The Roxy cinema, Ulverston, is gearing up for a feast of entertainment in the run-up to Christmas.

White Christmas, the Irving Berlin musical starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera Ellen, starts the celebrations on Sunday December 16 at 5.pm

Mary Poppins Returns, from the Disney studio, is the Christmas holiday’s main attraction this year. Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives. The film opens on Friday December 21.

Then on Christmas Eve at 11am there will be a showing of “It’s a wonderful life”, the all-time favourite Christmas film from 1946, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore, which has become a traditional annual treat at the Roxy. Frank Capra's classic tells the tale of a small-town philanthropist whose loan company has gone bust and who is saved from suicide by an elderly angel (Henry Travers). Stewart wishes he had never been born, but Travers shows him what a hell-hole his home town would have been without him.

"We have a lot to offer this year,” said the Roxy’s proprietor Charles Morris. “We will be offering free mince pies at 'It's a wonderful life', while stocks last.

Tickets are available in advance for It’s A Wonderful Life; either collect from the cinema or phone 01229 582340.