Post-apocalyptic Earth is now a barren wasteland, where people kill for things humans once threw away.

Harry, Ron and Hermione: Relax. You could whip Percy Jackson and his pals with your wand hands tied behind your backs.

Hong Kong martial artist, Donnie Yen (甄子丹), strikes a proverbial chord with a righteous swing and an arsenal of kickass moves in the newly released “14 blades.”

Springing with such dizzying, dazzling force from the mind of its maker, “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” might as well have been titled “The Imagination of Terry Gilliam.”

In the latest action adventure to emerge out of Asia, Taiwanese director, Kevin Chu (朱延平), brings to the big screen a desert-biking versus horse riding, modern-day and ancient-world adventure.

Embark upon a voyage into a period of Chinese history stained by the blood of rebellion against the tyrannical Qing dynasty in the newly released “Bodyguards and Assassins,” featuring an all-star cast including famed martial artist Donnie Yen (甄子丹), singer Nicholas Tse (謝霆鋒), and A-list star Leon Lai (黎明).

Off the back of his last major motion picture, “Titanic,” the highest grossing film of all time at nearly US$2 billion, James Cameron needs no introduction despite having waited 12 years for his next picture's release.

The latest incarnation of Arthur Conan Doyle's analytical “Sherlock Holmes,” starring Robert Downey Jr. as the Baker Street detective and Jude Law as Watson, his cohort in crime-solving, opens on Christmas Eve.

Wind, Cloud and a bunch of other pretty boys play silly buggers with magical powers and sharp, pointy blades in the newly released “The Storm Warriors II.”

If you like martial arts and sword fighting, then give “Ninja Assassin” a shot. But be prepared to see body parts and heads sliced apart, because this action movie about a young ninja's revenge against his cruel trainers is a total gore-fest.