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• 2020
• 1h
• U

• Directed by: Declan Doyle
• Cast: Rafferty Railton, David Threlfall, Eve Bentley

Bing, Flop, Sula and Sula's cousin Nicky open presents and tell festive stories. Also includes the episodes 'Leaf Pictures', 'Face Paint' and 'Puppet Show'.

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• 2017
• USA
• 1h 37min
• U

• Directed by: Tom McGrath
• Written by: Marla Frazee/Michael McCullers
• Cast: Miles Christopher Bakshi, Alec Baldwin, Tobey Maguire, Steve Buscemi

The Boss Baby (Baldwin) is a tot with the mannerisms of a ruthless corporate tycoon, who upsets seven year old Tim (Bakshi). The frantic visual style and crude slapstick overwrite the charm of the original story by Marla Frazee, and there’s not much for audiences to take to their hearts.

• 63%
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• 2021
• UK
• 1h 49min
• 12A

• Directed by: Aml Ameen
• Cast: Aml Ameen, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Aja Naomi King, Claire Skinner

Inspired by writer, director, and star Aml Ameen's life, Boxing Day follows Melvin (Ameen), a British author living in America, who returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée, Lisa (King), to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancée has left behind.

• 66%

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• 2021
• US
• 1h 37min
• PG

• Directed by: Walt Becker
• Cast: Darby Camp, Jack Whitehall, Izaac Wang, John Cleese, Sienna Guillory, Tony Hale

A young girl's love for a tiny puppy makes it grow to an enormous size.

• 60%

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• 2021
• US
• 2h 35min
• 12A

• Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
• Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Zendaya, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen

The director of Blade Runner 2049 takes a crack at Frank Herbert's notoriously unfilmable sci-fi epic. The story is to be split across two films.

• 82%

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• 2003
• US
• 1h 36min
• PG

• Directed by: Jon Favreau
• Written by: David Berenbaum
• Cast: Will Ferrell, Bob Newhart, Ed Asner, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Mary Steenburgen

Buddy (Ferrell) is a big Elf who, though accepted in his Elvish community at the North Pole, manages to wreak havoc on a daily basis. Fed up and confused by his charge, Papa Elf (Bob Newhart) sends him to the US in search of his true identity. Hilarious and puerile Yuletide comedy.

• 70%
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• 2021
• US
• 1h 39min
• PG

• Directed by: Byron Howard, Jared Bush
• Cast: Stephanie Beatriz, John Leguizamo, María Cecilia Botero, Diane Guerrero, Jessica Darrow, Angie Cepeda, Wilmer Valderrama

A Colombian girl is frustrated at being the only member of her family without magic powers.

• 76%

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• 2021
• US
• 2h 37min
• 12A

• Directed by: Chloé Zhao
• Cast: Salma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Brian Tyree Henry, Dong-seok Ma, Lia McHugh, Lauren Ridloff

Another team of superhumans from the pages of Marvel comic books.

• 68%

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• 2021
• US
• 2h 4min
• 12A

• Directed by: Jason Reitman
• Cast: Mckenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard, Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Celeste O'Connor, Logan Kim

Another instalment for the ever popular Ghostbusters franchise. This is a sequel to the first two films and is directed by Jason Reitman, son of their director, Ivan Reitman.

• 77%

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• 2009
• UK / US
• 2h 33min
• 12A

• Directed by: David Yates
• Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

While the sixth installment in the Harry Potter franchise does venture into darker, more adult areas than its predecessors it also injects more humour and character development than previous encounters, which doesn't always make for a satisfying concoction. Yates picks up in the aftermath of a spectacular attack on London by Death Eaters and builds towards the death of a key character that will pre-empt the final confrontation between Harry and Lord Voldemort in two-part finale, The Deathly Hallows.

• 76%
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• 2010
• UK / US
• 2h 26min
• 12A

• Directed by: David Yates
• Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

The seventh installment of the wildly popular wizard franchise is an atmospheric but emotionally hollow and rather rushed take on Rowling's original, with a strong performance from ever-dependable Grint but little else to recommend it other than as an appetiser for next summer's grand finale.

• 77%
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• 2011
• UK / US
• 2h 10min
• 12A

• Directed by: David Yates
• Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

The end has arrived for Harry and happily the last installment really satisfies with its breakneck pacing, breathtaking set-pieces and a genuinely heart-warming ending.

• 81%
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• 1990
• US
• 1h 43min
• PG

• Directed by: Chris Columbus
• Written by: John Hughes
• Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Catherine O'Hara

Peter and Kate McCallister (Heard and O'Hara) have an eight-year-old brat and wisely – albeit accidentally – leave him behind in Chicago when they go on holiday to Paris. Left to his own devices young Kevin (Culkin) has to deal with two bungling burglars (Pesci and Stern) who threaten to invade his peaceful haven. Jolly, if sadistic, scare-comedy antics produced by teen flick veteran John Hughes.

• 76%
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• 2021
• US
• 2h 37min
• 15

• Directed by: Ridley Scott
• Cast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Salma Hayek, Al Pacino

The turbulent marriage and divorce of Patrizia and Maurizio Gucci, the head of the Gucci fashion house, leads to murder.

• 70%

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• 2021
• US
• 2h 18min
• 12A

• Directed by: Reinaldo Marcus Green
• Cast: Will Smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, Tony Goldwyn, Jon Bernthal

Venus and Serena Williams came from an unlikely background to dominate the world of tennis. Taking a look these tennis superstars and how they became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.

• 76%

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• 2021
• 1h 25min
• 12A

• Directed by: Sung Sin-Hyo, Oh Yoon-Dong

K-pop documentary.

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• 1992
• US
• 1h 25min
• U

• Directed by: Brian Henson
• Cast: Michael Caine, Steven Mackintosh, Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz, David Rudman, Steve Whitmire

It's Christmas time, and nasty old miser Scrooge (Caine) needs to be taught a lesson by three seasonal ghosts. Colourful version of Dickens' classic tale that will please the kids and keep the adults smiling with its little irreverent spices.

• 77%
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• 1993
• US
• 1h 16min
• PG

• Directed by: Henry Selick
• Cast: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix, Ken Page

Jack Skellington, the skinny trickster king of Halloweentown, is restless with success and needs a new challenge, so he hatches a plot to kidnap Santa and creates a mixed-up Yuletide which isn't quite what the kids expected. Produced and based on a story and characters by Tim Burton.

• 80%
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• 2021
• UK
• 2h 43min
• 12A

• Directed by: Cary Joji Fukunaga
• Cast: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Lea Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Jeffrey Wright, Ana de Armas, Dali Benssalah, David Dencik, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen

The 25th James Bond film is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and sees Daniel Craig in the lead for one last time.

• 74%

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• 2021

The former Blue Peter presenter puts on another pantomime in his garden.

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• 2021
• UK
• 1h 20min
• 15

• Directed by: Reggie Yates
• Cast: Elliot Edusah, Jordan Peters, Reda Elazouar, Kassius Nelson, Youssef Kerkour, Rebekah Murrell

Three eighteen-year-old friends travel across London on New Year's Eve 1999.

• 59%

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• 2021
• US / Germany
• 1h 46min
• 15

• Directed by: Johannes Roberts
• Cast: Kaya Scodelario, Hannah John-Kamen, Robbie Amell, Tom Hopper, Avan Jogia, Donal Logue, Neal McDonough

Set in 1998, this origin story serves as a reboot of the Resident Evil film franchise.

• 56%

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• 2021
• UK / US
• 1h 46min
• PG

• Directed by: Sarah Smith
• Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Olivia Colman, Ed Helms, Justice Smith, Rob Delaney, Kylie Cantrall, Ricardo Hurtado, Marcus Scribner, Thomas Barbusca

Ron receives a faulty robot for his birthday and together they find friendship.

• 71%

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• 2021
• 12A

The Royal Ballet | Live

The Nutcracker is a family favourite at Christmas time and is one of the most delightful ways to discover the enchantment of ballet. The story of Clara, a girl on a magical Christmas Eve adventure, is accompanied by sparkling music and even dancing sweets! Watch the full company of The Royal Ballet in this much-loved ballet classic.

Akane Takada (The Sugar Plum Fairy), Cesar Corrales (The Prince), Christopher Saunders (Herr Drosselmeyer), Isabella Gasparini (Clara), Luca Acri (Hans-Peter/The Nutcracker)

Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House

Conducted By Koen Kessels

Choreography Peter Wright After Lev Ivanov

Music Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky

Original scenario Marius Petipa

Production and scenario Peter Wright

Designer Julia Trevelyan Oman

Lighting designer Mark Henderson

Production consultant Roland John Wiley

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• 2021
• UK / US / Germany / Chile
• 1h 51min
• 12A

• Directed by: Pablo Larraín
• Cast: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Farthing, Sean Harris, Sally Hawkins

Pablo Larraín’s sublime ‘fable from a true story’ imagines a Christmas weekend at Sandringham in the early 1990s, as an unhappy Princess Diana contemplates saying ‘no’.

As played with intoxicating perfection by Kristen Stewart, who dominates almost every scene of Spencer, Diana is dying on the vine, showing only flashes of her former effervescence. Hers is the world’s most scrutinised persona since she began living the fairy-tale life of a girl who grew up to marry a prince; in reality, her husband rather publicly loves someone else. She’s also suffocating under the expectations of total subservience to Royal protocol. Working from a beautiful script by Steven Knight, Larraín (Jackie) ingeniously depicts a world in which every polished spoon and heavy curtain, every steely stare from staff, even a seemingly ‘jolly’ Christmas tradition, expresses Her Majesty’s disapproval of the young princess. The exquisite craft of Spencer makes you want to freeze every moment. director of photography Claire Mathon (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) shoots in 4:3 ratio with a micro-universe of colour emerging from the muted environments designed by Guy Hendrix Dyas. And Jonny Greenwood illuminates Diana’s internal tussle with solo piano and strings. It’s oppressive, until it isn’t anymore. Stewart and Larraín deliver a finale that will break your heart and make it skip all at once.

• 70%

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• 2021
• UK
• 53min
• U

Five favourite Timmy Time episodes plus a special Christmas treat.

The episodes are Timmy’s Snowball, Timmy’s Monster, Timmy’s Christmas Surprise, Timmy’s Snowman and Timmy Slips Up.

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• 2021
• US
• 1h 30min
• 15

• Directed by: Andy Serkis
• Cast: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, Woody Harrelson

An eccentric and largely entertaining superhero sequel.

• 61%

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• 2021
• US
• 2h 36min
• PG

• Directed by: Steven Spielberg
• Cast: Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Mike Faist, Josh Andrés Rivera, Corey Stoll, Brian d'Arcy James, Rita Moreno

Directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner, West Side Story tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City, inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. This reimagining of the beloved musical stars Ansel Elgort as Tony and Rachel Zegler as María, as well as Rita Moreno, who won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Anita in the 1961 film version of West Side Story, playing a reconceived and expanded version of the character of Doc, the owner of the corner store in which Tony works.

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