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Guest Editorial: Inoculating Your Film From COVID in Seven Steps February 11, 2021 07:30 | By Staff Intro by We’ve been covering the return to production quite heartily here at  Below the Line, and every once in a while something hits my inbox that seems perfectly attuned to what is on all of our minds, and that is how everyone can return to work safely with COVID-19 not seemingly going away any time soon. With that in mind, we’re sharing this piece from entertainment attorney Harris ...

Whats Happening with Disneys Hercules Remake from the Russo Brothers? Whats Happening with Disneys Hercules Remake from the Russo Brothers? Joe Russo says the Hercules live-action remake is still in development with a screenplay coming in in about a week. Dont worry, its still happening. Disneys live-action Hercules remake has gotten a promising new update from producers Joe and Anthony Russo. Last year, it was announced that the remake was in the works at Walt Disney Pictures with the Russo Br...

Now streaming on: When a classic is transferred to the present time and place, does the material travel well? Can it be reasonably taken from its world and transplanted in ours? Sometimes the transfer works, as when Ian McKellen played Richard III in a fascist 1930s Britain, and Gus Van Sant transmuted "Henry IV" into "My Own Private Idaho." Sometimes it does not, as in this attempt to take Chekhovs "Three Sisters" out of 1901 in Russia and place in the faculty club of a modern American univer...

email article Welcome to Ethics Consult -- an opportunity to discuss, debate (respectfully), and learn together. We select an ethical dilemma from a true, but anonymized, patient care case, and then we provide an experts commentary. Should a doctor report a patients allegations to the state medical board, despite her insistence that he not do so? Yes: 51% No: 49% Ethical norms and many state laws prohibit sexual relationships between healthcare providers and their patients. For instance...

100 Worst Comedies of All Time By Jacob Osborn, Stacker News On 1/16/21 at 8:00 AM EST The notion that terrible films are often funny for being so inept is certainly applicable in the sci-fi or horror genres. But how can the worst comedies be funny in their failure to be funny? Therein lies the paradox and the reason why bad comedies are usually just plain bad. Nevertheless, its been said that anything worth doing is worth doing badly—comedy is certainly no exception. With this in mind, St...

What happens when you die? That’s a question theologians, philosophers and academics have been asking for centuries. The afterlife is also one of the major themes in the 1991 film “Defending Your Life,” which stars Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep. Brooks, actually born Albert Einstein, is the son of comedian Harry Einstein and dancer Thelma Leeds. Born in Los Angeles and raised around Hollywood royalty with Milton Berle, Jack Benny and George Burns as frequent houseguests, Brooks quickly d...

Awfully Good: The Beastmaster with Tanya Roberts January 7, 2021 by:   Stars: Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn, John Amos After they burn down his home and murder his dog, a warrior with a deep connection to animals seeks revenge on those who wronged him. It’s like CONAN THE BARBARIAN meets DR. DOLITTLE meets JOHN WICK. The first half of the 1980s was packed with classic sword and sorcery movies: CONAN THE BARBARIAN, DRAGONSLAYER, HAWK THE SLAYER, and KRULL, just to name a few. And whil...

A recent survey indicated that most Americans believe in heaven and hell, and of those who believe, the overwhelming majority expect to find themselves in heaven after they die. Since many of them obviously deserve to go to the other place, if only for owning cars with burglar alarms that go off in the middle of the night, a movie like "Defending Your Life" makes perfect sense.

Robert Parigis "Love Object" tells the story of a painfully shy writer of software manuals, a man inhibited to the point of paralysis who discovers a Web site that sells realistic life-size love dolls. Kenneth (Desmond Harrington) is already a user of porn, frequenting a crypt-like adult shop that looks like the horror chamber at Madame Tussauds and seems to have the Elephant Man behind the cash register. Now he maxes out his line of credit to order Nikki, a custom-crafted mannequin made to his...

That movie is 20 years old? A look at films from 2000 Marc Bona, cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio – At the end of every year we reminisce about movies from two decades ago that still find their way onto cable channels and streaming services. And as you read the summary and see the year it’s easy to find yourself saying ‘Hey, I can’t believe that movie is 20 years old’. (Interestingly, Jim Caviezel, Helen Hunt, Jon Bon Jovi and Frances McDormand each appeared in more than ...