Editor's Choice - Film & TV

Since The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was first published in 2005, Steig Larsson's Millennium Trilogy of crime novels have become a worldwide phenomenon.

The success of the novels spawned the inevitable Swedish film versions and US re-makes of those are already generating a buzz.

The film adaptation of the second book in the series, The Girl who Played with Fire, has just been released. Crime writer Michael Carlson reviews the film for The Strand.

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee.

After a career of hits and misses including the rapturously received Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain, as well as the panned Hulk, Ang's back.