Tuesday 24 May 2016

BBFC recent cases

TBC:
Paddington
Wild Tales
Fifty Shades of Grey
Hunger Games
(Dark Knight franchise;
Human Centipede franchise)


The BBFC has remained relatively uncontroversial in recent times, although its 2014 report, widely interpreted as a relaxing of restrictions, especially at the 12/15 level, did attract a lot of flak from the right-wing press. The Daily Mail can always be relied upon for a good moral panic; here are the top results from a google of 'daily mail bbfc':


The Mail even managed to link the BBFC's liberalism (free market principles?!) with terrorism, though intriguingly didn't mention the BBFC once during this article:






...

No comments:

Post a Comment

Comments and suggestions are very welcome ... but please ensure all comments are appropriate! All comments are moderated before publication. Spam will be reported