Lisa Effress, formerly of TBWAChiatDay, Los Angeles, has joined Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Boulder, Colo., as senior integrated video producer. At TBWAChiatDay she headed broadcast and digital productions for such brands as Gatorade, Visa and PlayStation. Prior to TBWAChiatDay, Effress spent seven years in Minneapolis producing the Target broadcast campaign….Chad Stoller is transferring from Organic to BBDO as executive VP, director of digital strategy, BBDO North America….Bicoastal Post Logic Studios, a division of Prime Focus Group, has brought Kevin Wilson and Mick O’Connor aboard as audio engineer and manager, new business, respectively. Both will be based at Post Logic’s New York facility. Veteran artisan Wilson joins Post Logic from DuArt Film & Video in New York, where his clients included ABC, Cartoon Network, HBO and PBS. Meanwhile O’Connor most recently spent nine years as managing director & VP of sales at Devlin Video International in New York….
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