In a pre-emptive move serving the commercial interests of Hollywood studios already heavily subsidized by Toronto, Ontario’s government has killed off its decades-old provincial film rating service.
The...
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Oct 2, 2019 jono
Last April, with nicotine addiction soaring among American schoolchildren, three U.S. Senators quizzed America's media companies about their own...
Sep 2, 2019 jono
The third season of Stranger Things (TV-14) debuted on Netflix on July 4 weekend. Coke, Burger King, JC Penny, The Gap, 7-11 and other high-profile brands visible in the show had well-planned...
Aug 8, 2019 jono
On August 6, forty-three state and territorial Attorneys General wrote America's leading media companies asking them...
Aug 2, 2019 jono
Netflix, the smokiest of the US streaming services, is going to develop more original programs around the world.
Having already bankrolled local programming in Germany, France and the UK, Netflix will now target other international...
Jul 26, 2019 jono
Both the United States and Canada have taken steps to stop tobacco promotion to children and teens. In fact, Canada has gone substantially further, banning tobacco advertising and product placement altogether.
But Canada's public...
Jul 2, 2019 jono
In the new movie Yesterday (Comcast, PG-13), a young man wakes up and realizes that — in his new reality — the Beatles never existed. This gives him some pretty good ideas for some songs he calls his own.
But that's...
Jun 26, 2019 jono
Jun 24, 2019 jono
The Chinese Association on Tobacco Control (Beijing) released the winners of its Dirty Ashtray...
Jun 19, 2019 jono
What makes Men in Black: International (PG-13, Sony) different from the three other films in the two-decade MIB franchise?
No Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones. No Barry Sonnenfeld as...