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Don't hold your breath
Sony waste their time appealing for a 15 rating after the New Zealand film censor rants about the violence in Fede Alvarez's Don't Breathe

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Judged Offside
Paul Gascoigne fined 1600 pounds after performing a trivial joke about dark skin

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Censor Watch

25th Sep

Don't hold your breath
Sony waste their time appealing for a 15 rating after the New Zealand film censor rants about the violence in Fede Alvarez's Don't Breathe

Censor Watch

24th Sep

Updated: Epic intolerance
Ben-Hur censored in Malaysia

Censor Watch

20th Sep

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: If You Build A Censorship Machine, They Will Come
EFF notes that MPAA are fighting censorship of smoking on film whilst seeking censorship for uses of film that they do not approve

Censor Watch

18th Sep

Update: Epic intolerance
Ben-Hur censored in Malaysia

Censor Watch

13th Sep

Update: Double Censorship
Horror Channel put on final warning for showing a version of I Spit On Your Grave without all of the BBFC censor cuts

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Horror and Cruelty
New Zealand film censor re-rates Suicide Squad after complaint

Censor Watch

12th Sep

Room Full of Lawyers
Sydney Underground Festival aims to show documentary despite likely litigation

Films Latest

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: BBFC Podcast Episode 57
Something Wild on the border between 15 and 18

Diary

10th Sep

Diary: Hobo with a Wicker Saw
September 2016 on the Horror Channel

Censor Watch

23rd Sep

Recruiting censors on the cheap
YouTube to create an army of Stazi snitches and whingers, rewarding them for flagging videos as inappropriate

Censor Watch

Traditional censorship
Silly censors ban silly tourism video using ancient Thai characters in a modern setting

Censor Watch

22nd Sep

Update: Porn register
South Africa works on an internet censorship bill that requires adult video websites to log the names and addresses of all viewers in a register available for government perusal

Censor Watch

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Don't let copyright box us in
A call to the FCC to disallow big media company copyright control freakery from being applied to Internet TV. By Mark Lemley

Censor Watch

19th Sep

Complainants about insults are always right, especially when they are rich
The Italian Chamber of Deputies has put forward a bill that will allow for rampant, unaccountable censorship of the Italian internet, without rule of law or penalty for abuse.

Censor Watch

18th Sep

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: No refuge from mass snooping
Internet exchange DE-CIX challenges the legality of Germany mandating devices to enable mass internet surveillance

Censor Watch

17th Sep

Petitioning for a British exit from democracy
CPS has yet to reject an anti-democratic petition calling for the prosecution of Nigel Farage for supposedly inciting religious and racial hatred

Censor Watch

Commented: Police seem to think they can make up the law defining hate crimes
More police forces consider defining insults against women as a hate crime

Censor Watch

16th Sep

Soaraway Censorship
Liverpool councillors call for the city's newspaper sellers to ban the Sun in long running dispute over its unfair coverage of the Hillsborough disaster

Censor Watch

25th Sep

Judged Offside
Paul Gascoigne fined 1600 pounds after performing a trivial joke about dark skin

Censor Watch

24th Sep

Commented: Does political correctness ban authors from writing books set in other cultures?
Author Lionel Shriver comments 'I hope the concept of cultural appropriation is a passing fad'

Censor Watch

23rd Sep

Inappropriate stereotypical fat shaming appropriation
Disney withdraw Maui costume after PC complaints

Censor Watch

22nd Sep

ASA vs English Freedom
Advert censor bans gollywog character from adverts for the Ginger Pop Shop

Censor Watch

18th Sep

Offsite Article

Offsite Article: Hands on play testing
Gamers banned from groping VR women at gaming exhibit

Censor Watch

17th Sep

Update: Deviant censors
Intolerant Indonesia seeks to ban gay networking apps

Censor Watch

15th Sep

Commented: Undercover censorship
Ofcom clears a few non explicit, non nude shots suggesting Love Island reality show contestants were having sex

Censor Watch

12th Sep

Virtual outrage
A Virtual Reality version of Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 will allow players to touch characters 'inappropriately'

Censor Watch

11th Sep

Update: Rajan Zed Recommends
Jack's Precious IPA

Diary

10th Sep

Diary: Hobo with a Wicker Saw
September 2016 on the Horror Channel

Diary

5th Sep

Diary: Grimmfest 2016
6-9th October 2016. Horror film festival in Manchester

Diary

3rd Aug

Diary: Mayhem Film Festival
13-16th October 2016, Nottingham

Diary

30th Jul

Diary: Release the Bats
28-31st October 2016. John Carpenter in concert in London and Manchester playing music from his films

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20th Sep

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19th Sep

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Green Room, Friend Request, The Haunting of Woodland Hills

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13th Sep

Weekly US DVD and Blu-ray Releases
Tenebrae, Evil Dead II, Hammer Horror 8 Film Collection

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12th Sep

Weekly UK DVD and Blu-ray Releases
The Curse of Robert the Doll, Friday Foster

Recent releases

6th Sep

Weekly US DVD and Blu-ray Releases
Revenge of Frankenstein + The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll + The Gorgon

Recent releases

5th Sep

Landlord Neville Archambault Baldwin Carrigan

Weekly UK DVD and Blu-ray Releases
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Vampyres, Unspoken, The Landlord

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31st Aug

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29th Aug

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