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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Terminator: Genisys Will Likely Be PG-13
Slight disappointment coming from me (and other fans, I’m sure) as it’s been revealed the next installment of the Terminator franchise — which, ...
Rumor: Deadpool movie aiming for PG-13 rating
All right. Everyone calm down. I know we were all excited when we heard that the Deadpool movie was actually going to happen, ...
Looks like the new Godzilla film will not be so violent
It seems that the ratings have just come out for the latest Godzilla film and it is looking like it wont be as ...
Study shows PG-13 films are more violent than R films
You know what? PG-13 rated flicks get away with quite a bit as long as they refrain from using “f**k” more than once ...
RoboCop being shot for a PG-13 rating
Ever since the Robocop reboot script leaked things have been pretty dour for our half-human law enforcer. It’s just hard to get people excited ...
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Should kids be allowed into R-rated movies?
Sorry we’re a day late, folks, but festival season has officially kicked off and that makes scheduling everything else much more difficult. Next ...
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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 Evil Dead remake’s first cut received an NC-17 rating
News that I’m sure will please fans of everything blood and gore, director Fede Alvarez recently Tweeted that his first cut of the ...
Man of Steel steals a PG-13 rating…obviously
I hope you weren’t expecting too much “grittiness” from a Superman film. Superman has always been a good, clean hero and it looks like ...
A Good Day to Die Hard gets the ‘R’ rating it deserves!
One of the bones I had with John Moore’s upcoming A Good Day to Die Hard was that we were all fairly positive that ...
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 ...