Tag: BBFC
Hellcat Mud Wrestlers And Foxy Boxers: The Knock-Out Blow For The British Sex Film
The long and winding road of British smut cinema came to a bitter end in 1983 as the genre bowed out on a new creative low.
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Censorship In Ireland: The Public Speak
A VoxPop study of public attitudes towards strict film censorship in 1964.
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Sound Or Vision: The BBFC’s Audio Commentary Scam
Should option soundtracks on DVDs and Blu-rays be classified as separate video recordings? The censors claim they should – but they are wrong.
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Censorship’s Lack Of Appeal
The British video censorship appeals process has always been set up to be as difficult and costly as possible – and new ‘simplifications’ do little to change that.
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Pandering To The Masses: The Hypocritical Fixation With Public Opinion
Why do people put so much time and effort into pretending that the opinions of the person on the street actually matter?
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Traingirl: the Awful Death Of Mary Wojtyla
The story behind one of the most notorious deaths ever to be caught on camera and its unexpected connections to an infamous adult video series.
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Last Straw Dogs On The Left – The Inconsistencies And Double Standards Of The BBFC
The story of two controversial movies and their rather different experiences at the hands of film censors who seem to make up the rules as they go along.
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The Guild Home Video VHS Catalogues
A pair of VHS catalogues from one of the more prolific indie distributors of the 1980s.
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The Obscenity Trials Of The Century
Two high-profile British trials in 2012 attempted to draw a line in the sand over what was acceptable sexual behaviour between consensual adults.
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Halloween Hammer: The Devil Rides Out
Continuing our Hammer Horror month with a look at one of their most impressive films, adapted from the Dennis Wheatley novel.
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Halloween Hammer: The Hound Of The Baskervilles
Continuing our Halloween-month exploration of Hammer Horror with the company’s sole Sherlock Holmes adaptation.
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