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
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
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
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
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
A bomb disposal expert on the comedy Bluestone 42
Bluestone 42 succeeds in capturing the gallows humour that surrounds this most dangerous of jobs, says bomb disposal corporal Daniel Whittingham