NAUGHTY OR NICE 2023

It's the time of year to spread some cheer, so start making a film list and check it twice, as we excitedly bring you Naughty or Nice!

For the entire month of December, Light House and Pálás will be bringing the most beloved festive films and cult Christmas classics to the big screen. This year's nice list includes Frank Capra's iconic IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE and 20th anniversary screenings of the utterly joyous ELF. The naughty list includes Stanley Kubrick's mysterious EYES WIDE SHUT and our annual trip to Nakatomi Tower in DIE HARD.

And we're finishing out the year in style with Sofia Coppola's MARIE ANTOINETTE in 35mm

See you in December for this year's superb selection of cinematic stocking fillers.

  • Elf

    Elf

    Will Ferrell stars as the ultimate fish out of water, Buddy, who as a baby crawls into Santa's toy bag and is whisked off to the North Pole, where he is raised as an elf. A misfit who grows to…

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    Director: Jon Favreau

    Genre: Comedy,Fantasy

    Release Date: 28-Nov-2003

    Fri 08 Dec
    18:00
    Sun 10 Dec
    17:30
    Mon 11 Dec
    16:20
    Wed 13 Dec
    20:30
    Sun 17 Dec
    12:10
    Fri 22 Dec
    18:00
    Sat 23 Dec
    12:00
  • Love Actually

    Love Actually

    Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England...

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    Director: Richard Curtis

    Genre: Comedy,Drama,Romance

    Release Date: 21-Nov-2003

    Fri 08 Dec
    20:20
    Thu 14 Dec
    17:45
    Fri 15 Dec
    15:00
    Fri 22 Dec
    14:50 20:30
    Sat 23 Dec
    20:00
  • The Red Shoes

    The Red Shoes

    In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s visually ravishing masterpiece, a young ballerina is torn between the demands of love and art. Like the heroine of Hans Christian Andersen’s source fairytale, whose magic shoes compel her to dance, Victoria Page –…

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    Director: Michael Powell

    Director: Emeric Pressburger

    Genre: Drama,Romance

    Release Date: 08-Dec-2023

    Fri 08 Dec
    20:40
    Sat 09 Dec
    11:20
    Sun 10 Dec
    13:00
    Tue 12 Dec
    15:30
    Fri 22 Dec
    17:50
  • It’s a Wonderful Life

    It’s a Wonderful Life

    Like overcooked poultry, Brussel sprouts and indigestion, It’s a Wonderful Life is a Christmas tradition. However, unlike these things, Frank Capra’s masterpiece is both tremendous fun and good for you. Far from being a saccharine, sentimental wallow, this film, in…

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    Director: Frank Capra

    Genre: Drama,Fantasy

    Release Date: 03-Dec-2021

    Sat 09 Dec
    15:00
    Sat 16 Dec
    12:00
    Tue 19 Dec
    15:00
    Thu 21 Dec
    15:20
    Sat 23 Dec
    18:40
  • Die Hard

    Die Hard

    One of the biggest films of the eighties, Die Hard was not only a box office smash, but it made a star of its leading man, Bruce Willis, and quickly became considered as one of the greatest action movies of…

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    Director: John McTiernan

    Genre: Action,Romance

    Release Date: 17-Feb-1989

    Sat 09 Dec
    21:15
    Sat 16 Dec
    19:00
    Wed 20 Dec
    20:30
    Fri 22 Dec
    15:00
    Sat 23 Dec
    17:00
  • Home Alone

    Home Alone

    An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation...

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    Director: Chris Columbus

    Genre: Comedy

    Release Date: 07-Dec-1990

    Sun 10 Dec
    15:00
    Wed 13 Dec
    18:00
    Sun 17 Dec
    17:15
    Wed 20 Dec
    18:00
    Fri 22 Dec
    12:30
    Sat 23 Dec
    12:10 16:20
  • Tokyo Godfathers (20th Anniversary)

    Tokyo Godfathers (20th Anniversary)

    In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people's lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. As the New Year fast approaches these three forgotten members of society band together to solve the…

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    Director: Satoshi Kon

    Genre: Animation,Comedy

    Release Date: 07-Oct-2003

    Mon 11 Dec
    18:35
    Sun 17 Dec
    20:30
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas

    The Nightmare Before Christmas

    Henry Selick delivers a delightful vision of Tim Burton’s Halloween-meets-Christmas tale.

    Jack Skellington of Halloween Town finds scaring people just isn’t fun anymore, so sets his sights on neighbouring Christmas Town, a place covered in snow and full of joy. However,…

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    Director: Henry Selick

    Genre: Animation,Fantasy

    Release Date: 16-Dec-1994

    Tue 12 Dec
    18:00
  • Tangerine

    Tangerine

    Tangerine, the gloriously queer alternative Christmas tale, is a rip-roaring odyssey, loaded with dry-wit and foul-mouthed comedy as it follows the lives and loves of a couple of transgender sex workers through the various subcultures of Los Angeles at Christmastime.

    …

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    Director: Sean Baker

    Genre: Comedy,Thriller,Drama

    Release Date: 09-Oct-2015

    Tue 12 Dec
    18:30
  • Royal Ballet 2023/24: The Nutcracker (Live)

    Royal Ballet 2023/24: The Nutcracker (Live)

    Join Clara at a delightful Christmas Eve party that becomes a magical adventure once everyone else is tucked up in bed. Marvel at the brilliance of Tchaikovsky’s score, as Clara and her enchanted Nutcracker fight the Mouse King and visit…

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    Genre: Event Cinema,Ballet

    Release Date: 11-Jul-2023

    Tue 12 Dec
    19:15
  • Santa Claus: The Movie

    Santa Claus: The Movie

    This is the story of a master toymaker who discovers a magical kingdom of elves in the North Pole and becomes Santa Claus. But when Santa's eager-to-please elf Patch leaves the North Pole for the big streets of New York…

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    Director: Jeannot Szwarc

    Genre: Family,Fantasy

    Release Date: 06-Dec-1985

    Wed 13 Dec
    15:20
    Tue 19 Dec
    18:15
    Sat 23 Dec
    14:30
  • Solve-Along-A Murder She Wrote

    Solve-Along-A Murder She Wrote

    Cult hit event Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote comes to town, with interactive screenings of classic Murder, She Wrote episodes. Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote is a unique and hilarious night featuring games, prizes and audience participation, with special permission from NBC Universal Television.

    December 15th Light…

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    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 15-Apr-2023

    Fri 15 Dec
    20:30
  • Eyes Wide Shut

    Eyes Wide Shut

    After Dr. Bill Hartford's (Tom Cruise) wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings…

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    Director: Stanley Kubrick

    Genre: Drama

    Release Date: 10-Nov-2022

    Fri 15 Dec
    21:00
    Sun 17 Dec
    17:30
  • The Shop Around the Corner

    The Shop Around the Corner

    Made between the more famous Ninotchka (1939) and To Be or Not to Be (1942), and now re-released, this is director Ernst Lubitsch’s supreme romantic comedy, a warmly affectionate study of the love, loneliness and friendship shared between a group…

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    Director: Ernst Lubitsch

    Genre: Comedy,Drama,Romance

    Release Date: 08-May-1940

    Sat 16 Dec
    12:30
  • Scrooged

    Scrooged

    In this modern take on Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol,' Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips (Karen Allen). But after…

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    Director: Richard Donner

    Genre: Comedy,Drama,Fantasy

    Release Date: 23-Dec-1988

    Sat 16 Dec
    22:00
  • Carol

    Carol

    Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven, May December) was the perfect director to bring Patricia Highsmith’s novel, The Price of Salt, a story of secret love, against a backdrop of 1950s glamour, to the big screen.

    Shopping for a Christmas…

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    Director: Todd Haynes

    Genre: Romance,Drama

    Release Date: 05-Oct-2015

    Sun 17 Dec
    14:30
    Wed 20 Dec
    18:00
  • Cinema Book Club: Die Hard

    Cinema Book Club: Die Hard

    One of the biggest films of the eighties, Die Hard was not only a box office smash, but it made a star of its leading man, Bruce Willis, and quickly became considered as one of the greatest action movies of…

    read more

    Director: John McTiernan

    Genre: Action,Romance

    Release Date: 17-Feb-1989

    Mon 18 Dec
    18:30
  • Marie Antoinette 35mm

    Marie Antoinette 35mm

    The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 14 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall…

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    Director: Sofia Coppola

    Genre: Drama,Biopic,Historical

    Release Date: 25-Oct-2023

    Sun 31 Dec
    15:00

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