The Hunger Games Premiere – Producer Nina Jacobson on Success and 7 Seconds of Cuts

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Earlier today we published our brief interviews with Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutchinson at last night’s Hunger Games premiere. During the evening we also managed to have a much longer chat with the film’s producer Nina Jacobson. With pundits and experts alike predicting a massive opening for the film – possibly in the $150 million [...]

Getting To The Bottom Of The Human Centipede 2 Controversy – Tom Six and Lawrence R Harvey vs The BBFC

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When it came out last year, the first Human Centipede film generated a huge amount of publicity due to its original, if disgusting, central idea. Within weeks of its release there were countless articles, analyses and jokes about the film – there was even a South Park episode parodying it. In spite of its place [...]

Adventures With The Censors – An Interview With The BBFC

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We recently published an article looking at the British Board of Film Classification, and their changing role as the bastions of morality in the UK. As a follow up to this, we put some questions to Craig Lapper, a Senior Examiner with the BBFC about their way the organisation works, the process they go through [...]

Adventures with the Censor: The BBFC and Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer

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I don’t believe in film censorship. I believe that adults (as legally defined) have an inalienable right to watch disturbing or challenging material if they choose to do so. I do however believe in a system of clear and simple film classification, which functions as a set of parental guidelines and as a means by [...]

BBFC Grants The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) an 18 Rating in the UK

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Here’s some news that I wasn’t expecting to see. The BBFC (the governing body that decides what rating a movie should be here in the UK) has decided to give The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) an 18 rating (find out why it was rejected initially here). From what we were hearing, the movie was [...]

Exclusive Tom Six Interview – The Human Centipede 2 and the BBFC

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At 8:45pm on the 22nd September a group of adults sat down in a cinema to watch The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence). The occasion was the world première of the film at the opening of Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. The world première should have been earlier this year in the United Kingdom, the country in which the film was made. The British Board of Film Classification interfered though, rejecting the [...]

Cannibal Holocaust Blu-ray Review

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A professor heads into the Amazonian jungle to find a lost documentary film crew only to find that they have all been killed by the native population. What remains though are cans of undeveloped film that document the crew’s journey and their ultimate fate. Returning to New York the professor delivers the footage to a [...]

Has Hyperbole Gone Too Far? Teaser Trailer for The Human Centipede 2 Arrives

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At the recent Big Screen event in London  Tom Six was keen to point out that his films are the darkest kind of black comedy with the controversial 2009 film The Human Centipede (First Sequence) being the next in a long line of mad scientist films. Bemused but clearly pleased at the support the BBFC’s [...]

3D Sex and Zen Director Christopher Sun Talks About Sex, Zen And Censorship

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Goggle-eyed pervs rejoice, the entirely bizarre 3D Sex and Zen finally hits cinemas today, albeit in a slightly trimmed version due to some cuts requested by the BBFC. Some of you may have seen last month my PR-sanctioned tweetathon during the press screening of the film – if you didn’t it’s safe to say I [...]

Is The 12A Certificate Still Valid?

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Let me begin by saying that I do not read The Daily Mail, I do not vote BNP and I certainly do not believe in unwarranted censorship. This is not some scare-mongering piece of propaganda which illegitimately claims that Kick-Ass promotes paedophilia, Machete sponsors racism and Childs Play 3 will turn your children into knife-wielding [...]

I Spit On Your Grave (2010) Blu-ray Review

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Arriving in a country town Jennifer (Sarah Butler) encounters a group of local men at a petrol station before settling into a rented cabin where she intends to relax and write. The men she encountered at the petrol station disrupt her idyllic cabin hideaway though, breaking in and then humiliating and raping her. When the [...]

New Behind the Scenes Featurette for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

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Can’t wait the seventeen days until Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows hits every screen in the world? Then this new featurette is just the thing for you. Talking to the main cast and crew this short video concerns itself with ‘The Story’, and there’s a real sense of the growing darkness [...]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Rated 12A in UK, PG-13 in America

The British Board of Film Classification has officially rated Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 12A. On the official BBFC website, they cite “contains moderate fantasy violence and threat” as the reasons behind the decision. Similarly, in the US, the Motion Picture Association of America has awarded the film the rating equivalent, PG-13, due to intense action [...]

LFF 2010: The King’s Speech vs. The BBFC

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The King’s Speech receives its UK premiere at the London Film Festival today. The film is incredibly enjoyable, well made and features a fantastic cast that deliver throughout. Positive critical buzz has been surrounding the film and talk of Oscars has already been at the forefront of a lot of discussions. One aspect of the [...]