'9' is a toy living in a desolate post-apocalyptic future who allies with some ragtag straw dolls in order to defeat The Beast, a giant stalking mechanical cat. The scenery is bleak, the tone sombre, the digitalization impressive, but the characters are adult-allergic in this ambitious and original neo-Manga. find out more...

Azur is the blue-eyed fair-haired child, Asmar his olive-skinned soulmate, one wet-nursed by and the other the natural child of an Arab slave in the Christian West. After years of seperation, and as young adults, the two meet again, this time in an Arab world of souks, vivid textiles, beautiful gardens, technology, elaborate palaces and smiling people. Now they both seek the same goal, to rescue and marry the legendary Djinn fairy. find out more...

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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Following Cobain from his earliest years in Aberdeen, WA, through the height of his fame, a visceral and detailed cinematic insight of an artist at odds with his surrou find out more...

When Coraline's parents move to the back of beyond and bury themselves in their work their seriously bored daughter decides to go in search of her own entertainment. Coraline stumbles upon a small portal that introduces her to an alternative world where her mum and dad care and the shabbiness of her real existence has been transformed into a wonderous place of beauty and adventure, but perfect places can sometimes hide a dark secret, as our heroine soon begins to discover. Directed and created b find out more...

Mr Fox has become responsible, he's given up rebellious, instinctive pastimes like raiding the farmers' chicken coops, cider and other nocturnal activities in order to get a regular job and play being dad... but one last chicken snatching adventure seems just like one for the road. Wes Anderson does family friendly animation in this superb adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic. find out more...

 

 

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...

Adam Elliot's follow-up to his short opus 'Harvie Krumpet' is a tour-de-force of jaw-dropping animation, heart-wrenching beauty and exquisite sadness. Ostensibly, it's a tale of friendship between two pen pals; Mary, a lonely eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year-old obese man living in New York and suffering from Asperger's syndrome. The depth of pathos in their quasi-romantic exchanges becomes unbearable at times, but the expertly nuanced narrati find out more...

It's a wolf-eats-duck world. But it's a world in which little boys can find extraordinary courage and - with a little help from a crazy bird and a dreamy duck (and none whatsoever from a fat, lethargic cat and two hooligan hunters) - can catch the wolf. A beautifully animated version of the classic tale with a rousing score by the Philharmonic Orchestra. Oscar winner for Best Animated Short Film, 2008. find out more...

Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff. This is one of the most eccentric animated films you'll ever see: an affectionate homage to westerns, with explosive action sequences and lashings of well-judged humour and tenderness. It even has room for a few nods to the psychadelic world of Hunter S. Thompson! Rango is a dark, witty, and entertaining ride that's also fairly mature for an animate find out more...