Just another dent in the damage...

Why is it then that Munich caused so much controversy?
I don’t know what made me more uncomfortable, the historical inaccuracies, the humanisation of terrorists and terrorism, the justification of vengeance or the unnecessary wah wah self-righteousness of the Jewish protagonists. As a ‘fictionalised account’ of the Munich aftermath Spielberg does awfully well at making a [...]

Last night’s documentary Munich: Mossad’s Revenge was absolutely brilliant, especially the reconstruction of Barak’s infamous donning of female attire in the Beirut shootings. During the 1972 Olympics in Munich a dozen Israeli athletes were kidnapped by a PLO group known as Black Sunday demanding the release of their fighters in Israeli prisons. In a botched [...]

The film adaptation of the best-selling novel Memoirs of a Geisha follows the story of a young Japanese girl sold to a geisha house in Kyoto during the late 1930s. The narrative development comes courtesy of the fictional true confessions of Sayuri’s forbidden desire for love and happiness while one of Japan’s most celebrated [...]

Who Cares? I care.
I wonder if the 300+ people standing on the banks of the Thames this weekend have any idea what Japanese Whaling is and the fact that thousands of these animals are killed each year ‘in the name of science’ and the luxurious meat market. I can’t help but think that the reaction [...]