Judging by the bloody mayhem in some recent films teenagers really should be discouraged from going on holiday.

THE newly-declassified document (Irish Examiner, August 28) that shows Henry Kissinger telling Argentina’s Foreign Minister “if there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly”, just before the campaign against dissidents in 1976, should come as no great surprise.

Once upon a time, the arrival of a surfing film sent us scurrying deep inland. But here comes just such a film and it's worth splashing about in.