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Ali G: Who Iz I? is a 2026 UK/US comedy by Sacha Baron Cohen
Starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Morgana Robinson and Stewart Rodeheaver

BBFC cuts were required for 2026 cinema release. These ar undetailed cuts with the BBFC citing the Protection of Children Act 1978.

Summary Notes

Hip-hop journalist Ali G returns after 20 years to make a documentary with real people. Cameras follow him for over a year as he takes classes, walks the streets, and appears on shows, often with his pregnant girlfriend.

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cut:   run: 88:45s pal: 85:12s		UK: BBFC 15 rated with a trigger warning for strong sex references, crude humour, language, discrimination after BBFC cuts: 2026 Amazon Digital UK cinema release (rated 16/10/2026) The BBFC commented: A cut was made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines, policy, and the Protection of Children Act 1978.
uncut run: 88:58s pal: 85:24s		Ireland: Uncut and IFCO 16 rated with a trigger warning for strong sexual content, language and discriminatory terms, crude humour throughout: 2026 Amazon MGM Studios cinema release

Repressive new online safety measures have failed to limit the proportion of children suffering harm from social media, the UK's internet censor has admitted.

The proportion of children being fed unsafe content that often left them frightened, confused and upset, was almost unchanged, according to an Ofcom review of the first nine months of supposedly strict requirements on social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram.

Under the Online Safety Act, the tech giants had to protect children from harmful content including pornography, serious violence, suicide material, racism, misogyny and bullying, with a series of specific duties introduced in summer 2025. But Ofcom found that at a total level there was no significant change in the proportion of children encountering harmful content over the first nine months after the children's safety duties came into force in July 2025. It called the finding concerning and said there was no evidence indicating a change in the severity of harm.

The regulator is already facing a wave of legal actions from tech companies challenging its powers including the Instagram operator Meta, as well as TikTok and X. It has warned it risks being absolutely clobbered legally by deep-pocketed individuals and firms.

Of course Ofcom has spun the abject failure as a reason for doubling down on censorship. The censor has proposed adding additional censorship rules banning content that makes children feel bad about their bodies or else somehow makes them feel unhappy (with the right think terminology  equivalencing this to mental health issues like depression).

Ofcom were grilled by Parliament's Culture, Media and Sport Committee on 20th October 2026. The committee is investigated the effectiveness of Ofcom in enforcing internet censorship laws contained in the Online Safety Act.

The act has been in force for about 15 months and in that time Ofcom have issued 11 fines mostly to porn websites for failing to implement ID/age verification. Other websites targeted were the US based free speech forum 4Chan, and also the widely reviled Sanctioned Suicide forum.

Ofcom boss Melanie Dawes admitted that tech firms have paid just the two smallest of the eleven fines handed out under the Online Safety Act since March last year. She conceded nine remain unpaid, albeit one of these has not yet passed its due date and another is being appealed.

She did point out that two of the nine have now implemented the required ID/age verification and four have self geo-blocked all users with a UK IP address. Three are totally defying Ofcom by continuing on unchanged.

Dawes added that enforcement measures have run against a brick wall for foreign companies without a presence in the UK. She said:

We won't be able to recover every single fine on online safety. If foreign courts decide try and get in our way, there will be a point at which we have to accept that we won't be able to recover that money.

The US lawyer representing some of the US victims of the censorship law Preston Byrne had been particularly vocal about Ofcom's censorship attempts by shredding Ofcom's censorship letters and using them at hamster litter. He continually challenged Ofcom to fight him in the US courts where the famous First Amendment to the US Constitutions guarantees free speech for all Americans. Byrne colourfully explains:

Unless Ofcom is prepared to sail a British invasion fleet here and land ground troops, enforcement would indeed have to proceed through American courts. Which presents the following problem for Ofcom:

American courts generally decline to enforce foreign judgments that violate the United States Constitution.

It would be a gift to 4chan if Ofcom decided to show up in an American court after all this, waiving sovereign immunity and thus facing the prospect of an adverse merits ruling in the process. Filing that lawsuit would be suicidal, leading to virtually certain defeat and total loss of enforcement credibility in the United States. It will almost certainly never happen, not for 4chan, and likely not for any other American target, either.

What will happen next is that Ofcom is going to go back to Parliament to ask for the authority to obtain interim business disruption measures --  i.e., more or less unilateral censorship powers to block foreign websites in the UK before starting an enforcement process, rather than after. These powers were explicitly rejected by Parliament the last time around and have even now been repudiated by Nadine Dorries, the former MP who introduced the Bill, having seen what a mess Ofcom has made of it. These powers will also be easily defeated through the use of a VPN.

The UK thus continues its authoritarian backsliding. Sorting out their own country is, ultimately, a matter for the British, and opposing the grant of new powers for Ofcom -- an agency which was held off by a pair of American solo lawyers working for free -- on domestic policy grounds is a task for the growing UK free speech movement to take up, with urgency.

Ofcom bosses also explained to the parliamentary committee that geo-blocking UK users from access to website is as far as censorship actions can go. If a website self-geo-blocks there is little point pursing an ISP block as that effectively adds nothing further to the censorship. UK VPN users will still be able to access the website either way.

Eyes Wide Shut is a 1999 UK/US erotic mystery thriller by Stanley Kubrick
Starring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Todd Field

Cut for an MPAA R rating in the US. Uncut in the UK, bar a religious recitation that offended the easily offended

Summary Notes

A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2025 The Criterion Collection R0 4K Blu-ray at US Amazon #ad released on 25th November 2025
• 2025 The Criterion Collection (RA) Blu-ray via US Amazon #ad released on 25th November 2025

Promotional Material

Stanley Kubricks career-capping Eyes Wide Shut unfolds in a dreamscape vision of New York City, where doctor Bill Harford (Tom Cruise) and his wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), confront the unconscious desires, jealousies, and fears threatening their marriage. A Christmastime odyssey into a surreal sexual underworld whose hidden power structures are laid frighteningly bare, the film marks the fulfillment of the directors decades-long desire to adapt Arthur Schnitzlers novella Traumnovelle ( Dream Story ) and the culmination of his obsessive interest in the relationship between institutional authority and the individual. Released in 1999, the film also serves as a fitting coda to a century of cinema, by one of its greatest visionaries--an endlessly tantalizing labyrinth whose myriad symbols, mysteries, and meanings are still being unraveled.

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration of the international version of the film, supervised and approved by director of photography Larry Smith, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film and special features
• New interviews with Smith, set decorator and second-unit director Lisa Leone, and archivist Georgina Orgill
• Archival interview with Christiane Kubrick, director Stanley Kubricks wife
• Never Just a Dream (2019), featuring interviews with producer Jan Harlan; Katharina Kubrick, Stanley Kubricks daughter; and Anthony Frewin, Kubricks personal assistant
• Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick (2007)
• Kubrick Remembered (2014), featuring interviews with actors Todd Field and Leelee Sobieski and filmmaker Steven Spielberg
• Kubricks 1998 acceptance speech for the Directors Guild of Americas D. W. Griffith Award
• Press conference from 1999, featuring Harlan and actors Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman
• Teaser, trailer, and promos
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by author Megan Abbott and a 1999 interview with filmmaker and actor Sydney Pollack

Scars Of Dracula is a 1970 UK horror by Roy Ward Baker.
Starring Christopher Lee and Dennis Waterman and Jenny Hanley.

Originally cut by the BBFC for an 18 rated 1970 cinema release. The cuts have persisted ever since but the the BBFC rating was reduced to 15 for DVD. The same cut version is MPAA R rated in the US.

Summary Notes

A young man, Paul Carlson, is on a trip and spends the night at count Dracula's castle. Needless to say, he is murdered. After some time has passed, the young man's brother Simon comes to the small town where all the traces end to look for him.

UK: Passed Suitable for 15 years and over uncut for:

• 2025 Studiocanal Collector's Edition R0 4K Blu-ray/RB Blu-ray Combo at UK Amazon #ad released on 24th November 2025

Promotional Material

Christopher Lee returned to his most famous role for the fifth time in Roy Ward Bakers (Quatermass and the Pit) SCARS OF DRACULA, the bloodiest entry in the entire series.

Resurrected after a bat dribbles fresh blood over his mouldering remains, Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) unleashes a new reign of terror.

When Paul (Christopher Matthews) goes missing, his brother Simon (Dennis Waterman) and Simons girlfriend (Jenny Hanley) set off in search of him, inevitably leading them to the Prince of Darkness castle...

EXTRAS

• Brand New 4K Restoration
• Brand new artwork by Johnny Dombrowski
• 64 page perfect-bound booklet with new essays and original press kit
• 2 posters
• On-disc extras:
• NEW "Fangs Out: Dracula, Desire & Disruption": Clarisse Loughrey and Isaura Barbé-Brown in conversation
• NEW Legacy of the Vampire -- An interview with Dacre Stoker
• Hammers Bite: Chris Matthews on Scars of Dracula
• Audio Commentary with Christopher Lee and director Roy Ward Baker
• Blood Rites: Inside Scars of Dracula
• Stills Gallery
• Original trailer