Rebecca Stambanis has joined Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, Ore., as global planning director on the Nike account. Stambanis spent the past three years as deputy head of brand strategy at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, where she led and managed strategic planning on accounts such as Nintendo, Comcast, Haagen Dazs, The Commonwealth Bank and Dreyers…..Art director Sam Dallyn has come aboard R/GA London. He will oversee the strategy and development of integrated digital design projects for London's Nike account. He will also collaborate with R/GA's New York-based Nike team. Dallyn reports to both James Temple, R/GA London's executive creative director, and Lucio Rufo, who was recently promoted to the office's new design director. Prior to joining R/GA, Dallyn served as an art director at London digital agency Blast Radius, which focuses on customer experiences and social marketing….Fluid, a New York-based editorial, visual effects and original music studio, has added editor Micah Scarpelli to its roster. Prior to Fluid, he was with Cutting Room, and the now defunct Version2….
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