Napper Tandy has joined Doner‘s Newport Beach, Calif., office as creative director, where he will oversee all creative content that comes out of the office, including work for Mazda, Del Taco and Roy’s Hawaiian Cuisine. In addition, Tandy will play a key role in the agency’s business development efforts. Tandy formerly served as a copywriter at Saatchi & Saatchi LA, Torrance, Calif., working on such accounts as Toyota (Tacoma, Tundra), Toyota Motorsports and Operation Hope….TBWA Worldwide has promoted Suzanne Powers to the new role of global strategy director, working across the TBWA network’s portfolio of MARS brands. In addition, she will be helping to develop strategic initiatives that will support all of TBWA’s global clients. Powers will work with global client, Mars, including the Pedigree, Whiskas, Dove and Twix brands, partnering with worldwide managing director for the Mars account, Patrick Collins. She will also continue to actively help develop and drive TBWA’s Disruption and Media Arts philosophies and best practices throughout the network. Powers joined TBWAChiatDay Los Angeles in 2000, as account planning director working with brands including Sara Lee, Mars, PlayStation and Visa. Making a move to the New York office, she continued working with Mars and expanded her client experience to include Absolut, Nivea and Hotels.com…..Veteran animation director Lesley Headrick has joined guru Studio, Toronto. She was most recently animation director on the Aardman Animation series Chop Socky Chooks….
Review: Director Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17” Starring Robert Pattinson
So you think YOUR job is bad?
Sorry if we seem to be lacking empathy here. But however crummy you think your 9-5 routine is, it'll never be as bad as Robert Pattinson's in Bong Joon Ho's "Mickey 17" — nor will any job, on Earth or any planet, approach this level of misery.
Mickey, you see, is an "Expendable," and by this we don't mean he's a cast member in yet another sequel to Sylvester Stallone's tired band of mercenaries ("Expend17ables"?). No, even worse! He's literally expendable, in that his job description requires that he die, over and over, in the worst possible ways, only to be "reprinted" once again as the next Mickey.
And from here stems the good news, besides the excellent Pattinson, whom we hope got hazard pay, about Bong's hotly anticipated follow-up to "Parasite." There's creativity to spare, and much of it surrounds the ways he finds for his lead character to expire — again and again.
The bad news, besides, well, all the death, is that much of this film devolves into narrative chaos, bloat and excess. In so many ways, the always inventive Bong just doesn't know where to stop. It hardly seems a surprise that the sci-fi novel, by Edward Ashton, he's adapting here is called "Mickey7" — Bong decided to add 10 more Mickeys.
The first act, though, is crackling. We begin with Mickey lying alone at the bottom of a crevasse, having barely survived a fall. It is the year 2058, and he's part of a colonizing expedition from Earth to a far-off planet. He's surely about to die. In fact, the outcome is so expected that his friend Timo (Steven Yeun), staring down the crevasse, asks casually: "Haven't you died yet?"
How did Mickey get here? We flash back to Earth, where Mickey and Timo ran afoul of a villainous loan... Read More