This festive week we present two films we missed the chance to screen on their initial release, plus a family favourite continues and we welcome the return of a bonafide Christmas classic!

Firstly, to help ease you into the feel-good mood come and be enchanted by the gorgeous Hugo 3D (until Thu 29 Dec). Scorsese's first 3D film, this great family adventure is based on Brian Selznick's award-winning book, and is a fantastical thing of beauty. Set in Paris in the 1930s, it follows Hugo, a young orphan who teams up with Isabelle to solve a mystery left behind by his father - a puzzle that involves a key, a toymaker, a broken automaton and even a sneaky lesson in early film history. And remember, we don't charge you extra for seeing a film in 3D at Watershed.

Next up is The Skin I Live In (from Fri 23 Dec) Pedro Almodovar's fantastically twisted tale of a brilliant plastic surgeon (Antonio Banderas) obsessed with creating an artificial skin. He lives in a palatial home complete with an operating theatre, where he experiments on a beautiful guinea pig (Elena Anaya) he keeps in captive isolation. Who is she? What's her story? And what happened to his family? To reveal too much would be to spoil its multiple surprises - but suffice to say Almodovar takes a seemingly ridiculous storyline and turns it into a superb Frankenstein's monster of a film.

Did you miss Midnight in Paris (from Fri 23 Dec), the most commercially successful film of Woody Allen's career? Owen Wilson stars as a screenwriter transported back to 1920s Paris to spend his evenings with Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald, Cole Porter, Dali and friends in a more gilded age. The trouble is, will he ever want to come back? A lovely cinematic soufflé of nostalgia and romance, and just right for this time of year.

Finally, MGM Christmas classic Meet Me In St Louis will be bringing its classic festive cheer to our screens from Tue 27 - Thu 29 Dec. Judy Garland, The Trolley Song, Skip To My Lou, The Boy Next Door, and, of course, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas: it doesn't get much more innocently delightful than this.

And to brighten up the drab days of January we have The Artist: a simply joyous, hilarious and enjoyable ode to silent comedy - already the frontrunner for the Golden Globes - and, surely, the Oscars! Opening on Fri 6 Jan - book your advance tickets now and have some joy to look forward to...

We close early at 17:00hrs on Fri 23 Dec and will then remain shut on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day and will reopen as usual on Tue 27 Dec. Then on New Year's Eve we close early at 17:00, are closed on New Year's Day and reopen on Mon 2 Jan 2012.

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