Animated, action-packed fantasy adventure set in a post-apocalyptic future where the human race has been destroyed by machines which they themselves created. All that exists, aside from a number of the machines, is a group of sapient rag dolls brought to life by a scientist in the final days of humanity who stumble upon 9 (voiced by Elijah Wood), another of their own kind. The group, consisting of war veteran and leader 1 (Christopher Plummer), frail inventor 2 (Martin Landau), non-verbal twins 3 and 4, engineer 5 (John C Reilly), vision-plagued artist 6 (Crispin Glover), brave fighter 7 (Jennifer Connelly), and dim but strong 8 (Fred Tatasciore), welcome 9 in the hope that he can help them muster the courage to battle the remaining machines and save what is left of the world. £5.99Buy Now9
Animated biopic of Monty Python's Graham Chapman. Using a number of audio recordings Chapman made before his death, fourteen different animation studios worked together for this film which collects snippets from his autobiography and turns them into a series of comedy skits. Fellow Python members John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin also contribute by voicing an assortment of characters who may or may not have crossed Chapman's path in life. £5.99Buy NowA Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Mon...
Animated science fiction feature directed by Shinji Aramaki. Deunan Knute and Briareos Hecatonchires (voice of Luci Christian and David Matranga) are hired by Two Horns (Wendel Calvert) to explore the dystopic ruins of New York to search for the city of Olympus. £5.99Buy NowAppleseed: Alpha-Shinji Aramaki
Six chronological, animated stories of the caped crusader, that fill in the gaps between 'Batman Begins' and 'The Dark Knight'. Combining the talents of three standout anime studios with noted anime directors, Shojiro Nishimi, Futoshi Higashide, Hiroshi Morioka, Yasuhiro Aoki and Toshiyuki Kubooka, the series charts Batman's progression from gifted amateur to fully-fledged crime-avenger. 'Have I Got a Story for You' tells how a group of kids are variously affected by their encounters with Batman. In 'Crossfire', Gotham City's police force are forced to conquer their distrust of the Dark Knight when they come under fire from the mob. 'Field Test' focusses on the vast array of weaponry and gadgets at Batman's disposal as he fights injustice, while 'In Darkness Dwells' has the caped-crusader locking horns with the sewer dwelling 'Killer Croc' and 'The Scarecrow'. 'Working Through Pain' explores Bruce Wayne's gruelling training regime, instigated by a mysterious Indian woman named Cassandra, while the final chapter, 'Deadshot', draws the chapters to a conclusion, with Batman having to stop a ruthlessly efficient assassin with few moral qualms. £3.99Buy NowBatman: Gotham Knight
Nasty adolescents Beavis and Butt-Head make their feature film debut as they travel the length and breadth of America when their television is stolen. Along the way, in classic road-movie fashion, they spout their views on everything from women to politics.
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It is the 1960s in France, and a young boy called Champion lives with his grandmother, Madame Souza, dreaming of winning the Tour de France. But before he competes he is kidnapped by the Mafia and taken to Belleville where his cycling skills are utilised. Madame Souza plans to rescue Champion with the help of 1930s jazz trio, The Triplets of Belleville and her trusty dog, Bruno.
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Sylvain Chomet writes and directs this French animation. In the 1960s, young orphan Champion lives with his grandmother, Madame Souza, and dreams of winning the Tour de France. But before he is given the chance to compete he is kidnapped by the French Mafia and taken to the city of Belleville where his cycling skills are utilised by the gangsters. When she follows her grandson's trail to Belleville, Madame Souza enlists the help of 1930s jazz trio The Triplets of Belleville and her trusty dog Bruno to help her find Champion.
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Academy Award-winning animated comedy by Walt Disney Studios featuring the voice talents of Scott Adsit and Ryan Potter. 14-year-old robotics genius Hiro Hamada (Potter) spends his days being a typical teenager, getting into fights and struggling to cope with his changing body. When his older brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney) becomes concerned that his brother is wasting his potential, he takes him to the robotics lab at his university where he introduces him to Baymax (Adsit), an inflatable robot created and developed by Tadashi himself. Programmed to take care of humans, Baymax starts to work with Hiro and encourages him to focus on his invention of microbots. When Hiro and Baymax discover that someone has been copying his ideas and creating microbots of their own, the pair team up to find the masked assailant. The film won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. £12.99Buy NowBig Hero 6
Japanese animated adventure in which an eleven year old boy gets a chance to change his destiny by entering a magic gateway into another world. However, while searching for the Tower of Fortune where he will be granted any wish, he must battle a world of demons as well as his own friends and, ultimately, himself. £9.99Buy NowBrave Story
A collaboration between Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba and Spanish designer Javier Mariscal, this animated feature is set in the vibrant bebop jazz scene of the late 1940s and early 1950s. When handsome and talented young jazz pianist Chico (voiced by Eman Xor Ona) meets sultry nightclub singer Rita (Limara Meneses) in Havana, the two quickly become a double act both on stage and in love. As they take their Cuban rhythms to the clubs of New York, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris, their turbulent relationship plays out its passions and heartbreaks to a soundtrack of Latin beats, ballads and bolero. Cuban pianist and composer Bebo Valdes provides the original score for the film, which also features the music of jazz greats including Cole Porter, Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie. £5.99Buy NowChico and Rita
Triple bill of spooky animated adventures. Tim Burton directs 'Coraline' (2009), a children's fantasy based on the novella by Neil Gaiman. After moving into her new home with her work-fixated parents, Coraline Jones (voice of Dakota Fanning) teams up with new friend Wybie Lovat (Robert Bailey Jr) to explore the neighbourhood. Deciding it's just as dull as she thought, she turns her attentions to her own house, where, after following a button-eyed mouse, she stumbles upon a hidden door. Crawling through the passage beyond, Coraline emerges into an eerie, parallel version of her own world. Initially bewitched by her strange new surroundings, where everything seems to revolve around her, Coraline soon has to fight tooth and nail to return home when her new mother (Teri Hatcher) tries to force her to stay. 'Monster House' (2006) features the voices of Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Kevin James. DJ Harvard (voice of Mitchel Musso) lives directly across the street from a most unusual house. A malevolent entity that longs to feed on the energy of the living, the once peaceful house that looms ominously outside DJ's bedroom window would like nothing more than the chance to feast on the children of the neighborhood. As Halloween begins to draw near and the children of the neighbourhood prepare for another long night of trick-or-treating, it appears as if it may be the house that is in for the biggest treat of all. '9' (2009) is a fantasy adventure set in a post-apocalyptic future in which the human race has been destroyed by machines which they themselves created. All that exists, aside from a number of the machines, is a group of sapient rag dolls brought to life by a scientist in the final days of humanity who stumble upon 9 (voiced by Elijah Wood), another of their kind. The group, consisting of war veteran and leader 1 (Christopher Plummer), frail inventor 2 (Martin Landau), non-verbal twins 3 and 4, engineer 5 (John C Reilly), vision-plagued artist 6 (Crispin Glover), brave fighter 7 (Jennifer Connelly), and dim but strong 8 (Fred Tatasciore), welcome 9 in the hope that he can help them muster the courage to battle the remaining machines and save what is left of the world.
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Triple bill of animated adventures. In 'Coraline' (2009), after moving into her new home with her work-fixated parents, Coraline Jones (voice of Dakota Fanning) teams up with new friend Wybie Lovat (Robert Bailey Jr.) to explore the neighbourhood. Deciding it's just as dull as she thought, she turns her attentions to her own house, where, after following a button-eyed mouse, she stumbles upon a hidden door. Crawling through the passage beyond, Coraline emerges into an eerie, parallel version of her own world. Initially bewitched by her strange new surroundings, where everything seems to revolve around her, Coraline soon has to fight tooth and nail to return home when her new mother (Teri Hatcher) tries to force her to stay. In 'ParaNorman' (2012), Norman (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is ostracised by his family and bullied at school because of his odd behaviour. What none of them know is that he is in continuous dialogue with the ghosts, ghouls, vampires and zombies that prowl his neighbourhood unseen. However, when the town comes under threat from a centuries-old curse, it is up to Norman to save the day. The film also features the voice talents of John Goodman, Casey Affleck and Anna Kendrick. In 'The Boxtrolls' (2014), below the streets of Cheesebridge live the Boxtrolls, a community of cave-dwelling and cardboard box-wearing creatures, who are believed to pose a threat to the citizens of the town and their children. However, in truth, they really pose no such threat and have even raised an orphaned boy, Eggs (Isaac Hempstead Wright), as one of their own. Archibald Snatcher (Ben Kingsley), a local pest exterminator, hatches a plan to get rid of the Boxtrolls for good as a means of securing his place within the town's cheese-loving elite. When the Boxtrolls hear of Archibald's plan it then falls to Eggs to save the day, since he is the only member of the group who can remain undetected on the city streets. He ventures above ground and soon befriends local rich girl Winnie (Elle Fanning), who agrees to help Eggs save his adopted family from extinction... £9.99Buy NowCoraline/ParaNorman/The Boxtrolls-Chris Butler
Animated adventure from popular director Tim Burton. Set in a 19th century European village, the film follows the story of Victor (voiced by Johnny Depp), a young man who is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride (Helena Bonham Carter), while his real bride, Victoria (Emily Watson), waits bereft in the land of the living. Though life in the Land of the Dead proves to be a lot more colourful than his strict Victorian upbringing, Victor learns that there is nothing in this world, or the next, that can keep him away from his one true love. £2.50Buy NowCorpse Bride
Set in the 21st century, the bounty hunting crew of the interstellar craft Bebop is chasing a hacker aboard a tanker into a major city in Mars. Crew member Faye Valentine witnesses the tanker's explosion, which is actually a viral terrorist attack and Faye is the only surviving witness. As the government send a squad to find those responsible, the Bebop crew begin their own investigation. £5.99Buy NowCowboy Bebop - The Movie
Animated feature following a hen who escapes a poultry farm but must confront new dangers in the wild. Daisy (voice of Stacey DePass) has long wished for freedom from the terrible conditions she is surrounded by at the farm. However, when she does manage to escape she quickly realises that other dangers lie in wait for her outside, specifically the one-eyed weasel which has been on her trail since she left... £3.99Buy NowDaisy - A Hen Into the Wild-Seong-yun Oh
This episodic animated adventure from the Film Roman anime studio is adapted from the 14th-century classic tale by Dante Alighieri. Six different directors have produced the six segments in contrasting animation styles to create a dark vision of the Nine Circles of Hell: Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery. The narrative follows Dante as he journeys through these stages of hell, visiting each of the nine circles of the Inferno in the hope of saving the spirit and soul of his true love Beatrice, who has been taken from him by the devil. £5.99Buy NowDante's Inferno - An Animated Epic
Animated sci-fi adventure based on the live-action films 'Pitch Black' and 'The Chronicles of Riddick'. Designed to bridge the gap between the two films, the story follows Riddick after he has escaped from captivity on an eclipsing planet and, along with his companions Jack and Imam, finds himself in confrontation with an inter-galactic bounty hunter. Can his death-defying combat skills and incredible night vision help to free him from the evil mercenaries? £5.99Buy NowDark Fury - The Chronicles of Riddick
Animated sci-fi horror sequel, based on the popular video game. In the year 2509, in the aftermath of the alien infection, the earth has lost touch with not only the deep-space mining ship, the USG Ishimura, but also the USG O'Bannon, sent to rescue them. With only four of the O'Bannon's crew remaining, each survivor's unique story is told, shedding light on the terrifying fate that befell the rest of the crew. £5.99Buy NowDead Space: Aftermath
Animated sci-fi horror that forms the backstory to the popular video game. In a distant part of the galaxy, the crew of a mining operation comes across a monolithic structure, evidence of extra-terrestrial life. When they subsequently remove the object with the intention of returning it to earth, they soon realise they've made a fatal error. As the crewmembers begin to become infected by an unknown and highly aggressive enemy, a deadly fight for survival ensues between the alien invaders and the embattled humans. £5.99Buy NowDead Space: Downfall
Both feature-length instalments of the animated sci-fi horror, based on the popular video game. In 'Dead Space: Downfall' (2008), the crew of a mining operation in a distant part of the galaxy comes across a monolithic structure, evidence of extra-terrestrial life. When they subsequently remove the object with the intention of returning it to Earth, they soon realise they've made a fatal error. As the crew members begin to become infected by an unknown and highly aggressive enemy, a deadly fight for survival ensues between the alien invaders and the embattled humans. In 'Dead Space: Aftermath' (2011), it is the year 2509, and in the aftermath of the alien infection, Earth has lost touch with not only the deep-space mining ship, the USG Ishimura, but also the USG O'Bannon, sent to rescue them. With only four of the O'Bannon's crew remaining, each survivor's unique story is told, shedding light on the terrifying fate that befell the rest of the crew. £5.99Buy NowDead Space: Downfall/Aftermath