Today’s batch of MPAA ratings brings R-ratings for Wes Anderson‘s next film, The Grand Budapest Hotel and a strong R for Jonathan Glazer‘s Under The Skin, which features a naked Scarlett Johansson, though I’m not sure the description of “graphic nudity” is entirely accurate. The film doesn’t yet have a domestic release date, but it will land in Germany on March 6 and in the UK on March 14. You can read my review from Toronto right here.
In less “seedy” news, Akiva Goldsman‘s Winter’s Tale starring Russell Crowe, Colin Farrell and Jessica Brown Findlay scored a PG-13 and Fox’s 3D animated feature Walking With Dinosaurs gets a PG.
We also have a film changing ratings on appeal as the Weinsteins won their case with the appeals board and the R-rating “for language” for Stephen Frears‘ Philomena (read my review here) has been changed to a PG-13, though the rating now sounds much harsher as it comes with a “for some strong language, thematic elements and sexual references”.
It must be a strange thing watching films looking for ways to describe things most of us pay no attention to because I couldn’t do it. In no way do a remember any strong language or sexual references (outside of a couple jokes you’d hear on any primetime television show” and in the grand scheme of things what does “thematic elements” even mean?
Oh well, no sense in trying to figure it all out. Here’s today’s bulletin.
