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Film
A Beguiling Romance with a Twist
Phantom Thread courtesy of Focus Features.
Ryan Rojas
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Don’t Get Hacked! Time to
Get Serious about Password Safety
(BPT) - We all know hiding your house key
under the doormat is a terrible idea, but we do
it anyway because it’s a convenient backup.
When it comes to safeguarding passwords,
especially in a family setting, people often
choose convenience over safety.
As families manage their digital information
and online accounts, many end up opting for
that less secure key-under-the-doormat solution.
People are already sharing passwords, and
their methods of sharing are not always the
best. Some 41 percent of adults with online
accounts admit to sharing passwords with
friends and family, according to an Americans
and Cybersecurity survey by Pew Research
Center. Yet, 90.8 percent of respondents say
they know that having strong passwords helps
them better protect their families.
If you were to dig into the reasons behind
these repeated, overly simple, shared passwords,
it’s actually pretty understandable as to how
this happens,” according to LastPass Senior
Director of Product, Steve Schult. “The average
person has some 200-plus logins. If you were
to give each its own strong, unique password,
that’s way too many for one person to keep
track of and remember, let alone all the other
family members that might also use some of
those accounts.”
If you’re debating whether to make the
switch to a digital password manager, here’s
a few ways it can improve your family’s
online security and help stop the struggle
with passwords.
Create rock-solid passwords: Most password
managers offer a secure password generator
that allows you to set and create a long,
strong and unique password for every online
account. You can create a password up to
100 characters long, including numbers and
symbols. Another way to do it is by using
the “passphrase” approach, meaning string
together words that create a phrase. Be sure
to steer clear of birthdays, anniversaries,
street names and other specific personal
details that can be found through a simple
social media search.
Secure more than just passwords: There’s
an endless number of passwords and sensitive
information you can store in your password
manager, including banking logins, passport
and license numbers, shopping accounts,
email and social media passwords and more.
By storing all of this information in your
secure vault, you’ll always have access to
the information whenever and wherever you
may need it.
Safely share passwords with family
members: One benefit of a password manager
that’s designed for family use is that it lets
you safely and conveniently store passwords
and valuable documents in folders for flexible
sharing with others in the family. LastPass
Families includes unlimited shared folders,
which means you can create multiple folders
and store an endless number of passwords
and share with those in your family.
Use it as a teaching moment: Have a talk
with your kids about how passwords are
the keys to our digital lives, and how good
password habits help protect everything from
personal details to finances.
Plan for the digital afterlife: When there’s
a death or serious emergency, it turns
out that state and federal laws, along
with service agreements, can block
your family from getting access to your
online accounts. With a password
manager that allows emergency access,
family members can get into your
password vault and have access to
whatever they need. •
Seniors
By Ryan Rojas for www.cinemacy.
com
Love can be quite intoxicating. So can Paul
Thomas Anderson movies. Anderson’s natural
cinephile sensibilities have allowed him to
make some of the very best films of all time.
Seemingly drawing straight from the well of pure
cinema, his films are dazzling masterpieces that
seep deeply into the audiences’ subconscious
and only get better the more they are thought
about over time.
Set in the high-fashion world of post-war
London, Phantom Thread is the story of an
obsessive dressmaker (Daniel Day-Lewis) and
the woman he meets who tames him--until a
rocky disruption ensues that forces each to
see how essential they are to the other. An
absolutely gorgeous work and a rich feast for
the eyes, this period piece is one that deserves
to be seen on the big screen.
One thing that separates Phantom Thread from
Anderson’s other films is that it’s Anderson
himself who’s behind the camera for this
movie. Here he assumes director of photography
duties as well as directing. When you’re able
to operate the camera, pick the lenses and
make your own lighting decisions, you are
exacting full control to execute your vision,
as he does here.
Reginald Woodcock (Day-Lewis) knows a
thing or two about the necessity of control
when it comes to creating his works of art.
And with that comes his need for perfection,
irritable if otherwise. Mercilessly meticulous
in realizing his vision, it’s his sister Cyril
(Lesley Manville) who takes to tempering his
frustrations while she helps him run the business.
Woodcock may in fact be the character that
most closely mirrors Anderson himself--the
commentary on his own artistic sensibilities
(and shortcomings) as a perfectionist auteur.
He shows that creating such beautiful pieces
often comes from a joyless place.
This makes the introduction of Alma (Vicky
Krieps) one that inspires Woodcock. He has
had other muses before. One is seen before
the arrival of Alma, but it’s Alma whom we
find is his match and whose presence in his
life of consuming routine and ritual slowly
frays at the seams. Woodcock tries to live his
life of narcissistic vanity in his undisturbed
artistry, but Alma disrupts this vision before
the movie reveals its screwball story that
forces Reginald and Alma to realize how
much they need each other.
His most reduced story yet, Phantom
Thread is carried by the beguiling
performances of the two lovers. The
performance that Day-Lewis exacts as
Woodcock in control and restraint is as
exacted as any craftsman. If we are to believe
his statement that this is indeed his final
screen performance, then it is a fantastic
one to leave behind. Vicky Krieps as Alma
is a presence that can suck the air right out
of a room, her face communicating exactly
what she’s thinking.
The allure of a PTA film is that there is
always more than meets the eye. Interestingly,
this is a detail that is manifested in the film.
Woodcock sews names and words into the
linings of his pieces, blesses them or just
a creates a sneaky secret that no one will
ever know. These codes can leave any critic
endlessly intrigued.
Phantom Thread turns out to be a phantom
of a film itself, leaving a mysterious and lasting
impression that will continue to occupy the
mind long after its watch. Creeping darkness
and growing tension make this love story
one that will sit quite well next to its peers.
Phantom Thread is 130 minutes. Rated R
for language. Now playing at the Landmark
and ArcLight Hollywood. •
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