Ira Sachs' "Passages" is the latest film to be slapped by the MPA with an NC-17. But is the 33-year-old rating a useful designation or just a scarlet letter? He’s totally right, of course. Yet in the ...

According to Matthew Modine, his "The Dark Knight Rises" character, Deputy Commissioner Foley, died a violent death that ...

Movies rated NC‑17 often face steep hurdles — limited theaters willing to show them, reduced advertising opportunities, and public hesitation. Yet, a handful of NC‑17 films defied those obstacles and ...

Another year brings another NC-17 controversy at the movies. This time it’s for “Passages,” the acclaimed romance drama from Ira Sachs that earned strong reviews out of the Sundance Film Festival ...

In an era of repressive sexual politics, one filmmaker is calling out the MPAA for slapping her lesbian romance with an NC-17 rating. Director Anita Doran is outraged that her film Maya & Samar, which ...

Director Anita Doron blasted the “shocking” decision by the MPAA to slap an NC-17 rating on “Maya & Samar,” an Athens-set romantic drama about the torrid affair between a Canadian journalist and a ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

In case you weren’t tipped off by the title, Lars Von Trier’s upcoming film Nymphomaniac features a lot of sex. The Danish director’s much-buzzed about movie is billed as “the wild and poetic ...

A look at some famous ratings decisions by the MPAA -- and the myth of "Midnight Cowboy." By THR Staff Harvey Weinstein wins an appeal to overturn the NC-17 rating -- given for an oral sex scene -- ...

The Palme d'Or winner at Cannes this year, Blue Is the Warmest Color, is just fine with the NC-17 it received in America: its 10-minute lesbian sex scene has been the most discussed portion of the ...

Oct. 18, 2010 — -- Blue Valentine, an already critically-acclaimed film generating Oscar buzz, won't be released until the end of the year, and if the MPAA gets its way, it likely won't be ...