Dallas Buyers Club succeeds at showing how hard it is to establish the effectiveness of a new drug, says consultant physician and clinical toxicologist David Wood
'Your loyalty to your fellow soldiers is absolute,' says ex-SAS officer John Richards, on the remarkably realistic Mark Wahlberg drama about sharp-shooting Navy Seals battling al-Qaeda
A torture rehabilitation expert's view on The Railway Man
Interview by Laura Barnett
The torture scenes are terrifying – and completely realistic. Dick Cheney should see The Railway Man, says torture rehabilitation expert Dr William Hopkins
Women climbers are not high in number, but Disney's heroine Anna has the right credentials to join them – as long as she ditches the high heels, says Mollie Hughes
A PG Wodehouse expert on Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense
Interview by Laura Barnett
PG Wodehouse Society treasurer Jeremy Neville praises a clever, cross-dressing stage translation that stays true to the books – and is enormously enjoyable
There's as much tense negotiation among the jurors in many real-life court cases as there is in this stage adaptation of the Sidney Lumet film, says former juror Emma Danvers
A Scottish iron-age expert's view on Asterix and the Picts
Interview by Laura Barnett
Asterix and the Picts wasn't meant to be a historical record, says Scottish iron-age expert Fraser Hunter, but it captures the clannish mentality of the times
A counter-piracy expert's view on Captain Phillips
Filmed on the open seas and psychologically savvy, Captain Phillips should be required viewing for anyone involved in combating Somali piracy, says counter-piracy expert Gerry Northwood
James Corden and Mathew Baynton's new comedy of council staff engulfed by a sinister plot gets some things spot-on – but planners are more fun in real life, says Derek Carnegie
