We’re used to these movie ratings today, but from the mid-1930s to the 1960s, Hollywood followed the Hays code, which was pretty strict. It was named for Will Hays, the president of the Motion Picture ...

Mentorship is not a new hat for Judd Apatow -- after all, he's the guy who helped guide a then-unknown Lena Dunham and Girls to success. Lately though, he's only increased his efforts, with Pete ...

The process for certifying films runs in stages. An examining committee watches the film and makes a recommendation, after ...

Filmmakers such as Cannes' best screenplay-winner Jia Zhangke have been quick to question the ambiguities of the Chinese government's new screenplay approval process. By Clarence Tsui, Patrick Brzeski ...

About a week ago a friend of mine argued that Hammer horror movies were considered adult fare and were “rated accordingly,” which I knew was demonstrably wrong—at least in America for the first 11 ...

"Bleep! Censoring Hollywood" deserves not two thumbs up but two fingers in the eyes. (Get the Three Stooges in here!) If this namby-pamby documentary were 10 times as good as it is, it still wouldn't ...

A Kolkata film industry dispute erupted when an SRFTI student's feature film was barred from release due to technician ...

Anurag Kashyap said that he had a good conversation with the censor board members where they shared that are also working under prescribed rules.

In October 1958, Virginia was one of only four states that still required all motion pictures to be approved by a censorship board before being shown. (The board was created by the General Assembly in ...