Coral Garvey has come aboard Havas Worldwide’s NY office as head of art. She will report to Jason Musante, managing director and group executive creative director of Havas Worldwide NY. Previously, Garvey served as design director at Silver&Partners and throughout her career has worked with marquee brands such as Kate Spade, Nike, Motorola, Ben and Jerry’s, Samsung, Coca-Cola, Sephora, Levi’s, adidas and Google. Garvey was also one of Anomaly NY’s first creative hires. Her career highlights include serving as lead designer on the Converse brand re-launch and Cannes Grand Prix-winning “Be Stupid” campaign for Diesel….Entertainment branding and marketing innovations agency Troika, headed by founder/CEO Dan Pappalardo, has added live action director and creative director Richard D’Alessio. A commercial helmer with prominent Super Bowl ads to his credit, including “Cedric Date” for Bud Light, D’Alessio is also a creator of branded content series. He currently writes and directs TV promo, web and direct to brand campaigns worldwide for such clients as Volkswagen, Budweiser, Nintendo, Pepsi, Snickers, and General Motors, and TV networks such as Scripps, Showtime and Lifetime….World Famous, a creative collective of directors, designers, editors, writers and artists, has hired David Kleinman as EP and Kelly Green as head of production. Kleinman will be based in World Famous’ new L.A. studio, overseeing business development nationally, including commercials and long-form creative content, working with longtime EP Megan Ball in the Seattle market. Meanwhile Green will oversee creative operations out of World Famous’ Seattle headquarters. Kleinman was most recently managing director of entertainment marketing at mOcean. Green was EP at The New Blank, a motion design firm. She earlier served as a producer at Hal Riney & Partners, and a sr. producer at Publicis in the West….
Review: Writer-Directors Scott Beck and Bryan Wood’s “Heretic”
"Heretic" opens with an unusual table setter: Two young missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are discussing condoms and why some are labeled as large even though they're all pretty much a standard size. "What else do we believe because of marketing?" one asks the other.
That line will echo through the movie, a stimulating discussion of religion that emerges from a horror movie wrapper. Despite a second-half slide and feeling unbalanced, this is the rare movie that combines lots of squirting blood and elevated discussion of the ancient Egyptian god Horus.
Our two church members — played fiercely by Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East — are wandering around trying to covert souls when they knock on the door of a sweet-looking cottage. Its owner, Mr. Reed, offers a hearty "Good afternoon!" He welcomes them in, brings them drinks and promises a blueberry pie. He's also interested in learning more about the church. So far, so good.
Mr. Reed is, of course, if you've seen the poster, the baddie and he's played by Hugh Grant, who doesn't go the snarling, dead-eyed Hannibal Lecter route in "Heretic." Grant is the slightly bumbling, bashful and self-mocking character we fell in love with in "Four Weddings and a Funeral," but with a smear of menace. He gradually reveals that he actually knows quite a bit about the Mormon religion — and all religions.
"It's good to be religious," he says jauntily and promises his wife will join them soon, a requirement for the church. Homey touches in his home include a framed "Bless This Mess" needlepoint on a wall, but there are also oddities, like his lights are on a timer and there's metal in the walls and ceilings.
Writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Wood — who also... Read More