This is the fifth part of an eight-part series about American movie ratings. 

Part 1 focused on Prano Baily-Bond’s “Censor”. Part 2 focused on Mike Nichols’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”. Part 3 focused on Brian DePalma’s “Greetings”. Part 4 focused on Gordon Flemyng’s “The Split”.

Future episodes will focus on Garry Marshall’s “The Flamingo Kid” (1984), John McNaughton’s “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” (1986), and Philip Kaufmans’s “Henry & June” (1990).

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Referenced media:

• “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
• “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (Steven Spielberg, 1989)
• “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (Steven Spielberg, 2008)
• “The Most Dangerous Game” (Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1932)
• “Thor” (Kenneth Branagh, 2011)
• “The Goonies” (Richard Donner, 1985)
• “Head of the Class” (Michael Elias and Richard Eustis, 1986-1991)
• “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (Danial Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, 2022)
• “Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi” (Robert Guenette, 1983)
• “The Making of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Frank Marshall, 1984)
• “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
• “Splash” (Ron Howard, 1984)
• “Clash of the Titans” (Desmond Davis, 1981)
• “Entertainment Tonight” (Al Masini, 1981-now)
• “Police Academy” (Hugh Wilson, 1984)
• “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes” (Hugh Hudson, 1984)
• “Romancing the Stone” (Robert Zemeckis, 1984)
• “The Bounty” (Roger Donaldson, 1984)
• “Mutiny on the Bounty” (Frank Lloyd, 1935)
• “Sixteen Candles” (John Hughes, 1984)
• “Ghostbusters” (Ivan Reitman, 1984)
• “Gremlins” (Joe Dante, 1984)
• “The Karate Kid” (John G. Avildsen, 1984)
• “Conan the Destroyer” (Richard Fleischer, 1984)
• “The Last Starfighter” (Nick Castle, 1984)
• “Purple Rain” (Albert Magnoli, 1984)
• “Red Dawn” (John Milius, 1984)
• “A Passage to India” (David Lean, 1984)

Best Picture Winner, really?

"The smiles you'll gather / Will look well on you / Oh, I hope you're Going My Way too."

This is the fourth part of an eight-part series about American movie ratings. 

Part 1 focused on Prano Baily-Bond’s “Censor”. Part 2 focused on Mike Nichols’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”. Part 3 focused on Brian DePalma’s “Greetings”.

Future episodes will focus on Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (1984), Garry Marshall’s “The Flamingo Kid” (1984), John McNaughton’s “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer” (1986), and Philip Kaufmans’s “Henry & June” (1990).

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Referenced media:

• “Marty” (Delbert Mann, 1955)
• “Star Wars Holiday Special” (Steve Binder, 1978)
• “The Dirty Dozen” (Robert Aldrich, 1967)
• “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
• “Shaft” (Gordon Parks, 1971)
• “Superfly” (Gordon Parks, Jr., 1972)
• “M*A*S*H” (Robert Altman, 1970)
• “The French Connection” (William Friedkin, 1971)
• “Black Sunday” (John Frankenheimer, 1977)
• “Bonnie and Clyde” (Arthur Penn, 1967)
• “Julia” (Hal Kanter, 1968-1971)
• “Rocky” (John G. Avildsen, 1976)
• “Bamse” (Arne Mattsson, 1968)
• “The Night of the Assassin” (Adriano Bolzoni, 1970)
• “Coogan’s Bluff” (Don Siegel, 1968)
• “Bullitt” (Peter Yates, 1968)
• “Ice Station Zebra” (John Sturges, 1968)
• “Hellfighters” (Andrew V. McLaglen, 1968)
• “Where Eagles Dare” (Brian G. Hutton, 1968)
• “Hell in the Pacific” (John Boorman, 1968)”
• “Assignment to Kill” (Sheldon Reynolds, 1968)
• “Riot” (Buzz Kulik, 1969)

His weapon was his humanity.

This is the third part of an eight-part series about American movie ratings. 

Part 1 focused on Prano Baily-Bond’s "Censor". Part 2 focused on Mike Nichols’s "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".

Future episodes will focus on Gordon Flemyng’s "The Split" (1968), Steven Spielberg’s "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984), Garry Marshall’s "The Flamingo Kid" (1984), John McNaughton’s "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" (1986), and Philip Kaufmans’s "Henry & June" (1990).

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Referenced media:

• "Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf?" (Mike Nichols, 1966)
• "Red Dawn" (John Milius, 1984)
• "This Savage Land" (Vincent McEveety, 1969)
• "Assignment to Kill" (Sheldon Reynolds, 1968)
• "Payment in Blood" (Enzo G. Castellari, 1968)
• "Birds in Peru" (Romain Gary, 1968)
• "Planet of the Apes" (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
• "2001: A Space Odyssey" (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
• "Night of the Living Dead" (George A. Romero, 1968)
• "Barbarella" (Roger Vadim, 1968)
• "The Girl on a Motorcycle" (Jack Cardiff, 1968)
• "Head" (Bob Rafelson, 1968)
• "Yellow Submarine" (George Dunning, 1968)
• "Faces" (John Cassavetes, 1968)
• "The Great Silence" (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)
• "Sympathy for the Devil" (Jean-Luc Godard, 1968)
• "Candy" (Christian Marquand, 1968)
• "The Night They Raided Minsky’s" (William Friedkin, 1968)
• "The Wrecking Crew" (Phil Karlson, 1968)
• "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)
• "Three in the Attic" (Richard Wilson, 1968)
• "Pumping Iron" (George Butler and Robert Fiore, 1977)
• "Blowup" (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)
• "Mean Streets" (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
• "Hi, Mom!" (Brian DePalma, 1970)
• "C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D." (David Irving, 1989)
• "Phantom of the Paradise" (Brian DePalma, 1974)
• "Shadows" (John Cassavetes, 1959)
• "Fritz the Cat" (Ralph Bakshi, 1972)
• "Beverly Hills Cop II" (Tony Scott, 1987)
• "Breathless" (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
• "Laugh-In" (George Schlatter, 1968-1973)
• "Saturday Night Live" (Lorne Michaels, 1975-now)
• "Deep Throat" (Gerard Damiano, 1972)
• "Behind the Green Door" (Artie Mitchell and Jim Mitchell, 1972)
• "Midnight Cowboy" (John Schlesinger, 1969)
• "Superfly" (Gordon Parks, Jr., 1972)
• "Across 110th Street" (Barry Shear, 1972)
• "Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song" (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)

This is the second part of an eight-part series about American movie ratings. 

Part 1 focused on Prano Baily-Bond’s "Censor". 

Future episodes will focus on Brian DePalma’s "Greetings" (1968), Gordon Flemyng’s "The Split" (1968), Steven Spielberg’s "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984), Garry Marshall’s "The Flamingo Kid" (1984), John McNaughton’s "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" (1986), and Philip Kaufmans’s "Henry & June" (1990).

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Referenced media:

• "High School Confidential" (Jack Arnold, 1958)
• "Leave It to Beaver" (Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, 1957-63)
• "Cleopatra" (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963)
• "Look Who’s Talking" (Amy Heckerling, 1989)
• "The Flintstones" (Brian Levant, 1994)
• "National Velvet" (Clarence Brown, 1944)
• "A Place in the Sun" (George Stevens, 1951)
• "American Pie" (Paul Weitz, 1999)
• "Gone with the Wind" (Victor Fleming, 1939)
• "The Best Years of Our Lives" (William Wyler, 1946)
• "Avengers: Endgame" (Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, 2019)
• "Titanic" (James Cameron, 1997)
• "Au Hazard Balthazar" (Robert Bresson, 1966)
• "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming" (Norman Jewison, 1966)
• "Endless Summer" (Bruce Brown, 1966)
• "Torn Curtain" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1966)
• "War and Peace Part II" (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1966)
• "The Wild Angels" (Roger Corman, 1966)
• "Batman" (Leslie H. Martinson, 1966)
• "Alfie" (Lewis Gilbert, 1966)
• "Fantastic Voyage" (Richard Fleischer, 1966)
• "Persona" (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
• "Blowup" (Michaelangelo Antonioni, 1966)

This is the first part of an eight-part series about American movie ratings. 

Part 1 focuses on Prano Bailey-Bond’s 2021 slasher movie "Censor", as an introduction to censorship, generally.

Future episodes will focus on Mike Nichols’s "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), Brian DePalma’s "Greetings" (1968), Gordon Flemyng’s "The Split" (1968), Steven Spielberg’s "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" (1984), Garry Marshall’s "The Flamingo Kid" (1984), John McNaughton’s "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" (1986), and Philip Kaufmans’s "Henry & June" (1990).

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Referenced media:

• "Time Bandits" (Terry Gilliam, 1981)
• "Saturday Night Live" (Lorne Michaels, 1975-now)
• "The Last House on the Left" (Wes Craven, 1972)
• "I Spit on Your Grave" (Meir Zarchi, 1978)
• "Friday the 13th" series (Sean S. Cunningham et al., 1980-now)
• "The Blair Witch Project" (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, 1999)
• "Irréversible" (Gaspar Noé, 2002)
• "Spiral" (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2021)
• "A Quiet Place Part II" (John Krasinski, 2020)
• "The Forever Purge" (Everardo Valerio Gout, 2021)
• "Old" (M. Night Shyamalan, 2021)
• "Saw" series (James Wan et al. 2004-now)
• "Roundhay Garden Scene" (Louis Le Prince, 1888)
• "The Kiss" (William Heise, 1896)

"Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God."

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa catch up to the zeitgeisty hit of 2019 and reel-in a real whopper.