Lebanon
1 year ago
Following the latest Scream VI ban, I thought of compiling a list of all banned movies & shows in Lebanon based on previous blog posts and online findings. There was a museum of censorship initiative ...
Lebanon
5 years ago
The General Security Censorship Bureau in Lebanon has asked to ban on July 19, 2019 2 new movies in the country. The Minister of Interior and Municipalities Raya Haffar El Hassan has yet to give ...
Lebanon
6 years ago
Lebanese censorship strikes again. This time on Halloween, at the third edition of the “Maskoon Fantastic Film” festival, organized by Abbout Productions in collaboration with the Metropolis Association, the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) and ...
Critiques
7 years ago
I was asking around if there’s any avant-premiere events for Spielberg’s latest movie THE POST which features Tom Hanks & Meryl Streep but I was surprised to hear that the movie apparently didn’t pass censorship ...
Critiques
7 years ago
So Wonder Woman got banned because the lead actor Gal Gadot is an Israeli and has served in the military. Knowing that the same actress was also starring in three previous movies that were all ...
Critiques
8 years ago
The Beirut International Film Festival (BIFF) is a non-profit event that is held under the patronage of the Ministry of Tourism and is sponsored by SGBL. BIFF promotes young and aspiring local talents and more ...
Critiques
8 years ago
One of the biggest surprises of the Oscars last night was “Spotlight” winning the award for Best Picture. Everyone was expecting the Revenant to clinch the award, after receiving two of the biggest Oscars of ...
Critiques
9 years ago
WASP is a movie by Lebanese-Swiss director Philippe Audi-Dor that tells the story of a gay man in a relationship, who finds himself unexpectedly attracted to a woman. The film won Best International Feature and ...
Lebanon
10 years ago
Grand Cinemas tweeted few days back that Noah will start showing on March 27th but they said it didn’t pass the censorship yet. Cinemall posted today on their Facebook page (See below) that the movie ...
Lebanon
10 years ago
UAE, Qatar and Bahrain have already banned the Hollywood film “Noah” because it contains scenes that are seen as offensive to Islam. I am not sure whether it will be banned in Lebanon as well ...