Today's Guardian has a brilliant review of 'Hunger', the latest British film to sentimentalise the murderers of Provisional IRA/Sinn Fein. See here http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/nov/03/hunger-bobby-sands. No need to see the movie after reading this outstanding piece. I'd recommend Gomorrah instead. It is the polar opposite of every Hollywood gangster movie. The public housing is unbelievably squalid, the countryside polluted with toxic waste dumped on behalf of northern industrialists, and even haut couture is not free of the Commora's attentions. The fate of the Chinese sweat shop owner who tries to sneak into the trade is chillingly instructive. Although the Commora make 500,000 Euros a day just from drugs, none of the bosses in the film lead enviable lives. They are huge thugs with gold chains and fake tans, living in shabby flats and unremarkable suburban homes. One of them has the sort of artificial voice box of someone with throat cancer. At the end of the movie the makers noted that 4,000 people have been murdered in Naples by these criminals. That's more than the death toll from the Troubles in Northern Ireland. I suspect that the Provos more properly resemble the men shown in this film than they do the haloed characters of every British movie about the Troubles. Great that Gomorrah is tipped to win the best foreign film Oscar. Perhaps Hollywood will think again before it sentimentalises Irish murderers too.