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30-year movie reviewer Chris Hicks explores the history of the movie rating system, the inconsistency in the ratings, and shares advice on how to make better choices in your family¿s movie entertainment.
List of contents
- The more things change, the more they stay the same.
- Hollywood Censors Itself
- The MPAA and CARA respond to criticisms
- Are R ratings always deserved?
- PG-13 rapidly becomes R-Lite
- The PG rating, an endangered species
- The G Rating, on the verge of extinction
- After two decades CARA attempts to explain itself
- Filmmakers and studios - what in the world are they thinking?
- Traversing the Hollywood morass
- Hollywood still makes good movies in spite of itself
- The future of movies is not all downhill
About the author
Chris Hicks has been writing about movies for the
Deseret News in Salt Lake City for more than thirty years, and during that time also spent thirteen years reviewing films for KSL TV and radio. Now retired, he continues to write a weekly entertainment column and home-video reviews for the
Deseret News. Chris and his wife Joyce live in Holladay, Utah, and have a combined family of twelve children and thirty-plus grandchildren, all of whom love movies.
Summary
30-year movie reviewer Chris Hicks explores the history of the movie rating system, the inconsistency in the ratings, and shares advice on how to make better choices in your family’s movie entertainment.
