The Marvel Comic vividly 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.

Jeff Bridges co-stars. ****

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. ****

Speed Racer

The classic Japanese cartoon is adapted for the big screen by the Wachowski brothers ("The Matrix") in a candy-coloured blend of computer animation and live action, following the gifted driver Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) in his fight with the villains who are attempting fix races. Christina Ricci co-stars. **

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. **

Deception

An accountant (Ewan McGregor), hoping to spice up his humdrum life, is introduced to a mysterious sex club by a lawyer acquaintance (Hugh Jackman), and is soon the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million-dollar heist. **