Crawl is going to be rated R, thank god
I’m very excited for Alexandre Aja’s Crawl. It’s been a while since we had an alligator horror movie to be excited about, and ...
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This year’s Academy Awards will be a complete disaster
I love to hate the Oscars, but I also hate that I love them. For the past several years I’ve had a tradition ...
Netflix joins the MPAA, corporate Voltron assembles
Netflix is a movie studio. Well, really they’re a content studio, but what’s clear is that they really aren’t a video rental/streaming service ...
MPAA celebrates 50 years of screwing up movie ratings
The Motion Picture Association of America, or MPAA, introduced a ratings system and censorship board in 1968 as a means for the industry ...
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The Rating Game: A Tale of Blood, Guts, and the MPAA
After the news broke that the first cut of Evil Dead received an NC-17 rating, Alec shot me a text suggesting I write ...
The MPAA doesn’t like joy, rates Prometheus R
It’s not officially announced, but looks like the MPAA has handed down an R rating of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Images of pre-sale ticket ...
The Dark Knight Rises rated PG-13
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises has been given a PG-13 by the MPAA for “intense sequences of violence and action, some sensuality and ...
AMC allowing children to see unrated Bully with parents
It feels thoroughly weird when the big corporate fatcats wind up being the good guys in a fight for once. On the heels ...
Bully getting an unrated release this Friday
You’ve probably noticed the ongoing struggle between the Weinstein Company and the dicks at the MPAA over the rating for the documentary Bully, ...
PG-13 and R-rated versions of The Wolverine a possibility
Hugh Jackman said there may be two versions of The Wolverine, one that’s PG-13 and one that’s rated R. “There is such great ...
Hangover 2 trailer apparently made of pure evil
Hey guys, Warner Bros. and the MPAA have a message for you! “Remove and DELETE THE HANGOVER PART II trailer #2. Warner Bros. ...