Jim Carrey dominates this latest version of the classic Dickens story in which an elderly Victorian miser is taken on a redemptive trip through his past, present and future. Using 'performance capture' animation this stylish film sticks closely to the book, though with added ghoulishness.
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A brilliant reworking of Alice in Wonderland by surrealist Czech filmaker Jan Svankmajer. Alice, the only human in the film, falls into a terrifying Wonderland populated by animated puppets and full of truily bizarre visuals; she changes size, becomes her own doll, when the White Rabbit loses his stuffing he simply secures his gaping chest with a safety-pin and eats the sawdust, eggs crack to reveal skulls, rolls sprout nails, steaks crawl..... but the very best scene is definitely the tea party find out more...

A dazzling blend of fantasy and music in this beautiful animated version of the Lewis Carroll tale. Alice is bored and follows a white rabbit down into a warren, hereby entering the famous fantasy world. find out more...

Orwell's classic satire on Stalinist Russia as done by Jim Henson's workshop with added digital animation technique. find out more...

The creatures outside look from pig to man and from man to pig and from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which. The first full length cartoon ever made in the UK was financed by the CIA and, except for the more up-beat ending, sticks faithfully to the plot. Based on Orwell's profoundly wrong view of the Soviet Revolution. find out more...

A delightful animated adaptation of the classic children's book, with the kind natured spider who can weave words and the farmyard pig who becomes her best friend. I loved the book, I loved the film, though I'll grant you.....that was a couple more than a couple of years ago. find out more...

From the master of the comic, the scary and the bizarre; four of Roald Dahl's best loved children's tales. find out more...

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Horton the Elephant hears a cry for help coming from a speck of dust and, even though he can't see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in the city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home, but this gives him nothing but grief from his mammalian neighbours, who refuse to believe that anything so tiny could sustain a world. Still, Horton stands by the motto that "a person is a person, no matter how sm find out more...

An adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic story. The animated central section is sandwiched by stylised live-action sequences and it beautifully captures the book's free-floating, fantastic sense of adventure and wonder. Forced into a life of drudgery by his evil aunts, Sponge and Spiker (Margolyes and Lumley), orphan James dreams of escape to New York. An old man (Postlethwaite) appears and gives the boy a jigging handful of fluorescent, magical crocodile tongues, a dead peach tree bears a gigantic find out more...