In an era of repressive sexual politics, one filmmaker is calling out the MPAA for slapping her lesbian romance with an NC-17 rating. Director Anita Doran is outraged that her film Maya & Samar, which ...

The post Joaquin Phoenix Exits NC-17 Gay Romance Film After Getting “Cold Feet” appeared first on Consequence. Joaquin Phoenix has exited out an upcoming gay romance film directed by Todd Haynes just ...

Director Anita Doron blasted the “shocking” decision by the MPAA to slap an NC-17 rating on “Maya & Samar,” an Athens-set romantic drama about the torrid affair between a Canadian journalist and a ...

Queer film fans are still pissed at Joaquin Phoenix for getting cold feet over an NC-17 gay romance he was set to star in, reportedly dropping out five days before the shoot began, leaving acclaimed ...

Joaquin Phoenix is quickly learning: You can’t ghost the gays without catching some heat. Last last week, news broke that the Oscar-winning actor got cold feet over an untitled “explicit gay romance” ...

The line between R and NC-17 has always been a moving target, an arbitrary threshold that often reflects moral panic more than genuine concern. For decades, filmmakers have found themselves in battles ...

Oct. 18, 2010 — -- Blue Valentine, an already critically-acclaimed film generating Oscar buzz, won't be released until the end of the year, and if the MPAA gets its way, it likely won't be ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...