Movie ratings are strange, and every country has a different rating system and different things that the people behind that system take into account when it comes to deciding a movie’s rating. There ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

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 ...

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 ...