Megan is an all-American girl. She's a cheerleader and has a boyfriend, but she doesn't like kissing him very much, and she's pretty tactile with her cheerleader friends, and she only has pictures of girls up in her locker. Her parents and friends conclude that she *must* be gay and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, full of admittedly homosexual misfits, where she can learn how to be straight. Will Megan be turned around to successful heterosexuality, or will she succumb to her love for the beautiful Graham?

Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern's mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.

An animated fantasy-adventure. Set one thousand years from now, the Earth is ravaged by pollution and war. In the Valley of the Wind lives Nausicaä, Princess of her people. Their land borders on a toxic jungle, filled with dangerous over-sized insects. Meanwhile, two nearby nations are bitterly engaged in a war and the Valley of the Wind is stuck in the middle.

A talented American graduate of Oxford, using his unique skills, and audacity, creates a marijuana empire using the estates of impoverished British aristocrats. However, when he tries to sell his empire to a fellow American billionaire, a chain of events unfolds, involving blackmail, deception, mayhem and murder between street thugs, Russian oligarchs, Triad gangsters and gutter journalists.

April 1917, the Western Front. Two British soldiers are sent to deliver an urgent message to an isolated regiment. If the message is not received in time the regiment will walk into a trap and be massacred. To get to the regiment they will need to cross through enemy territory. Time is of the essence and the journey will be fraught with danger.

Marcus and Mike have to confront new issues (career changes and midlife crises), as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.

2020 film directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah

2019. 31 years after being destroyed during World War 3, Tokyo (now 'Neo-Tokyo') has been rebuilt and is a thriving metropolis. Shotaro Kaneda is the leader of a biker gang. His friend Tetsuo is injured in an accident and taken to a top-secret government facility. He develops telekinetic powers but decides to use them for evil rather than good. He has the same powers as Akira, the force that destroyed Tokyo in 1988, and now it appears that history will repeat itself.

The protagonist is a boozing loser. He can set a fresh course and set things right, but chooses not to. He has a part-time job, but does not try or try hard enough. He is either absent or careless. Instead he lives with a room-mate who subsists on government assistance and goes drinking with him when he can be on time, keep his promise and go on a date with his colleague who for some reason fancies him. It is a matter of his future.

Two-time Oscar®-winner Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. After a jaded magazine writer (Emmy winner Matthew Rhys) is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about empathy, kindness, and decency from America's most beloved neighbor.

Sato is 27 years old, lives in the northern prefecture of Sendai and is single. He is searching for the spark and explosion that will change his life and give him love and romance. He decides to position himself in front of the train station and solicit answers from the commuters through a survey. A woman with style halts to help. Coincidentally, there is something distinctive about her.

Mami doesn't have a job and is closed off in her own world. Her father Eisuke struggles to strike the right distance from her and worries about her future, so he finds her a job debugging video games. She silently plays video games for a job that wasn't supposed to involve talking with anyone, but things don't go as planned.

Hyakaou Academy is a private and elite institute that has catered to the well-to-do for over a century. The academic ranking is based on the pupils' gambling winnings. The best are rewarded by prestige, status, wealth and lording over the bottom ranks. Yumeko is new to the academy. Her pretty enchantress looks are only surpassed by her voracious appetite to gamble it all and win it all.

I made a vow that I'd steer clear of going overboard in my cinema diet and ensure that my 2020 diary would end up less than 200 entries long after hitting that record two years running, but err, *nervous laughter*, this is a bit much, don't you think?

My trips to the cinema 2020

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My trips to the cinema 2019

My trips to the cinema 2016

My trips to the cinema 2014

As you can see, I started to get a little choosier this year.

My trips to the cinema 2007

My trips to the cinema 2021

Mistakes were made this year.
-Paul Blart
-Transformers 2
-Paying £34 to endure 2012 with my Mum
-Not looking deeper into the Barbican’s family film festival when it was my only chance to see The Princess and the Frog before 2010
-Deciding to end the year with Planet 51 rather than, well, Sherlock

My trips to the cinema 2009

Back then, I would see anything made for children but thought Corpse Bride would be too eerie until before it was released on DVD. Hey, the older the wiser, right?

My trips to the cinema 2006

The year I was introduced to film festivals, was welcomed back to where the Museum of the Moving Image once stood and almost made a new home in the smelliest cinema nearby, before discovering what multiplex I should have been visiting all along.

1995 American animated film directed by John Lasseter

2004 US-Canadian-UK animated film directed by Robert Zemeckis

My trips to the cinema 2004

It’s my 25th year of existence. I survived the chaos. I can travel by myself on the overground, the underground and the bus. I know how to get myself to the ICA, I thirst for celluloid more than ever before, I have a lifetime membership at the Prince Charles Cinema and the BFI Southbank is screening animation all year round. Also, the cinema at my favourite shopping centre now has reclining seats.

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Let’s do this.