'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...

Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...

In a not far off dystopian future women have become infertile and governments have forgotten that Orwell's ‘1984' was supposed to be a searing indictment of what NOT to do. Into this less than hopeful world arrives a young woman who has achieved the miracle of pregnancy, everyone wants the child as a cynical totem for the people, and those planning rebellion are as ruthless as those in power. Finding a reluctant but increasingly determined guardian in the form of Theo, mother and child go in sea find out more...

Two astronauts land on a planet populated by apes, but these chimps are no chumps and the men find themselves imprisoned and at the mercy of their furry captors. The enigma of the planet's history, juggled through Heston's humiliating experience of being studied as an interesting laboratory specimen by his ape captors, right down to his final startling rediscovery of civilisation, is quite beautifully sustained. One interesting fact is that the aristocratic orangutan Dr. Zaius was originally to find out more...

 

A bereaved scientist attempts to create a cure for Alzheimer's, resulting in a supernaturally intelligent chimp named Caesar. The ape’s character swiftly evolves from wide-eyed innocent to reluctant revolutionary while, ironically, never losing his ‘humanity’. Once it kicks off the blemish less CGI action is a joy to behold, an find out more...