TG Daily quoting the Telegraph, actually:

"A bureaucratic blunder by the Tory government back in 1984 means that the UK law covering illegal DVDs and videos is unenforceable, leaving pirates free to produce illegal copies of movies and sell hard core porn to children. Thousands of people charged since 1984 could now appeal against their ( Read more... )

...but Richard Stanley's Hardware (1990) is finally available as a legit special edition DVD in the UK.


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...whilst Lesbian Vampire Killers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020885/) suffered a critical mauling upon its theatrical release, and got caught up in the "Horne and Corden's TV show is sh*t" zeitgeist prevalent at the time, some moments of the film are genuinely laugh-out-loud ( Read more... )

If you tell someone that you'll be watching Alex Jones' documentary The Obama Deception (http://www.infowars.com) this evening, the best you can hope for is either a knowing wink or a blank stare. (Audio equivalent of the latter just received, courtesy of astartesyriaca.)

I don't know why it hasn't got an ( Read more... )

...because Body of Lies (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758774/) is actually rather good.

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Tom Hutchison authored quite an interesting snapshot article (entitled "Bond Wars") in yesterday's Daily Star newspaper on the retail price-based pissing contest surrounding Quantum of Solace on DVD:

"A battle of the Bonds broke out on the High Street last night as the price of the new 007 blockbuster DVD fell to £6.98. Tesco's £7 cut-price offer ( Read more... )

'Berners-Lee has no issue with targeted adverts, which he said offered online users an improved service, but is uncomfortable with using DPI to provide them. He likened DPI to wiretapping, and pointed out that companies could use it to learn a huge amount about our "lives, hates and fears".'Read more... )

Given how often music videos turn up here on Anti-Gravitas, one tag you'll probably be seeing a lot less of from now on is "mytubes ( Read more... )

"Miramax and the London Jewish Cultural Centre, which commissioned the survey to mark the DVD release of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, said that, as there are around 4.5 million 11 to 16-year-olds in the UK, this is the equivalent of 90,000 youngsters wrongly identifying Auschwitz as a drink and 45,000 mistaking it for bread."Read more... )

...or someone is keeping all the negative press well away from the delusional, eternally childlike, and not especially talented actor:

"When you're a great big star like Leonardo DiCaprio, you can work with any director you want to on any project you want to."The rest is here: Read more... )