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From blood splatter to studio politics, director James McTeigue sits down with us to talk about Ninja Assassin and his forthcoming Poe murder mystery The Raven.

Robert Fure, agent of the devil, wants to corrupt your children by not letting you know the full range of dangers contained in the films you watch. Burn him at the stake or just warm up the tar and pluck the feathers?

It would appear as if Brüno, the popular character from the Sacha Baron Cohen arsenal who is about to get his own movie, has finally found a way to be a bit too dirty.

Kevin Smith’s next film might not hit theaters until Halloween, but that certainly hasn’t stopped people from talking about it. We’ve got a feeling that it has something to do with it having the word ‘porno’ in the title.

Quantum of Solace becomes the latest in a long line of bloody, messy Bond movies to get a free pass from the MPAA.

At Film School Rejects, we like to have the final word, even when we’re arguing with ourselves. Although mostly, we just like to yell the loudest. This week’s point of contention: The MPAA.

Max Payne has been hit with an ‘R’ rating by the Motion Picture Association of America, and director John Moore is more than a little irked.

Kevin Smith may have won the war a few weeks ago when he successfully appealed his new film’s rating from an ‘NC-17′ to a commercially viable ‘R’, but he’s apparently lost the battle.

The official word is coming in today that director Kevin Smith has won an appeal with the MPAA to lower the rating of his upcoming film Zack and Miri Make a Porno from NC-17 to R.

Kevin Smith has never been one to make a discreet film. Even a romantic comedy like Chasing Amy had Jason Lee introducing a child to bestiality magazines.

It appears that that the ratings board of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is on the warpath once again, using their strong liberal bias to limit the amount of sex between a man and a woman that appears in movie theaters across the country.

News Askew has reported that the teaser trailer for the film that stars Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks, has suddenly disappeared. When Kevin Smith was asked why this happened, his response got a pretty good chuckle out of me.

Something has been happening in Hollywood over the past few years, and some people are really getting their noses out of joint about it: PG-13ification of American cinema.

“Now I have access to tons of bandwidth on my campus network. Now I can illegally download movies that I can’t afford to go see in theaters thanks to Astrive student loans!”

This is a chord everyone can hear, because it rings true to all ears – unless they belong to an executive at a studio.

The recent furor over who was in control of the Hitman project and what rating it was going to get brought to light the lengths a studio will go to in order to ensure profitability of a movie.