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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An adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic story. The animated central section is sandwiched by stylised live-action sequences and it beautifully captures the book's free-floating, fantastic sense of adventure and wonder. Forced into a life of drudgery by his evil aunts, Sponge and Spiker (Margolyes and Lumley), orphan James dreams of escape to New York. An old man (Postlethwaite) appears and gives the boy a jigging handful of fluorescent, magical crocodile tongues, a dead peach tree bears a gigantic find out more...

From the creators of Toy Story comes the third instalment of their groundbreaking animation. Sulley and Mike work at Monsters Inc, a huge factory in Monstropolis that turns the screams of children into energy, the two of them are very good at their job, i.e. terrifying kids, but when one little girl returns to their world all hell breaks loose. Monsters Inc is not up there with the Toy Story films, it lacks the adult wit of the first two and indeed the depth of character, but that said it's stil find out more...

After being caught drawing an obscene comic book, a group of Catholic school friends plan a prank to make them local legends. An intelligent, thoughtful and well acted coming of age drama that effectively mixes animated flights of fantasy with the real characters. find out more...

When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to leap backwards through time she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems; eventually she finds that in order to save her own future, and that of her friends, she will have to use her new powers more responsibly. Another breathtakingly created and imagined Japanese animation, based on the novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. find out more...

Iron Giant is based upon a story that Ted Hughes told his children following the death of their mother, Sylvia Plath. Set in 1958, it is a lyrical tale about a giant metal machine that falls from the sky and frightens a small town in Maine. A lonely boy, Hogarth, befriends the kind-hearted alien and, hiding the giant from his mother, teaches him to communicate. The greatest threat, however, comes from the military who are out to destroy this metallic threat to wholesome America. The animation find out more...

A remarkable film which combines animation in the best American tradition with real live actors - all bound together in an archetypal Private Dick plot. Bob Hoskins is marvellous as the detective who has to cope with the peculiarities of the Toons. Anyone who has ever enjoyed a cartoon will love this. find out more...