Matt Talbot has been promoted to VP, executive creative director at CP+B Boulder. In his new position, Talbot will continue to focus on the Domino’s account, where he has played a significant role in the brand’s ongoing growth and success. In addition, he will also oversee creative leadership of the Hotels.com account under Ralph Watson, VP/chief creative officer, CP+B Boulder.
Talbot joined CP+B in August of 2009 as a copywriter on the Domino’s account and within his first six months with the agency, he had helped create the Pizza Turnaround campaign. After being responsible for many of CP+B’s most successful digital innovations and integrated campaigns for KRAFT Macaroni and Cheese, Domino’s and Vail Resorts, he became a creative director at the age of 28. During his tenure at the agency, Talbot was creative director on the Hotels.com pitch, which won the business for CP+B and introduced brand spokesperson Captain Obvious. For Domino’s, Talbot has led the creative on all U.S. work, including digital innovation for the brand and its e-commerce platforms, as well as the long running “Oh Yes We Did” campaign, which has led to 21 consecutive quarters of same store sales growth and helped grow Domino’s stock more than 1,300%. Talbot’s work on the creation of emoji ordering for Domino’s earlier this year received a Titanium Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions.
Review: Director James Watkins’ “Speak No Evil”
Quick. Has there ever been a horror film set in a country home with a decent cell signal?
Nope, and there's no signal at Paddy and Ciara's house, either, deep in the English countryside. Soon, that land line will be cut, too, but we're getting ahead of ourselves.
Paddy and Ciara are that fun-but-somewhat-odd British couple whom Louise and Ben, early in "Speak No Evil," meet on their idyllic Tuscan family holiday. Americans based in London, Louise and Ben are at loose ends, with both job and relationship issues. And so, when the new acquaintances write to invite them for a country weekend, they decide to go.
After all, how bad could it be?
Don't answer that. There are many such moments in the first two-thirds of "Speak No Evil," a Hollywood remake of the 2022 Danish film, here starring a deeply menacing James McAvoy. Moments where Louise and Ben, out of mere politeness and social convention, act against their instincts, which tell them something is wrong – very wrong.
Director James Watkins and especially his excellent troupe of actors, adult and children alike, do a nice job of building the tension, slowly but surely. Until all bloody hell breaks loose, of course. And then, in its third act, "Speak No Evil" becomes an entertaining but routine horror flick, with predictable results.
But for a while, it's a way more intelligent film. And the jumpy moments work — I'll confess to literally springing out of my seat when someone uneventfully turned on a power drill.
We begin in stunning Tuscany, where Louise (Mackenzie Davis, in the film's most accessible and empathetic performance) and Ben (Scoot McNairy, all nerves and insecurity) are vacationing with 11-year-old daughter Agnes (Alix West Lefler). At the pool, they... Read More