THE NEXT ARGO

At this year's Oscar awards, a film about the Iran hostage crisis called Argo won Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. However, the film was also criticised for its woeful historical inaccuracies.

Iran has been the target of Israeli propaganda for decades over an alleged nuclear weapons program. Last year at the UN GA, the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu gave us all a giggle when he produced a picture of a classic cartoon bomb with a lit fuse, supposed to represent Iran's alleged progress to producing a nuclear bomb. Meanwhile Israel sits on the largest stockpile of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East, and nobody dare whisper anything about it.

So which film will take next year's Oscars by storm?

Well, I think we have a potential winner in Captain Phillips.

Captain Phillips is an adaptation (like Argo) of an account of piracy of the Maersk Alabama by fishermen from (drum roll...........) SOMALIA!!!

Initial screenings have been well received by the critics (like Argo).

But the film is also criticised for its historical inaccuracies (like Argo).

But what it is more curious is that the film is directed by Paul Greengrass, who directed two of the highly successful Bourne films, and also United 93, which supports the official version of 9/11.

So why would a successful director of the Bourne films, who also creates films that support the official version of 9/11, direct a film about Somali piracy, at this particular time, and for it to be so well received by the same film critic industry that praised Argo so much?

I am not a gambling man but I might just put a fiver on Captain Phillips to win at least one major award at next year's Oscars.