melonfarmers.co.uk

Melon Farmers has become one of my essential Web reads, I'll usually check in about once a week as the updates are a little sporadic. It's not so much a movie site as an anti-censorship site, though its main target is the work of the BBFC. As someone who prefers to see his films uncut and finds it insulting that the UK government should feel that I could be easily influenced by what I see, Melon Farmers is the easiest way to keep track of what the BBFC is doing. Though irratic the site is regularly updated and the news is always interesting reading. Reporting is always frank and there's no holding back on opinion, sometimes I worry that arguments ...  Read the complete review

Melon Farmer's Video Hits is a UK-based website that seeks to inform people of the nature and extent of video, DVD, and cinema censorship that goes on here and abroad. There is a regularly updated database of articles and news items concerning the issue, as well as editorial opinions (mostly concerning the British Board of Film Certification, as well as who they lovingly refer to as "Jackboots" Straw!) But what makes most interesting reading is the carefully-collated and aphabetically indexed list of films and videos to suffer cuts at the hands of the censors, along with the precise nature of the cuts that took place. Now you can read about some of ...  Read the complete review