When her marine-biologist father (Gerard Butler) goes missing, plucky Nim (Abigail Breslin) e-mails for help to her favourite writer, Alex Rover.

Expecting Alex to be a dashing hero like in the novels, it turns out that Rover is a woman (Jodie Foster) terrified to leave her apartment - nothing like her rugged alter ego. ***

See Phrang (4bia)

Four frightening stories from four Thai directors about a lonely young woman who receives a mysterious SMS, students with a deadly talisman, boys on a jungle adventure and a scared flight attendant alone on a plane with a dead body as its only passenger. With English subtitles at some cinemas. ****

The Eye

Oxide and Danny Pang's 2002 thriller is remade by Hollywood, with Jessica Alba starring as a blind woman who starts seeing dead people after receiving a corneal transplant. **

No Regret

Struggling to balance his university studies with working in a factory, Sumin (Lee Young-Hun) loses his job and becomes a male prostitute in an upmarket boy brothel. There, he starts a relationship with a rich young guy (Lee Han). In Korean with English and Thai subtitles at House.

Thevada Tha Ja Theng

Popular comedians Kotee Aramboy and Theng Terdterng share the big screen for the first time in this story of a bumbling likay performer (Theng) who, with the help of his guardian angel (Kotee), hopes to win the heart of the lovely superstar Fah (Bongkot Kongmalai). With English subtitles in some cinemas. ***