R-Rated Movies That Went Too Far
R-Rated Movies That Went Too Far United Artists
By Douglas Laman/May 14, 2021 3:00 pm EDT
R-rated films are supposed to push your buttons. With the freedom to deliver a truckload of language, blood, nudity, and drug use, you can provide all kinds of provocative material. Sometimes, this results in movies like Deadpool or The Matrix, where the ribald or violent material pleases moviegoers across the planet. Other R-rated titles are in the vein of Sorry to Bother You or Revenge and use the flexibility of an R-rating to tell boundary-pushing stories that speak to real-world injustices.
The 30 Best Animated Movies on Netflix, According to Critics
On 5/11/21 at 7:00 AM EDT
Animated movies have grown up in recent decades and cartoons status now rivals those of their live-action counterparts.
Whether you are looking for arthouse anime or a super-slick CGI, Netflix has cartoon movies covered on its dedicated genre, via code
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The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021)
A girl begins a road trip with her family to start film school when the robot apocalypse arrives.
Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus states: Eye-catching and energetic,
The Mitchells vs the Machines delivers a funny, feel-good story that the whole family can enjoy.
These Are the 100 Best 90s Movies
By Jason Kessler, Stacker News
On 5/3/21 at 8:00 PM EDT
The 1990s represent a magical decade in pop culture history. The O.J. Simpson trial, gangster rap, Must See TV, grunge music, and
Friends dominated water cooler conversations, while the internet was just beginning to grab the attention of the world and hit college computer labs. While all of this was happening, incredible movies from big-budget blockbusters to quiet love stories were being released nearly every weekend at movie theaters around the world. Advances in computer-generated imagery gave audiences both the scariest dinosaurs they d ever seen (
At the start of her eighth grade year, Heather was struggling. She was insecure, and lonely, and she wasn’t getting along with her mom. She worried that she wasn’t popular enough, or attractive enough, and that she’d never have a boyfriend. These insecurities were hard to talk about. The one place she felt comfortable expressing them was in Mr. Bailey’s English class.
By 1998, when Heather entered eighth grade, the 35-year-old Blake Bailey was already a legend at Lusher Extension, a magnet middle school in New Orleans. A published author, he was funny, charismatic, and academically demanding. In his yearbook photo, he looked like an eager preppy, with dark hair parted to the side and a loosely knotted tie. In 2000, he’d be named Louisiana’s Humanities Teacher of the Year.
Billy Crystal Never Got the Call to Return as Oscars Host, and He s Okay with That
Billy Crystal Never Got the Call to Return as Oscars Host, and He s Okay with That
Billy Crystal explains why being an Oscars host is so tricky in today s social and polictical climate.
The most politically fraught part of the Oscars these days seems to be the choice of a host. Whoever ends up hosting is seen as a representative of the whole American film industry to the entire world, and every aspect of their personal beliefs and public statements are dissected and examined on social media. Naturally, a lot of people who get asked to host are reluctant to take up the responsibility.