When Steven Soderbergh started thinking about Haywire, his new action pic, the director of the recently released Contagion, and films such as Traffic and the Ocean’s series, knew that he wanted a lead person who could kick butt and cause some major mayhem.

In the post-apocalyptic thriller The Divide, New York City is nuked into oblivion, and the residents of a glitzy high rise apartment building – played by Lauren German, Michael Biehn, Courtney B. Vance, and Rosana Arquette, among others, escape the blast by hiding out in the building’s bunker- like basement.

As the dark clouds of World War 1 mass over Europe, Albert (Jeremy Irvine), a British farm boy, shares a special bond with a horse named Joey in Steven Spielberg’s long awaited and highly anticipated War Horse

When it comes to today’s fright movies, BBC Films’ The Awakening is a wonderful respite from the countless teen slasher and torture porn pics which have plagued our big screens in recent years.

Stunts, action, car chases and a gun wielding Amanda Seyfried may be hot eye candy in In Time, but director Andrew Niccol, believes audiences will also love the film’s central theme.

Texas Killing Fields concerns two cops on the hunt for a serial killer that dumps his victims in a marsh called The Killing Fields.

Revolving around a very unfriendly and murderous alien creature, which can transform itself into a replica of any living being, the new version of The Thing is a prequel to director John Carpenter’s 1982 film of the same name.