This post is originally written for MovieRob’s Genre Grandeur on Heist Movies. For all the reviews in this feature, check out Movie Rob’s site.

Fast Five is the very first film in The Fast and The Furious franchise I ever watched. I’m not a snobby movie watcher. I love superhero films and summer blockbusters like a lot of other people. But I overlooked this franchise thinking it would be a hollow, soul less action flick. Okay, this franchise is never going to win an Oscar for best picture. It is a fun, testosterone fueled ride and I can see why it’s one of the biggest, most popular action movie franchises around.

The fifth installment surprisingly makes for a good entry point into the franchise for me. It’s arguably the best in the franchise to date. The action sequences are exciting and well directed. There’s enough character beats to give…

Controversial news have been buzzing recently about the not-so-newest, but certainly on-the-news revelations that according to the recent survey at least 40% of Jewish Israeli women opt to be in a Jewish-only delivery ward. The survey was conducted following the uneasy feeling that was left by the comment of the Israeli MP Betzalel Smotrich, who said that “it is natural that [his] wife would not want to lie next to someone whose baby son may want to murder [his] son”. The wife reportedly confessed that “it’s not pleasant for [her] to lie next to Arab women”.

As one even with a smidgen of imagination can conclude, the case has been rapidly picked up by pro-Palestinian organisations, as to prove without any shadow of a doubt that Israel is an apartheid state, which separates the nation into two camps.

If one decides to look at the statistics from the perspective of…