Category "censorship"

Unusual Death in Django Unchained (Female death censoring?)

Near the end of Django Unchained the title character shoots several people from the balcony. They have (relatively) realistic knock back/falls from the shots; t

Do TV channels take context into account when deciding to censor certain words?

I'm recently watching "How I Met Your Mother" again, and I'm noticing some weirdness. In early seasons, the word "bitch" was used a couple of times, i.e. Season

How are film festivals like BQFF able to bypass CBFC certification?

I have heard about film festivals like BQFF, etc. where they show films which have even failed to clear CBFC (Central Board of Film Certification)'s certificati

Why was Child 44 banned in Russia

I was watching Child 44 on TV the other day, and it struck me as another Hollywood movie based on a Novel. The book is : Loosely based on the story of the r

Has a 145 minute version of "Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom" ever been published?

The wikipedia italian page says that there is a 145 "original cut" version of the film, I have not been able to find any site that sells it. I found some sites

How is it decided whether or not a TV show will censor its swearing?

I was watching Deadpool the other night on FX. There's a lot of vulgar language in the movie. However, it was uncensored. Some movies or shows on TV censor t

Did Deadpool 2 get censored in India too and to what extent?

When Deadpool was released in India it got heavily censored even for "A" rated version, and this is discussed in a similar question. But, what about the recentl

Why has AMC stopped censoring the use of the f-word as seen this season in Better Call Saul?

Better Call Saul has had 2 non-bleeped uses of the f-word this season that I've noticed. In the past, AMC shows have typically bleeped these words from the epis

Why is Bandit Queen banned in India?

Bandit Queen is an Indian biographical film based on dacoit Phoolan Devi. I know that she fought to get it banned in India. But what is the exact reason behind

Can a movie that is banned in its home country be distributed in other countries?

If a movie is banned in its home country, can distributors in other countries legally publish it? For example can it be streamed on Netflix or distributed as DV

How did Monty Python get away with airing nudity?

When watching Monty Python's flying circus it's hard not to notice that there is a lot of nudity, mostly topless women. I'm just curious about how they could ha

What changes were done with Sailor Moon to make it heteronormative?

I have a blurred memory of watching Sailor Moon, American dub version, and had no memory of any homosexual story arc or characters. Recently I learned it was co

Why does The Magicians include so much un-airable dialogue?

The Magicians is a SyFy original series based on a fantasy book of the same name. It's essentially a deconstruction of the young-adult fantasy genre, aimed squa

Is it true that indexed movies in Germany are not actually banned?

When I'm doing some research on a controversial movie, it's not that infrequent to see that it is put on an index in Germany. Does it means that it is illegal t

Did the UK version of Terminator 2 censor out the lock picking scenes?

In a YouTube revue of Terminator 2, the narrator claims that the UK either tried to or actually did succeed in censoring out the scenes in which Sarah Connor pi

Is Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker censored in India too for same-sex kiss?

From the Singapore version of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker same-sex kiss scene got cut. Does India had any similar censoring done? Or in India, we see the s

How did Pirates of the Caribbean play in China considering that the movie depicts skeletons?

In the 2003 feature film Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, the villains are undead pirates whose true form of wasting skeletons becomes visibl

Why did South African authorities allow Cry Freedom to be screened when Steve Biko's writings were banned?

Cry Freedom is a 1987 film about Bantu Stephen Biko. He was a black South African and an organiser and activist against the then South African apartheid regime.

Is Kokapetl's dialogue universally bleeped out in the episode "Veils of Rana'Ori"?

In the section "Kokapetl's Scoop" of the episode "Veils of Rana'Ori" (Season 2, episode 23), called "Les Voiles de Rana'Ori" in French, of Mysterious Cities

Why is the US version of the first Austin Powers film different to the international version?

There are several scenes present in the international version of Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery that aren't present in the US (and Australian) vers