'Da Vinci Code' to rule the big screen

This week, the Cannes Film Festival. By next week, most of the so-called civilized world. Ron Howard's film version of The Da Vinci Code is ready to rule. Expect more than one nun to have her knickers in a knot over the ascendancy of this film, however. There is already a hornet's nest of controversy, thanks to novelist Dan Brown's best-selling, much-litigated but enormously lucrative book and its extraordinary claims. [More]