A remarkably inventive and moving animated film about the onset of adolescence and the development of an inner life, Inside Out is set inside the mind of 11-year-old Riley Anderson (voiced by Kaitlyn Dias), whose driving emotion – literally – has been the officious, caring Joy (Amy Poehler), the girl's first feeling. But as Riley's circumstances change, Sadness (Phyliss Smith) comes to the fore, and when the duo get lost in the brain's neural backblocks Fear (Bill Hader), Disgust (Mindy Kaling), and Anger (Lewis Black) take over the emotional controls. Directed by Pete Doctor (Up), Inside Out acknowledges that childhood can be trying and that a rounded outlook requires the testing of resilience. The vocal performances are terrifically adept in what is a beautiful, bittersweet movie that stands as the first true Pixar masterpiece since 2004's The Incredibles.  Craig Mathieson

Cunnamulla Dreaming
NITV, 7.30pm

This documentary chronicles the development of a school play that had a powerful impact on its community in south west Queensland. The production was driven by the enthusiasm of Peter Cook, who originally came to Cunnamulla as part of an artist-in-residence program organised by the Queensland Theatre Company. He encouraged students at the local school to write, produce and perform a theatre piece that conveyed their feelings about their town and depicted the community through their eyes. A simple, eloquent account of an inspirational experience, the film is a moving testament to the unifying and transformative power of art.  Debi Enker

Pay: Airlock
Syfy, 8.30pm

It's nice to see some Australian sci-fi, but at just 50-odd minutes this web series cum short feature feels only half-finished and far too reliant on well-worn genre tropes. Aboard a lonely space station young security officer Jonah (Last Cab to Darwin's Mark Coles Smith) wants to take himself and his nascent psychic powers to a more exciting part of the galaxy. But then a mysterious ship appears, carrying a cargo of human refugees and, it seems, some sort of non-human menace. Space-station captain Koen (Dwaine Stevenson) receives orders that make our current asylum-seeker towback policy look like the teddy bear's picnic, and soon there's talk of murderous, shape-shifting aliens being on board. The not-so-special effects and overwhelming lack of tension leave it with little more than curiosity value.  Brad Newsome

Movie: X-Men (2000)
Ten, 8.30pm

Beginning with a scene of tragic fury at the gates of a Nazi death camp, Bryan Singer remade the comic book movie with his highly capable debut in a genre he's since driven to spectacle and excess. The Usual Suspects director focused on the sense of exclusion and discrimination carried in the Marvel Comics series, where a small, disparate band of individuals have made the next genetic leap, displaying powers that see them labeled mutants. As a metaphor for racism in America, the picture provides two philosophical anchors: a Martin Luther King (Patrick Stewart's Professor Xavier) and a Malcolm X (Ian McKellen's Magneto). The breakthrough performance came from a then relatively unknown Hugh Jackman as the surly, metal-clawed Wolverine. The barbed humour helped define a movie that now looks positively modest. Craig Mathieson