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Fantastic Mr Fox is a bright-eyed bushy tale

23.10.09

Director Wes Anderson chooses homemade kookiness over CGI trickery for his take on Roald Dahl�s classic Fantastic Mr Fox � the result is charming. ... more

Take all your family to see Up

09.10.09

Animation reaches new heights with a powerful myth that touches the part in all of us that remains for ever a child in Up.... more

Animation hits a new high in Up

05.10.09

Up - Disney Pixar's latest hit, about an elderly widower who takes his house airborne with helium balloons, sets a dazzling new benchmark in 3D animation. ... more

Sony launches first home 3D TV

03.09.09

Sony will launch the first home 3D TV next year. The new sets will use special glasses with electronic shutters which fool the brain into thinking it is seeing a three dimensional image... more

Cineworld boosted by discount days

20.08.09

Cineworld, the London-focused cinema chain with seven screens in Piccadilly�s Trocadero Centre, said bargain-hunting Britons helped it post an 18% increase in revenue to �161.9 million for the three months to July ... more

Action and animation from Disney in G-Force

31.07.09

Disney has combined 3D live action and animation to tell the story of three guinea pigs trained to work in human espionage in G-Force.... more

Check out the biggest movies this summer

05.06.09

Sacha Baron Cohen's new comic creation, the latest instalment from Harry Potter at Hogwarts and adventures in the land of lizard men - here is our guide to the biggest movies of the season... more

Cannes is Up and away with Pixar�s 3D cartoon beauty

13.05.09

The Cannes Film Festival got underway today with the Disney/Pixar film Up, the first time the prestigious opening slot has gone to an animated film... more

Monsters Vs Aliens is spaced out

02.04.09

A giant woman fights off aliens in the unusually imaginative romp that is Monsters Vs Aliens.... more

A funding worry to chew over

27.02.09

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What a Peter Pan-orama

27.02.09

Parts of Kensington Gardens are to be transformed for the first staging of Peter Pan in the park it made famous around the world... more

Animators in the frame for award

20.02.09

Two east London animators will be up against the biggest names in the industry at the Oscars... more

Bolt is a perky dog's tale

05.02.09

There's no doubt that Bolt cuts the mustard as a technically brilliant piece of animation. It gives us something to savour.... more

Must-have gadgets of 2009

09.01.09

Three-dimensional home televisions and a watch that doubles as a mobile phone have been revealed as this years must-have gadgets... more

Best DVDs of 2008

19.12.08

From The Dark Knight to Curb Your Enthusiasm, here are DVDs not to be without.... more

Waltz with Bashir is landmark in animation

20.11.08

Waltz with Bashir, a remarkable creation by a former Israeli soldier, vividly captures the horror of the war he fought in.... more

No Fear(s) of the Dark

02.10.08

A collection of short stories from 10 of the world's cutting-edge graphic artists ought to be more satisfying than Fear(s) of the Dark.... more

Space Chimps is one for the kids

31.07.08

Space Chimps is pacy, full of humour rather than thrills and not too long. Not for connoisseurs of animation but fun for the young.... more

How green was my Wall-E?

23.07.08

Wall-E has been criticised for preaching green politics to kids. So is the battered yellow robot the world's first ecological superhero?. ... more

WALL-E: Family space odyssey has wall-to-wall robotic fun

17.07.08

Pixar has created their most appealing character yet in WALL-E, who deserves to stand alongside Babe and ET as representatives of family film at its finest.... more

Wall-E is not so rubbish

17.07.08

The cautionary tale of a robot cleaning Earth after humans have fled, Wall-E breaks new ground for computer animation.... more

Summer Blockbusters for the thinking fan

20.06.08

Prince Caspian gets the blockbuster season rolling - there are lots more big movies to look forward to. This year the emphasis is on brains as well as brawn.... more

A car crash of a movie

08.05.08

The Wachowski brothers' manga-inspired motor racing thriller Speed Racer is more video game than cinema, says Derek Malcolm.... more

DVDs of the week

12.02.08

A magical feast for the eyes in Ratatouille, the award-winning Control, and Jodie Foster wastes her talent in The Brave One.... more

Animated beauty

07.02.08

The beauty of Azur and Asmar: The Prince's Quest makes it worth a look, inspired as it is by, among other things, Persian miniatures.... more

A bit of a buzz from Seinfeld

13.12.07

Jerry Seinfeld takes the lead in Bee Movie, a film that has intermittent wit and never enough memorable moments.... more

DVDs of the week

13.11.07

Escapism of the highest order in the fifth Harry Potter film, Jimmy Carr chruns out some more gags and fun with Little Britain Abroad.... more

There's a rat in my soup

11.10.07

Ratatouille is so brilliantly imagined that you wonder how a computer can possibly have achieved it, says Derek Malcolm.... more

Animated conversation

08.10.07

Animated films should be aimed at everybody, not just at children, says the genre's golden boy, Brad Bird.... more

Duck, it's heading straight for you

29.03.07

The most intriguing thing about Meet the Robinsons is that its shot in 3D. Once you've got over ducking when things are thrown into the foreground, you begin to tire of this mediocre story.... more