Hiro is a something of a tech kid prodigy but, having just showcased the merits of micro bots, finds someone else has decided to use them for evil. With the help of an unlikely big white health robot called Baymax and a bunch of enjoyably quirky sidekicks, Hiro takes on the forces of evil in an effort to save the day. A fun film with some good gags, great robots and swell animation.

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Scrat’s pursuit of the nirvana acorn causes yet another continental cataclysm which plunges our three bestest buddies into yet another perilo find out more...

Set in rural Japan during the 1950s, Tatsuo Kusakabe and his two daughters, Mei and Satsuki, have moved to the country to be near their ailing mother who resides at a local hospital. As the girls explore their surroundings, the younger sibling, Mei, believes that the forest is inhabited by magical creatures, much to the amusement of her father and sister. However, one day Mei gets lost in the forest and discovers a group of Totoros - protectors of the forest. Eventually Mei convinces Satsuki to find out more...

Anders Ronnow-Klarlund has pulled off something of a coup here. Billed as the first 'fully integrated' puppet feature, though the seminal Team America must have come a close second. Strings treads a very different terrain to the Parker/Stone collaboration though. The tone is more evocative of classical myth from one of the ancient civilisations. It deals with suicide, piety, long burning grudges, hidden identity, political corruption, greed, sexual desire and destiny. The style is reminscent of find out more...

The nearest you'll ever get to a psychedelic experience without having to crawl around fields picking poison fungi or buying dodgy stuff at festivals. Still a brilliant cartoon after all these years, a trip through the design styles of the 60s - the soundtrack's not bad either! find out more...

The year is 2700 and Earth is polluted, barren and exhausted. Wall-E is the last of a group of clean-up robots sent to restore Earth by lifting and compressing the endless quantities of rubbish left behind by a human race that has withdrawn to the safety of space. But with the arrival of an environmental scout robot, Wall-E discovers something he never expected... love. Pixar's latest animation is a beautifully rendered ecological tale that deftly avoids preaching, and though sweet, is never sac find out more...