Aaron Stoller of Biscuit Filmworks directed this spot for BBDO New York in which Oklahoma City Thunder teammates Russell Westbrook and James Harden chill out at a party. Westbrook inadvertently splats some mustard on Harden’s Foot Locker shirt but not to worry–Harden tears away his full outfit, shirt and pants to reveal another clean set of official Foot Locker attire underneath.
This piques Westbrook’s curiosity as he again, this time intentionally, splatters some mustard on Harden’s garb who indeed likes to keep his apparel fresh, breaking away the outer garments to reveal yet another Foot Locker approved outfit.
Finally Westbrook counters with his can’t miss move, spraying Harden’s beard with mustard. Again Harden is equal to the challenge, revealing that he too also a tear-away beard, under which resides another clean, neatly manicured beard.
“Tear Away” is one of three spots in Foot Locker’s new “Approved” campaign with NBA All-Stars Harden, Westbrook, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh and Kevin Love. The commercials center on the fantastical lengths these guys will go to keep their Foot Locker Approved gear fresh.
Review: Director Tyler Spindel’s “Kinda Pregnant”
We have by now become accustomed to the lengths some movie characters will go to keep a good comedy lie going. But it's still a special kind of feat when Amy Schumer, playing a baby-mad single woman who fakes a baby bump in "Kinda Pregnant," is so desperate to maintain the fiction that she shoves a roast turkey up her dress.
You might be thinking: This is too ridiculous. The stuffing, alone. But if we bought "Some Like it Hot" and "Mrs. Doubtfire," I see no reason to quibble with the set-up of "Kinda Pregnant," a funny and often perceptive satire on motherhood, both real and pretend.
"Kinda Pregnant," which debuted Wednesday on Netflix, is a kinda throwback comedy. Like "40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Wedding Crashers," you can basically get the movie just from its title.
But like any good high-concept comedy, "Kinda Pregnant" is predominantly a far-fetched way for its star and co-writer, Schumer, to riff frankly on her chosen topic. Here, that's the wide gamut of pregnancy experience โ the body changes, the gender reveal parties, the personal jealousies โ all while mixing in a healthy amount of pseudo-pregnant pratfalls.
It's been a decade since Schumer was essentially launched as a movie star in the 2015 Judd Apatow-directed "Trainwreck." But "Kinda Pregnant," which Schumer wrote with Julie Paiva, almost as adeptly channels Schumer's comic voice โ the one that made the sketch series "Inside Amy Schumer" so great.
The movie's opening flashes back to Lainey (Schumer) as a child playing with dolls and imagining herself a mother-to-be. So committed is she to the role that Lainey, in mock-labor, screams at her friend and then politely apologies: "Sorry, but the expectant mother often lashes out at her support system."
But as... Read More