Things generally move swiftly in Hollywood. Promising new television series are canceled after two episodes. Much-hyped A-list movies are made or broken with their opening weekends. And yet, a ...

Content Warning: The following article contains discussions of sexual abuse, rape, pedophilia, drug use, and gun violence.Most film directors try to avoid the dreaded NC-17 rating like the plague. It ...

Last month, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) gave out director Ira Sachs’s new film Passages an NC-17 rating. As noted by the Los Angeles Times, which first reported on the rating, NC-17 was ...

The NC-17-rated "Killer Joe" runs wildly and deliberately off the rails in the last act, but until then it's about the nastiest, funniest pulp film in a good while, with menace and treachery bubbling ...

A detail of the trailer for Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe film Blonde that may surprise some viewers is the NC-17 rating at the end. The film is clearly artistically shot, and seems to have an intense, ...

Jeremy has more than 2000 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Director Chris Columbus revealed that because of Williams' improv they had "three or four versions of the film" including material for an R-rated version. But this version will never see the light of ...

Ana de Armas is confused over the NC-17 rating given to her upcoming Netflix movie, "Blonde," about the life of Marylin Monroe. The Motion Picture Association of America typically gives a film an ...

Movies rated NC-17 typically don’t fare well at the box office, as the restricted rating usually suggests pornographic-style sexual situations (and, occasionally, graphic violence. That’s why many of ...