Boy, 10, asks film classifier to change rating so he can see ‘Alien: Covenant’

The Baywatch reboot and Oscar-winning musical comedy La La Land were among 16 movies that prompted complaints to the Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) last year.

Boy, 10, asks film classifier to change rating so he can see ‘Alien: Covenant’

Some 25 complaints were received during 2017, which included objections to “subliminal advertising” of a beer brand in Kong: Skull Island, and a request to ban superhero spinoff Logan “to protect the flagging morals that are left in our country”.

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