'Avatar' tells the story of a future conflict between resource-guzzling humans and the indigenous inhabitants of the planet Pandora: the Na'vi. Paraplegic marine Jake runs an avatar; a genetically engineered crossbreed controlled via a mental link. Sent to spy on the `enemy` Jake falls for Na'vi princess, Neytir, and their tribal lifestyle, forcing him to choose sides when the human invasion escalates into full-blown war. There's no escaping the quality of the CGI in Cameron's blockbuster, but find out more...

Will's dad, Edward Bloom, is the teller of the most fantastical flights of fancy, and everyone loves him for it, except Will, whose had to live with the emotionally absent man rather than the imaginative adventurer. Tim Burton's latest film is a visually ravishing return to form, a place of witches and giants, beauty and wonder, and though Ewan Mcgregor is no Johnny Depp, hell……it could have been worse....think Planet of The Apes for god's sake! find out more...

Hailed as the best film debut since Eraserhead, Donnie Darko's instant cult status and mainstream success are well deserved. find out more...

Hailed as the best film debut since Eraserhead, Donnie Darko's instant cult status and mainstream success are well deserved. find out more...

On an isolated Atlantic island a settlement of Vikings are having their stock decimated by dragons. Training as a dragon-slayer young Hiccup really hasn't got the heart for killing and befriends a young dragon. It is from this dragon that he learns of their true nature, but it will take a sea change of political thinking to end the pointless war between dragons and humans. .
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 Disney's take on the Tony-winning original musical by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim A twist on the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and The Beanstalk and Rapunzel.

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Cocteau's version of the famous fairytale which, with its fantastic set design, set standards never bettered. The love story between woman and beast, in a fantasy world inside his enchanted castle, is both erotic and tragic, and this bewilderingly, beautiful and mystifying film is often seen as an allegory for a wounded France recovering from the Nazi occupation. Pure genius. find out more...

It all really kicks off in Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's second book; Frodo and Samwise team up with Gollum in their continuing quest, Aragorn's posse prepare for a last stand at Helmsdeep, the Ents get energised and a mighty new white wizard emerges from the forests. The Two Towers has a darker vision than The Fellowship but Tolkien's work remains very much intact, a sweeping epic, both moving and visually mind blowing. Some of the battle scenes are so powerful they defy description, tho find out more...

Frodo and Sam make their last push towards Mount Doom where they must destroy the ring and bring about the end of Sauron's spreading darkness. Aragorn finally acknowledges his role as the peoples King and Gandalf gets a lot of repressed anger off his chest in the many battles against the dark lord's minions. The final instalment of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy sets new heights for the term ‘epic'; visually the film is breathtaking and against the odds Jackson manages to keep the varying t find out more...

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