Backyard Cinema Snow Kingdom
Hidden at the end of an ice tunnel near London’s Borough market is this aptly wintry cinema, offering cocktails and seasonal screenings. All the festive mainstays – Elf, The Santa Clause, Love Actually – are accounted for, along with some unseasonal outliers – GoldenEye, anyone?
Until 28 January, Mercato Metropolitano, Borough, London.
The Muppet Christmas Carol
If your appetite for all things Dickens hasn’t been sated by The Man Who Invented Christmas, a rather more gonzo take on his most famous work returns to screens, as Kermit, Rizzo, Miss Piggy and co teach Michael Caine’s Scrooge the true meaning of the season.
From 2 December, cinemas across the UK.
Gremlins screening, plus Q&A with Zach Galligan
The definitive Christmas film for people who don’t like Christmas, Joe Dante’s horror comedy skitters back on to screens across the country, accompanied by a live Q&A with star Zach Galligan.
2 December, Picturehouse, Liverpool; 3 December, Quad, Derby; 4 December, Phoenix, Leicester; 5 December, Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds; 6 December, Chapter Arts centre, Cardiff; 7 December, Electric, Birmingham; 8 December, BFI Southbank, London; 9 December, Queen’s film theatre, Belfast; 10 December, Glasgow film theatre.
It’s a Wonderful Life
It wouldn’t be Christmas without Frank Capra’s yuletide tale of despair and disillusionment. The film returns to cinemas across the UK this month, while Birmingham Cathedral hosts two special screenings complete with carols from the Bourneville Graduates Choir.
16-17 December, Birmingham Cathedral.
Christmas film festival, Cambridge
Enchanted Cinema brings a festival of festive films for a good cause: all proceeds go to the East Anglia Children’s Hospital. Showings include Love Actually, Frozen and an autism-friendly screening of The Polar Express.
16 December, Robinson theatre, Cambridge.
Snö Garden
A free-entry winter wonderland at Liverpool’s Camp and Furnace, complete with screenings of The Grinch, Miracle on 34th Street and more, plus – because we’re probably not going to get any of the real thing – a snow machine.
18-23 December, Camp and Furnace, Liverpool.
