Waltz with Bashir is both an incredible screen animation and graphic novel depicting Ari Folman’s quest to rediscover his lost memories from the massacre of Palestinians in Beirut during 1982.
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, [...]

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 [...]