The new season - to run until February next year - features the festive titles A Boy Called Christmas, Home Alone and Love Actually, as well as kids flicks Clifford the Big Red Dog, Encanto, Jungle Cruise, Sing 2 and more.

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For the adults, highlights include Don't Look Up, starring A-listers Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo Dicaprio, the new Wes Anderson film The French Dispatch and Lady Gaga's House of Gucci.

Pack a picnic or grab dinner and drinks from one of the food trucks and onsite bar, before sitting down to enjoy a movie under the stars.

An FBI profiler pursuing the world's most wanted art thief becomes his reluctant partner in crime to catch an elusive crook who's always one step ahead.

Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, Dwayne Johnson

Martial-arts master Shang-Chi confronts the past he thought he left behind when he's drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

Stars: Simu Liu, Awkwafina and Meng'er Zhang

Emily Elizabeth meets a magical animal rescuer who gives her a little red puppy - and wakes up to find a giant, 10-foot hound in her small New York apartment.

Stars: Darby Camp, Jack Whitehall, Izaac Wang and David Alan Grier

Eight couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

Stars: Hugh Grant, Keira Knightley, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson

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

Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Catherine O'Hara

An ordinary young boy called Nikolas sets out on an extraordinary adventure into the snowy north in this Christmas origin story.

Cast: Henry Lawfull, Maggie Smith and Kristen Wiig

Encanto tells the tale of the Madrigals, a family who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a charmed place called an Encanto.

Cast: Stephanie Beatriz, Diane Guerrero and Wilmer Valderrama

See January and February's program here.

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