Elf (Kids Cinema)

The Hub on Verulam is bringing Elf to its family cinema on Wednesday 23 December, just a few days before Christmas. It's Will Ferrell's Christmas comedy, the one where he plays a human raised as an elf in the North Pole who heads down to New York to find his father, and it's being screened as part of the venue's kids' cinema programme.

If you've seen it before, you know the drill: the fish-out-of-water humour, the oversized enthusiasm, and the sort of broad, warm comedy that works as well for the little ones as it does for the adults. It's a proper family-friendly choice for the run-up to the big day, and since it's in the kids' cinema, it's set up for a crowd of families rather than a late-night movie-going one.

Coming on the 23rd puts it right in that pre-Christmas window when you're probably looking for something to do with the kids before the house gets too chaotic. It's a mid-week screening, so it's an easy one to slot in a few days before the 25th, and it's in St Albans, so you don't have to venture far to get the family together for it.

Tickets are £8, and the screening is at The Hub on Verulam on Wednesday 23 December.