Thanks to a certain sparkly tweeny franchise, werewolves have lost a lot of their street cred over the years. Director Joe Johnston tried to get the lycanthropes back on the badass path with The Wolfman, but that fell a bit short of the mark. Now it’s the turn of X-Men and X2 screenwriter David Hayter, who’s making his debut in the director’s chair with …

I’ve been a fan of Jason Momoa’s ever since he was slicing and dicing Wraiths over on Stargate: Atlantis. He had an intense physicality about him that I felt would actually make him a good fit for the Conan reboot. Uh… Yeah, the less said about that movie the better. Since then though, with his turn in Game of Thrones …

As inconceivable as it may seem, arguably the best action star in Hollywood right now is a 60-year old Irish man. Since Taken, Liam Neeson has been on an ass-kicking world tour that’s seen him face off against human traffickers, corrupt cops and shady conspiracies. And now in director Joe Carnahan’s The Grey, he’s even taking on Mother Nature herself. …

From wolves to thoroughbreds, monkeys to Julia Roberts, it’s a very critter-centric weekend at the movies – with the following new releases hitting cinemas… The Grey: My pick of the week is this survival thriller from the creative team responsible for 2010’s A-Team movie. After a plane crash in the Alaskan wilderness, Liam Neeson attempts to lead the small band of …