Karen Monahan has joined BBH New York as head of interactive production. Her background includes leading teams at both large and small agencies, with expertise in campaign work for web and mobile, Flash multi-player games as well as major brand global relaunches and e-commerce experiences. Prior to joining BBH she served in such roles as managing director of Perfect Fools New York, director of production at Big Spaceship, and executive producer/senior account lead at R/GA….R&R Partners, Las Vegas, has brought creative director Doug Finelli and associate creative director Steve Andrews on board. Finelli joins the R&R team headed by group creative director Arnie DiGeorge that oversees the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority account and the “What happens here, stays here” brand. His background includes stays at Publicis, DMB&B, Ogilvy & Mather and Dentsu. Meanwhile Andrews will manage creative development for such R&R clients as Wynn Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Andrews comes to R&R from Publicis, Seattle where he served as senior art director from concept to production on T-Mobile’s multi-million dollar cross-platform promotional campaigns, along with work for Hewlett Packard, Real Networks and Washington Lottery. Prior to this, he was with Atlanta-based West Wayne…..Noted audio post mixer David Gerbosi has joined Another Country, Chicago. He comes over from Chicago Recording Company where he’s spent most of his mixing career. Over the years, Gerbosi has mixed and sound designed more than 75 Super Bowl commercials….Animator Jessica Plummer, who had been freelancing, has joined Calabash Animation, Chicago….
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