Finger Music is opening a New York office to complement its ongoing operations in Los Angeles and London. Creative director/owner Dave Hodge, who recently scored a Microsoft spot for Crispin Porter + Bogusky out of the Manhattan studio, will be splitting his time between both coasts to oversee the launch. He will be joined initially by managing director/partner John Murrell….New York-based brand entertainment shop Campfire has brought on Sean Ganaan as a creative director, working under Campfire exec creative director/co-founder Mike Monello (of Blair Witch fame). Ganaan most recently spent over a year at Anomoly as its digital creative director, and before that served in the same capacity at Saatchi Sydney. Ganaan will be focusing mainly on Campfire’s ongoing work with Verizon FIOS on its MyHome2.0 campaign which is now entering its second year (www.2pointhome.com). He will also work on new and incoming creative initiatives….. Argentine producer Jorge di Benedetto, previously a founding partner/executive producer at Peluca Films, and American director David Preizler have opened production services company Nube Pictures in Buenos Aires. The new venture just wrapped projects for Dektor Film Group via Ogilvy Chicago and Savant Film out of Euro RSCG….Editor Nicolas Stampe has joined Cut+Run, which maintains shops in the U.S. and U.K…..Jason Pasch has come aboard SmithGifford, a Falls Church, Va.-based ad agency, as new media designer. He will be responsible for web, Flash and blog design and other online production, and will work directly with Matt Smith and his partner Bruce Gifford. Pasch had been a web designer with EFX Media, Arlington, Va., and prior to that lead web designer at R+B Design Firm in Gathersburg, Md….
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