In the age of streaming and parental locks, the BBFC with its Twitter advent calendar, press releases and reclassifications is desperate to prove its relevanceDid you rush to the advent calendar as soon as you woke up today? The British Board of Film Classification advent calendar, that is, which has been running on Twitter throughout this month.
We’ve already learned so much.
There was the revelation that past examiners considered Ron Howard’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas to be “educational” and believed the star of Rumble Fish and Angel Heart to be one “M O’Rourke”.
It was no surprise to discover that a scene of Santa Claus wielding candy-striped chain-sticks was originally snipped from the 1996 comedy Jingle All the Way.
The martial arts weapon, also known as nunchaku, was the special bugbear of James Ferman, the board’s director at the time, who seemed convinced that
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