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. ***

Horton Hears a Who

"A person's a person no matter how small" is the central theme of the beloved short story by Dr Suess, about an elephant who finds a tiny speck that contains an entire world. Jim Carrey and Steve Carell are among the voices in this cartoon. **

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. **

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. ***

Iron Man

The Marvel Comic comes to the big screen with Robert Downey Jr in the title role as Tony Stark, a wisecracking billionaire weapons maker who dons a hi-tech suit of armour. ****