The song The First Noël may (most probably) date from the Cornish Middle Ages, but it has not escaped Lebanese censorship in modern times. The singers Bruno Tabbal and Cynthia Karam have just made the bitter experience of it. Unsuspectingly, they interpreted this famous song known throughout the world in a Christmas clip “supposed to … Read more
Weird Al Yankovic Says He Wanted To Make A Harry Potter Parody But Was Banned From Warner Bros. We all know that Harry Potter as a franchise has been one of the most important for at least the first decade of the 2000s. However, the prequel trilogy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them … Read more
The accounts he reinstated on Friday are those of Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson and Babylon Bee. Comedian Kathy Griffin, who was followed by 2 million people, was suspended from the platform last week, like other Internet users who had changed their pseudonym to Elon Musk to make fun of the new boss. She had also … Read more
The owner and patron of Twitter since three weeks ago Elon Musk announced this Friday, November 18 that several suspended user accounts had been reinstated on the platform, but that he had “not yet made a decision on (Donald) Trump”. The boss of Tesla, who defends an absolutist vision of freedom of expression, is expected … Read more
American comedian Kathy Griffin saw her Twitter account, followed by more than 2 million followers, suspended this Sunday, November 6. The new boss of the social network Elon Musk would have had very little taste for his parody. Freedom… Except when it does not please him. New Twitter boss Elon Musk has suspended comedian Kathy … Read more
black adam is a disappointment, and it’s partly because it’s a compendium of clichés that we don’t want to see in superhero movies anymore. OUR BLACK ADAM REVIEW As he has been boasting for months on Instagram, Dwayne Johnson lifted iron and buildings to put on the costume – without padding – of Black Adam … Read more
Urs Hostettler with the German and Japanese version of his board game ‘Kremlin’. Dominik Landwehr In the 1980s, a board game mocked the secret activities of the Kremlin. He found followers in Switzerland, West Germany, the United States, Japan and, apparently, in the Russian embassy in Bern. State security in the GDR (East Germany) did … Read more
Urs Hostettler with the German version and the Japanese version of his “Kremlin” board game. Dominik Landwehr In the 1980s, a board game poked fun at the Kremlin’s secretive activities. He had found followers in Switzerland, the FRG, the United States, Japan – and, it seems, at the Russian Embassy in Bern. The GDR’s state … Read more
“The People’s Joker,” a slightly different film about the iconic Batman villain, recently celebrated its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. However, he is already deprived of other screenings for legal reasons… Vera Drew In The People’s Joker, transgender filmmaker Vera Drew tells a fictionalized, DC-set version of her own story. During the … Read more
Similar to novels with difficult storylines, television shows receive comparable scrutiny from audiences. Whether they reflect major news events, cover controversial topics, or elicit unexpected reactions, episodes of popular television shows have barely seen the light of day. The plots or problematic characters included in the banned episodes reflect the more informal social opinions when … Read more