Now and then, someone gets their back up about the immorality coming out of Hollywood and suggests reinstating the Hays Code, and there is literally no reason to do so. The latest diatribe to make the ...

The post Sex in Cinema: Creative Ways Filmmakers Skirted the Hays Code appeared first on Consequence. After a string of scandals rocked young Hollywood, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors ...

Trigger Warning: The following references sexual assault. Generally speaking, if films released between 1934 and 1968 were a flavor, they'd be vanilla, or outright flavorless altogether thanks in ...

Some movies are so popular, they change Hollywood forever. That was the case with the 1967 gangster film Bonnie and Clyde starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. Bonnie and Clyde came out during the ...

The internet is in a tailspin thanks to Penn Badgley, the star of Netflix drama You, who announced on his podcast that when making the newest season, which recently came out, he asked to limit his sex ...

Two years into his tenure as President of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Will H. Hays was in front of Congress. Not for movie-related business, but for accepting and then ...

The Hays Code emerged in 1930 as Hollywood’s response to mounting pressure from conservative critics and religious groups, who accused the industry of undermining traditional values. This backlash was ...

How do you shoot a sex scene amid the coronavirus pandemic? Watching "Casablanca" could help. Filmmakers in the United Kingdom are being encouraged to watch Hays Code productions such as “Casablanca” ...

It’s been almost a week since Lena Dunham’s Girls debuted on HBO. Girls, the story of a group of rich/upper middle class white girl post-grads living in Brooklyn who have yet to figure out their own ...

Actress Ingrid Bergman once said, “A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.” And boy would she know—her shared kiss with Cary Grant in Alfred Hitchcock ...