Indiana, 1940; nine-year-old Ralphie dreams of his ideal Christmas gift, a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot Carbine Action Air Rifle. But when his gruff dad and doting mom regularly respond with "You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!" Ralphie mounts a full-scale hint-dropping, Santa begging campaign. A screwball festive comedy delightfully adapted from Jean Shepherd's book. find out more...

All-singing, all-dancing musical extravaganza with a cast completely composed of mind-bogglingly talented children. Scott Baio is sinisterly covincing as the legendary gangster while Jodie Foster shows more than a glimmer of her Oscar-winning talent as his moll. Funny and hugely entertaining. find out more...

It's wartime (the 1940s to be precise) and daddy Green has been despatched to fight the dreaded Hun leaving Mrs Green overworked, underpaid and having to cope with her 3 boisterous brats. To make matters worse the children are being joined by two snotty spoilt young city cousins, cue the arrival of Nanny McPhee (Mary Poppins with warts), a lady who rules both with an iron rod and with a touch of magic in her fingers. Meanwhile Mrs Green's cad of a brother-in-law Phil is trying to con her into se find out more...

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Wee Angus lives as a servant's son in a large manor house alongside a Scottish loch. One day he discovers a mysterious egg and takes it home, where it hatchs and grows and grows, acquires the name Crusoe and becomes Angus's best mate. Being WW2 the 12th Medium Regiment Royal Artillery are camped nearby to keep the loch secure, but they wouldn't know a Kelpie, a supernatural shape-shifting water horse, from a U-boat, putting Crusoe in a wee bit of danger. But being a family film don't worry be ha find out more...

A remarkable film which combines animation in the best American tradition with real live actors - all bound together in an archetypal Private Dick plot. Bob Hoskins is marvellous as the detective who has to cope with the peculiarities of the Toons. Anyone who has ever enjoyed a cartoon will love this. find out more...