Winter Film Season
7 Dec, 2024 – 31 Dec, 2024
£7 – £10
Jodrell presents Winter Cinema in the Space Dome.
With an impressive 15 screenings lined up, with all-festive classics including Elf, Home Alone, Love Actually, Die Hard and It’s a Wonderful Life, as well as a few more recent numbers!
As a special festive treat in the dates running up to Christmas, the site will be magically illuminated from 4pm. Please note the afternoon screening between Christmas and New year will not have festive lights on exit.
Take a look at the list below and plan your trip to the movies!
Booking Information
- Tickets start at just £7.
- Afternoon films start promptly at 2:30pm.
- For afternoon films, you need to have a visitor ticket to the site. Then simply add the daytime movie of your choice.
- Evening films start promptly at 6pm, simply book the event of your choice. Annual tickets are not required as the remainder of the site will be closed.
Please note, these films are not immersive planetarium shows, and will be shown as 2D cinema-style screenings within the dome.
Further information about film screenings can be found here.
Please let us know if you have any access requirements before the event so we can best support you by contacting jodrellbank@manchester.ac.uk. Find out more about our accessibility here.
Afternoon Films – 2:30pm start
Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn’t quite understand the concept.
- Date & Time: 2:30pm, Saturday 7th December 2024
- Run Time: 76 minutes
- Certificate: U
First, book your annual ticket or return visit for the correct date, then add the daytime movie of your choice.
When a department store Santa is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer (Dylan McDermott) argues that he is the real thing in this charming update on the beloved original.
- Date & Time: 2:30pm, Sunday 8th December 2024
- Run Time: 110 minutes
- Certificate: U
First, book your annual ticket or return visit for the correct date, then add the daytime movie of your choice.
The fabulous Muppets band together to teach Scrooge (Michael Caine) the meaning of Christmas in this charming adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale.
- Date & Time: 2:30pm, Sunday 15th December 2024
- Run Time: 90 minutes
- Certificate: U
First, book your annual ticket or return visit for the correct date, then add the daytime movie of your choice.
When little Kevin McCallister is accidentally left behind when his family dashes off on a Christmas trip, he is left to defend his family’s home from two bumbling burglars until the relatives return.
- Date & Time: 2:30pm, Saturday 21st December 2024
- Run Time: 103 minutes
- Certificate: PG
First, book your annual ticket or return visit for the correct date, then add the daytime movie of your choice.
One Christmas Eve, a long time ago, a small baby crawled into Santa’s bag of toys during a stop at an orphanage. Undetected by Santa, the child was accidentally whisked back to the North Pole. Once discovered, the boy was quickly taken under the wing of Santa’s most trusted helper and raised as an elf. But when he grew three sizes larger than everyone else in Santa’s workshop, it became clear that Buddy would never truly fit into the elf world. So Buddy decided to set off for New York City, in search of his roots and his real father.
- Date & Time: 2:30pm, Sunday 22nd December 2024
- Run Time: 95 minutes
- Certificate: PG
First, book your annual ticket or return visit for the correct date, then add the daytime movie of your choice.
Evening Films – 6pm Start
George Bailey (James Stewart), beset with many personal problems, attempts a Christmas time suicide before an angel intercedes and shows him what his hometown would be like without him.
- Date & Time: 6pm, Saturday 7th December 2024
- Run Time: 130 minutes
- Certificate: U
A woman plagued by man trouble finds her fortune improves when she befriends an Englishwoman while on vacation.
- Date & Time: 6pm, Sunday 8th December 2024
- Run Time: 138 minutes
- Certificate: 12A
New York policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) flies to Los Angeles bearing presents and hoping to patch up his marriage. Hans Gruber is in LA to take bearer bonds from the Nakatomi Corp, where McClane’s wife Holly is an executive. When the takeover becomes hostile, it’s up to McClane to take on the terrorists with all the grit and determination he can muster–but not without a sense of humour.
- Date & Time: 6pm, Sunday 15th December 2024
- Run Time: 132 minutes
- Certificate: 18
When little Kevin McCallister is accidentally left behind when his family dashes off on a Christmas trip, he is left to defend his family’s home from two bumbling burglars until the relatives return.
- Date & Time: 6pm, Saturday 21st December 2024
- Run Time: 103 minutes
- Certificate: PG
The characters are falling in love, falling out of love, some are with the right people, some are with the wrong people, some are looking to have an affair, some are in the period of mourning; a capsule summary of reality. Love begins and love ends. They flirt a lot. They are all flirting with love. At all ages and social levels, love is the theme. Romantic love and brotherly love is the hotchpotch through out the movie. Most of the movie is filmed in London, during Christmas and the characters all ended up at Heathrow airport a very uplifting note.
- Date & Time: 6pm, Sunday 22nd December 2024
- Run Time: 130 minutes
- Certificate: 15
Twixmas Afternoon Films – 2:30pm start
When little Kevin McCallister is accidentally left behind when his family dashes off on a Christmas trip, he is left to defend his family’s home from two bumbling burglars until the relatives return.
- Date & Time: 2:30pm, Friday 27th December 2024
- Run Time: 103 minutes
- Certificate: PG
First, book your annual ticket or return visit for the correct date, then add the daytime movie of your choice.
One Christmas Eve, a long time ago, a small baby crawled into Santa’s bag of toys during a stop at an orphanage. Undetected by Santa, the child was accidentally whisked back to the North Pole. Once discovered, the boy was quickly taken under the wing of Santa’s most trusted helper and raised as an elf. But when he grew three sizes larger than everyone else in Santa’s workshop, it became clear that Buddy would never truly fit into the elf world. So Buddy decided to set off for New York City, in search of his roots and his real father.
- Date & Time: 2:30pm, Saturday 28th December 2024
- Run Time: 95 minutes
- Certificate: PG
First, book your annual ticket or return visit for the correct date, then add the daytime movie of your choice.
Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn’t quite understand the concept.
- Date & Time: 2:30pm, Sunday 29th December 2024
- Run Time: 76 minutes
- Certificate: U
First, book your annual ticket or return visit for the correct date, then add the daytime movie of your choice.
When little Kevin McCallister is accidentally left behind when his family dashes off on a Christmas trip, he is left to defend his family’s home from two bumbling burglars until the relatives return.
- Date & Time: 2:30pm, Monday 30th December 2024
- Run Time: 103 minutes
- Certificate: PG
First, book your annual ticket or return visit for the correct date, then add the daytime movie of your choice.
Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn’t quite understand the concept.
- Date & Time: 2:30pm, Tuesday 31st December 2024
- Run Time: 76 minutes
- Certificate: U
First, book your annual ticket or return visit for the correct date, then add the daytime movie of your choice.