A brilliant reworking of Alice in Wonderland by surrealist Czech filmaker Jan Svankmajer. Alice, the only human in the film, falls into a terrifying Wonderland populated by animated puppets and full of truily bizarre visuals; she changes size, becomes her own doll, when the White Rabbit loses his stuffing he simply secures his gaping chest with a safety-pin and eats the sawdust, eggs crack to reveal skulls, rolls sprout nails, steaks crawl..... but the very best scene is definitely the tea party find out more...

A dazzling blend of fantasy and music in this beautiful animated version of the Lewis Carroll tale. Alice is bored and follows a white rabbit down into a warren, hereby entering the famous fantasy world. 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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In this lavish epic animation, a tale of battling sorcerers, from Studio Ghibli, Ged/Sparrowhawk is a wandering wizard investigating how dragons can be entering the realm of humans. He teams up with Prince Arren, a teen with a dark side, he murdered his father, and an infatuation for Thera, a girl he rescues from slavery. Together they must restore the Balance. find out more...

Steven Spielberg directs this adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel starring Mark Rylance as the Big Friendly Giant. The film follows Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) as she is whisked away from her orphanage by the BFG and taken to Giant Country where she is immediately at risk of being eaten by the other, larger giants, including Fleshlumpeater (Jemaine Clement) and Bloodbottler (Bill find out more...

Disney's superb cartoon version of Hans Christian Andersen's famous tale of a beautiful mermaid, who longs to become human after falling in love with a prince whom she saves from drowning. Great animation, especially the underwater scenes, some fun singalong songs, at long last Disney began to recognize the importance of pop in children's movies. All in all a lot better than some of Disney's immediately preceding kids' films. find out more...

Volume 1 and half of volume 2 of Tolkien's classic are filmed using animation and live action tracings and sticks very closely to the script. The story starts in peaceful Shireland and ends rather suddenly at the Battle of Helm's Deep........... find out more...

Tinker Bell is born from the first laugh of a newborn baby and brought by the winds to Pixie Hollow, Never Land. Here she meets the other fairies and learns that her talent is to be a tinker, a fairy who makes and fixes things. The other tinkers teach her their craft and she is able to repair a ballerina music box using parts found washed up on the beach, but when she tries to learn other arts, like tending animals or capturing the dreaded thistles, she fails miserably, accidentally destroying t find out more...