Check out all of the posts tagged with "censorship".
The Yellow Balloon (1953) was one of the first films to be passed with an X certificate by the British Board of Film Censors, which judged the chase through the London Underground station too frightening […]
Sexploitation director Russ Meyer said: ‘They told me “You must do The Seven Minutes. You are the spokesperson against the forces of censorship.”‘ ‘An explosive film about a banned book, a rape, and a trial […]
Director Marco Brambilla’s 1993 sci-fi action thriller Demolition Man stars Sylvester Stallone as LA cop John Spartan, who battles ultra-crazy, ultra-violent villain Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) in 1996. They end up burning down a huge building […]
Director King Vidor’s trashy 1949 film noir romantic drama Beyond the Forest stars a weirdly posturing, unattractive looking, black-wigged Bette Davis, and she is far from her best as Rosa Moline, a 1940s-style American Madame […]
Director Henry Hathaway’s 1936 comedy Go West Young Man stars Mae West, who takes over the star role from a 1934 Broadway hit play called Personal Appearance by Lawrence Riley (which featured Gladys George), as […]
Writer-director Gary Ross’s 1998 fantasy comedy is an extremely pleasant, thought-provoking and beautifully crafted comic fable about a boy David (Tobey Maguire) and his sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) who are magicked into a TV channel that […]
Director Otto Preminger’s vice-like grip controls this long, complex and thought-provoking 1959 courtroom thriller, one of the finest ever made. It’s based on the once highly popular and famous bestselling novel by Robert Traver, the […]
Please use the navigation to move within this section.