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What happened to the MPAA's adult-focused X rating? What was its purpose and why was it so infamous? Let's sneak a peek, shall we?

12 Feb 2021 Under the belief it was the movie that would most offend today’s Woketards, last week I wrote about the gloriously inappropriate and problematic Animal House (1978). Finding myself in a Belushi mood, a few days later, I watched his next hit, 1980’s The Blues Brothers, and quickly realized today’s Hitler Youth would hate this one even more — a whole lot more. You have no idea how blessed I was to come of age in the 70s and 80s, two of the freest decades, not only in our country’s history but in world history. By 1970, Hollywood’s self-censoring Production Code had bee...

Marlene Dietrich in the 1940s: The changing face of transgressive Hollywood As the films Marlene Dietrich made at Universal emerge on Blu-ray, Tamsin Cleary explores how the star’s transgressive image evolved under new management – and in changing times. 10 February 2021 The Spoilers (1942) Arriving in Hollywood at the dawn of the talkies, Marlene Dietrich had a seismic impact on American film. Having already made an international name for herself in Josef von Sternberg’s landmark The Blue Angel (1930), Dietrich then followed her director from the Weimar Republic to the Paramou...

Passing movies also tended to cast white actors in the roles of mixed-race characters who passed as white. But that wasn’t the case with the original version of Imitation of Life, made in 1934. Fredi Washington made history by being the first Black actress to play a character (“Peola”) who passes as white. Even more unusually, two Black children were cast to play the part of Peola at ages three and seven. The Production Code Administration (PCA), the industry’s self-censorship office, was roiled by director John Stahl’s casting choices. The PCA’s “voluminous” file on the film...

One 'Indian Jones' film was responsible for the creation of the PG-13 film rating. One 'Indian Jones' film was responsible for the creation of the PG-13 film rating.