Liz Perle on Marketing PG-13 Movies to Younger Kids
Liz Perle of Common Sense Media has a column on Huffington Post takes on the hypocrisy of the MPAA ratings board. Chair Joan Graves says that PG-13 films may carry parental advisory reminders that they...
View ArticleDoctor Group Objects to Smoking in Movies for Kids
USA Today has a story about smoking in movies: A new study by the American Medical Association Alliance, the volunteer branch of the AMA, finds that over the past six years more than half of the movies...
View ArticleBreitbart Documentary Delayed Over Dispute with MPAA on the F-Word
A new documentary, "Hating Breitbart," has delayed its release as the producers argue with the MPAA Ratings Board over the "f-word." According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film about the late...
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MPAA Head Chris Dodd Speaks at the National Press Club
Yesterday Chris Dodd, head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), spoke at the National Press Club, which prepared movie poster cookies in his honor. As a member of the club who writes...
View ArticleMPAA’s New Check the Box Ratings
The MPAA ratings board announced some new "check the box" enhancements to the movie ratings system to give parents better and clearer information about the content of the movies, along with an ad...
View ArticleWhat Happened to the G Rating?
I'm quoted in this NBC article about the MPAA ratings system and the disappearance of the G-rated movie. "The G rating has all but disappeared from theatrical releases other than one or two animated...
View ArticleAn R Rating for Being Gay?
"Love is Strange," a tender, beautifully written and performed love story about a three decade relationship, stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina. The MPAA has given the movie an R rating even though...
View ArticleDoes PG-13 Mean Anything Anymore?
The Washington Post has an article about a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics, "Parental Desensitization to Violence and Sex in Movies," with some disturbing conclusions about parents'...
View ArticleMPAA Ratings #Fail on “Horrible Bosses 2″
In yet another example of the inadequacy and the deliberate obfuscation of the MPAA ratings systems, we have the ratings for both the theatrical release of "Horrible Bosses 2" and the upcoming unrated...
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