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No gays, no blacks, no fat people: film advertising betrayals

In the US, the DVD of Pride, the film about gay activists in the 80s miners’ strike, makes no mention of the word gay and describes the activists as ’London-based’. Unfortunately, it’s not the first case of a film being mis-sold The hit Britcom Pride told of the alliance in the mid-1980s between gay activists and striking miners – miners on strike, that is, as opposed to men who look especially …

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US distributors of Pride accused of removing gay references on DVD cover

The Stateside version of the film’s home release appears to omit mention of the sexuality of the activists at the core of its story Pride is the award-winning true-life tale of a group of London-based gay and lesbian activists who stood up for striking Welsh coal miners in 1984 and helped to spark a sea-change in attitudes to gay rights on the British political left. But film-lovers in north …

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Horror stories

Why do we love horror movies at Christmastime and not during the Halloween season?The last Metro Manila Film Festival was a gruesome parade of six horror stories: three unconnected episodes in the long-running Shake, Rattle and Roll franchise, plus one of another three episodes in My Big Bossing, plus Feng Shui 2, plus Kubot, The Aswang Chronicles 2.Look at the monsters and ghouls and see how …

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