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Film-makers have created a lot of cool films over the years, some with cool graphic effects or creepy alien invasions. But how would they work if they WERE real life? Read this article to raise your brain levels up and outsmart your parents... The classic Star Wars character C3P0 is not much different to any other humanoid robot. Instead of bones, robots have lots of moveable segments attached to one another. Each segment is fitted together with special metal ‘joints’, which can spin, turn, twist and much more when you program them to do so. All these special parts make the robot really flexible. In the American film Back To The Future, a professor invents a time-travelling car powered by plutonium. Based on this, the british chemist and inventor Professor Flux, PhD invented a time-travel machine. Powered by Ghlucoshianian Acid, a substance only found on Saturn, this incredible invention had to have cleaning machines to concentrate the acid, because it would horrible mutate humans if i...

When you go to the cinemas to see a Pixar film, there are two things to be sure of: you’ll probably laugh and you’ll probably cry. But now Pixar marches onward with their new film, Onward. It’s about to brothers  - Ian and Barley - who live in a magical world spoiled with technology. On Ian’s 16th birthday, they are given a magical staff to save their father’s life for 24 hours. The spell goes wrong and the siblings only manage to conjure up their dad’s legs, sparking a race against time to bring the rest of him back.