Reality entertainment articles
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Gaslight at 80, or his and hers realities
1944 signaled a high-water mark for film noir with the release of Double Indemnity. The film codified elements that we now think of as genre tropes: the detective delivering backstory via voiceover, the shadows of Venetian blinds on the wall. But, really, Double Indemnity is Barbara Stanwyck’s film; her Phyllis Dietrichson, the femme fatale to end all femme fatales, seduces a detective and gets him to help her bump off her husband. If there was ever a role Stanwyck was going to win a competitive...
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When images become reality
Early this week, a fake video of President Marcos went viral on a popular streaming platform. It showed the president purportedly directing the country’s armed forces to counter China’s
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Energy and Transition Realities
The energy transition as a concept is itself in need of a transition. We must move beyond the blinkered view that this is about substituting...