Showing posts with label bully. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bully. Show all posts

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Debating the 'Bully' Ratings Controversy


Earlier this week, I wrote about the brouhaha over the documentary Bully and its R rating. Matt Singer, who writes the Criticwire blog over at Indiewire, invited me to debate Salon's Andrew O'Hehir, who sees the issue differently than I do. Andrew and I both answered some of Matt's email questions, and you can see what we both had to say here. I think anyone who reads Andrew's and my articles and then reads our responses to each other will be struck by how much we see eye-to-eye on the general stupidity of the MPAA's ratings board -- we just differ on exactly what should be done (if anything) to fix the problem.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Harvey Weinstein and the Ratings Controversy Over 'Bully'


By and large, I don't care what movies are rated. I don't have kids, so it doesn't make a difference to me. But when I saw Bully, a new documentary about the affect of bullying on teens, I knew full well that it had been rated R and that its distributor, the Weinstein Company, was fighting it. The movie comes out on Friday, so I wrote at length over at Gawker about why I don't think it should be a controversy at all.