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MPAA

loaded question: what movies beyond ‘Mary Poppins’ deserve a rethink of their official ratings?

Mon, Feb 26, 2024
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What older movies might warrant a rethink, either to acknowledge their suitability to audiences of all ages or to restrict them to more discerning adults?

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A Dog’s Journey movie review: Does the Dog Die? The Movie

Thu, May 09, 2019
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Pure rerun of A Dog’s Purpose: Pooch Bailey returns again and again (again) in different bodies to love and serve his humans. A sappy tail, pleasantly daydreamy. I’m not crying you’re crying.

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do you want your ISP to block porn and other “objectionable” content automatically?

Mon, Dec 16, 2013
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Would you be embarrassed to call up your ISP and ask to opt-out, for the filter to be turned off? What other material would you worry would get caught up in such a filter?

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We’re the Millers greenband and redband trailers: a lesson in the MPAA’s twisted priorities

Wed, Jul 31, 2013
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Before you watch the redband trailer, can you guess what extra bits to be found there will be deemed too naughty for tender eyes and ears?

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Mama (trailer)

Tue, Jan 15, 2013
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Starring Golden Globe winner Jessica Chastain! And also Nordic god Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. So I’m there.

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just go ahead and download Neil Finn’s lovely Hobbit tune now (and other adventures in social networking)

Tue, Dec 11, 2012
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Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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question of the day: Is the NC-17 rating doomed?

Mon, Aug 20, 2012
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It seems to me that the problem isn’t with what the adults-only rating is called — the problem is how American culture deals with adults-only movies… ie, it doesn’t want to deal with them at all.

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Mad Men-inspired McDonalds uniforms (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Jul 13, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender talk Prometheus

Sun, May 20, 2012
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I promised to share a few of the juiciest tidbits from the Prometheus talent Q&A I attended last month. And here they are.

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what if the male Avengers posed like the female one? (and other adventures in social networking)

Mon, May 07, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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