Fast forward to today’s standards, and films are still heavily censored, the ratings system is completely ... and yet a film cannot play its trailer in a theater unless it has been rated by the MPAA.

Inspired by Frankenstein, the horror-comedy Frankenhooker was given a very odd and unprecedented rating on release.

In 1990, Philip Kaufman released Henry & June, a film that forced the MPAA to create the NC-17 rating. The visually stunning ...

It reigned until 1968 when it was replaced by the movie rating system we know today. How familiar are you with the films and filmmakers that bucked these restrictive policies throughout the years?

Our analyses suggest that age-based and content-based rating information ... to suggest that the MPAA remains in the best position to perform these types of analyses since movie studios pay ...