Angels & Demons

Coming soon: Terminator: Salvation, starring Christian Bale. Arnold Schwarzenegger, star of the first three Terminator films and governor of California, has a cameo role. And crowds loved Star Trek, with all-new actors playing Captain Kirk, Scotty and Mr. Spock.

"This movie, without being particularly good, is nonetheless far less hysterical than 'Da Vinci,' wrote A. O. Scott in the New York Times. "And as an exercise in extreme mass-market tourism 'Angels & Demons' gives pretty good value." 

Father Patrick McKenna (Ewan McGregor) rushes around the Vatican arranging meetings and conferences in Angels & Demons. And then you remember: He looks like Georg Gänswein, the secretary of Pope Benedict, known to Italians as Bel Giorgio.

"The Pantheon was built by Marcus Agrippa in 27 BC." A fifth-century theologian called the Pantheon The House of the Devil, warning that the hole in the roof was an entrance for demons. "Yes," Langdon replied and rebuilt by Hadrian in 119 AD."

At the base of an Egyptian obelisk in the middle of St. Peter's Square, Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer) find the dying Cardinal Lamasse, and branded on his chest, the word "Air". The Illuminati have struck again!

One of the controversial things Dan Brown claims is that the villains of his story, the Illuminati, used the English language. They picked it because it was relatively obscure 400 yeas ago. Their enemy was the Catholic Church, which used Latin.

By choosing a language not widely spoken, the Illuminati effectively ended up with a kind of secret code.