trailer break: ‘For Colored Girls’

I’ll be curious to see if Tyler Perry’s audience, which has come out in droves for his idiotic mishmashes of slapstick and melodrama, will come out again for a film that actually attempts to be a film, one with some actual ambitions and with something meaningful to say…

question of the day: What if we abolished the MPAA?

The latest fracas involving the MPAA — the board that rates films for release in the United States — concerns the indie Blue Valentine, which has received an NC-17 rating for its sexual content, which is actually fairly minimal and mostly not terribly, you know, sexy. The film does, however, feature an instance of a man pleasuring a woman orally…