'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...

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...

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...