At BioEdge we like to be RELEVANT, so we were tempted by the latest Hollywood blockbuster, Angels and Demons. As you probably know, this stars Tom Hanks as a symbologist who saves the Vatican from being destroyed by an anti-matter bomb (don’t ask) after investigating and solving four murders in a single day. Breathless excitement and non-stop action and a dismal Tomatometer rating of a mere 39%.

We had hoped to splash it as our lead story if it included just a smidgen of bioethical interest, as the book of the same name does. As you may remember, the pope who dies before the action begins conceived a child with a nun through the high-tech chastity of artificial insemination. However, after trawling through reviews, this juicy detail appears to have been expunged from the film. Nothing to (drum roll) pontificate about here. If readers who have seen the film wish to correct this, feel free. BioEdge only watches films with a Tomatometer rating of at least 75%.