2020 was obviously a highly disruptive year - both for the making of cinema, and showcasing the final product. Leading to Disney’s Mulan for instance being launched on the Disney+ platform versus an official cinema release.

It follows that a number of 2020 film premieres got delayed and postponed into 2021 - while I feel this year will largely be equally disruptive and more than a few productions will be needed to be saved by Netflix or Amazon - and will end up getting their premier online.

Four of the films I featured last year are carried over - and I fully expect there to be more delays until Coronavirus is fully under control and at a 70% level of heard immunity. A lot of films are still jostling around the release schedule - and I feel that if cinema’s aren’t fully open in April - which is highly likely, then James Bond / No Time To Die will be pushed back a few more months.

2021 will see a lot of intended 2020 movies released, while I feel that some of this year’s releases may well be pushed into 2022.

A number of these don’t have official release dates yet - while I’m assuming that Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch will feature at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in May.

There are some great releases happening this year, while the Disney/Marvel/Lucasfilm enterprise seems to be having a relatively quite year release-wise - obviously more focused on producing all those new TV Shows for the Disney+ channel.

These were my favourite films of 2020 and - where I viewed them :

Parasite - Cinema (Korean)
Jojo Rabbit - Cinema
1917 - Cinema
The Lighthouse - Cinema
Mank - Netflix
Blood Machines - Shudder / Amazon
Bacurau - MUBI / Amazon (Brazilian)
Queen & Slim - Amazon Prime Free
Hamilton - Disney+
The Personal History of David Copperfield - Cinema

I’ve already reported that I used to attend the cinema on a weekly basis - most Saturdays really, while in 2020 I only turned up 7 times - obviously because of the pandemic.

10 Films Most Looking Forward to See in 2021

These are the 10 movies that most excite for 2021 - every indication is that it will be a good year for Tom Cruise!; ordered by release date :

Nomadland (February)
Last Night in Soho (April)
No Time To Die: James Bond (April)
The French Dispatch (May)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (June)
Top Gun: Maverick (July)
Dune (October)
The Last Duel (October)
Mission: Impossible 7 (November)
The Matrix 4 (December)

January

76 Days - Dir. Hao Wu / Weixi Chen [MTV Documentary Films]
Archive - Dir. Gavin Rothery [Vertical Entertainment]
Assassins - Dir. Ryan White [Greenwich Entertainment]
Baby Done - Dir. Curtis Vowell [Piki Films]
Blithe Spirit - Dir. Edward Hall [Sky Cinema]
Dear Comrades! - Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky [Andrei Konchalovsky Studios]
Doom Room - Dir. Jon Keeyes [Highland Myst Entertainment]
Fatima - Dir. Marco Pontecorvo [Picturehouse]
Felix and the Hidden Treasure - Dir. Nicola Lemay [10e Ave / Animation]
Idiot Prayer - Dir. Robbie Ryan [Trafalgar Releasing]
Imperial Blue - Dir. Dan Moss [Imperial Blue]
MLK/FBI - Dir. Sam Pollard [IFC Films]
Monster Hunter - Dir. Paul W. S. Anderson [Sony Pictures]
Stardust - Dir. Gabriel Range [IFC Films]
Synchronic - Dir. Justin Benson / Aaron Moorhead [Well Go USA Entertainment]
The Exception - Dir. Jesper Westerlin Nielsen [Parkland Entertainment]
Wonder Woman 1984 - Dir. Patty Jenkins [Warner Bros. Pictures]
Wrong Turn: The Federation - Dir. Mike P Nelson [Saban Films]

February

Another Round - Dir. Thomas Vinterberg [Nordisk Film]
Antlers- Dir. Scott Cooper [Searchlight Pictures]
Cinderella - Dir. Kay Cannon [Sony Pictures]
Everybody's Talking About Jamie - Dir. Jonathan Butterell [20th Century Studios]
Freaky - Dir. Christopher Landon [Universal Pictures]
Freshmen Year - Dir. Cooper Raiff [Vertigo Releasing]
Judas and the Black Messiah - Dir. Shakira King [Warner Bros. Pictures]
Malcolm & Marie - Dir. Sam Levinson [Netflix]
Minamata - Dir. Andrew Levitas [American International Pictures]
Nomadland - Dir. Chloé Zhao [Searchlight Pictures]
Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway - Dir. Will Gluck [Sony Pictures]
Promising Young Woman - Dir. Emerald Fennell [Focus Features]
PVT Chat - Dir. Ben Hozie [Dark Star Pictures]
The Croods: A New Age - Dir. Joel Crawford [Universal Pictures]
The Mauritanian - Dir. Kevin Macdonald [STX Entertainment]
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run - Dir. Tim Hill [Paramount Pictures]
The Truffle Hunters - Dir. Michael Dweck [Sony Pictures Classics]

March

Ammonite - Dir. Francis Lee [Lionsgate]
Black Bear - Dir. Lawrence Michael Levine [Momentum Pictures]
Chaos Walking - Dir. Doug Liman [Lionsgate]
Coming 2 America - Dir. Craig Brewer [Amazon Studios]
Minari - Dir. Lee Isaac Chung [A24]
Morbius - Dir. Daniel Espinosa [Marvel / Sony Pictures]
Nobody - Dir. Ilya Naishuller [Universal Pictures]
Raya and the Last Dragon - Dir. Don Hall [Walt Disney Studios/ Animation]
Sound of Metal - Dir. Darius Marder [Amazon Studios]
Supernova - Dir. Harry Macqueen [StudioCanal]
The 8th - Dir. Aideen Kane / Lucy Kennedy [Fork Films]
The Boss Baby: Family Business - Dir. Tom McGrath [Universal Pictures]
The Father - Dir. Florian Zeller [Lionsgate]
The King's Man - Dir. Matthew Vaughn [20th Century Studios]
The Many Saints of Newark - Dir. Alan Taylor [Warner Bros. Pictures]
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - Dir. Tom Gormican [Lionsgate]
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse - Dir. Stefano Sollima [Amazon Studios]
Tom & Jerry - Dir. Tim Story [Warner Bros. Pictures]
Wildfire - Dir. Cathy Brady [Modern Films]

April

A Quiet Place: Part II - Dir. John Krasinski [Paramount Pictures]
Bob's Burgers: The Movie - Dir. Loren Bouchard [20th Century Studios]
BIOS - Dir. Miguel Sapochnik [Universal Pictures]
Fatherhood - Dir. Paul Weitz [Sony Pictures]
Last Night in Soho - Dir. Edgar Wright [Universal Pictures]
Limbo - Dir. Ben Sharrock [MUBI]
Mortal Kombat - Dir. Simon McQuoid [Warner Bros. Pictures]
No Time to Die (James Bond) - Dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga [Universal Pictures]
Reminiscence - Lisa Joy [Warner Bros. Pictures]
Ron's Gone Wrong - Dir. Jean-Philippe Vine [20th Century Studios]

May

Black Widow - Dir. Cate Shortland [Marvel / Walt Disney Studios]
Cruella - Dir. Craig Gillespie [Walt Disney Studios]
F9 (Fast & Furious) - Dir. Justin Lin [Universal Pictures]
Free Guy - Dir. Shawn Levy [20th Century Studios]
Godzilla vs. Kong - Dir. Adam Wingard [Warner Bros. Pictures]
Infinite - Dir. Antoine Fuqua [Paramount Pictures]
Rumble - Dir. Hamish Grieve [Paramount Pictures]
Shadow in the Cloud - Dir. Roseanne Liang [Vertical / Redbox Entertainment]
Spiral: Book of Saw - Dir. Darren Lynn Bousman [Lionsgate]
The French Dispatch - Dir. Wes Anderson [Searchlight Pictures]

June

Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Dir. Jason Reitman [Sony Pictures]
Luca - Dir. Enrico Casarosa [Pixar / Walt Disney Studios]
Marry Me - Dir. Kat Coiro [Universal Pictures]
Samaritan - Dir. Julius Avery [United Artists]
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It - Dir. Michael Chaves [Warner Bros. Pictures]
Venom: Let There Be Carnage - Dir. Andy Serkis [Sony Pictures]
Vivo - Dir. Kirk DeMicco [Sony Pictures / Animation]

July

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar - Dir. Josh Greenbaum [Lionsgate]
In the Heights - Dir. Jon M. Chu [Warner Bros. Pictures]
Jungle Cruise - Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra [Walt Disney Studios]
Minions: The Rise of Gru - Dir. Kyle Balda [Universal Pictures]
Old - Dir. M Night Shyamalan [Universal Pictures]
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - Dir. Destin Daniel Cretton [Marvel / Walt Disney Studios]
Space Jam 2: A New Legacy - Dir. Malcolm D. Lee [Warner Bros. Pictures]
The Tomorrow War - Dir. Chris McKay [Paramount Pictures]
Top Gun: Maverick - Dir. Joseph Kosinski [Paramount Pictures]
Uncharted - Dir. Ruben Fleischer [Sony Pictures]

August

Candyman - Dir. Nia DaCosta [Universal Pictures]
Deep Water - Dir. Adrian Lyne [20th Century Studios]
Don't Breathe 2 - Dir. Rodo Sayagues [Sony Pictures]
Hotel Transylvania 4 - Dir. Derek Drymon [Sony Pictures]
Paw Patrol: The Movie - Dir. Cal Brunker [Paramount Pictures / Animation]
The Beatles: Get Back - Dir. Peter Jackson [Walt Disney Studios]
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard - Dir. Patrick Hughes [Lionsgate]
The Reckoning - Dir. Neil Marshall [Fourth Culture Films]
The Suicide Squad - Dir. James Gunn [Warner Bros. Pictures]

September

Death on the Nile - Dir. Kenneth Branagh [20th Century Studios]
Jackass 4 - Dir. Jeff Tremaine [Paramount Pictures]
The Man From Toronto - Dir. Patrick Hughes [Sony Pictures]

October

Dune - Dir. Denis Villeneuve [Warner Bros. Pictures]
Halloween Kills - Dir. David Gordon Green [Universal Pictures]
The Last Duel - Dir. Ridley Scott [20th Century Studios]
Respect : Aretha Franklin Bio - Dir. Liesl Tommy [Universal Pictures]
Snake Eyes (G.I. Joe Origins) - Dir. Robert Schwentke [Paramount Pictures]

November

Escape Room 2 - Dir. Adam Robitel [Sony Pictures]
Elvis - Dir. Baz Luhrmann [Warner Bros. Pictures]
Eternals - Dir. Chloé Zhao [Marvel / Walt Disney Studios]
King Richard - Dir. Reinaldo Marcus Green [Warner Bros. Pictures]
Mission: Impossible 7 - Christopher McQuarrie [Paramount Pictures]
Stillwater - Dir. Tom McCarthy [Focus Features]
The Power of the Dog - Dir. Jane Campion [Netflix]

December

Babylon - Dir. Damien Chazelle [Lionsgate]
Black Adams - Dir. David F. Sandberg [Warner Bros. Pictures]
Blazing Samurai - Dir. Chris Bailey [STXfilms]
Masters of the Universe - Dir. Nee Brothers [Sony Pictures]
Pinocchio - Dir. Guillermo del Toro [Netflix]
Sherlock Holmes 3 - Dir. Dexter Fletcher [Warner Bros. Pictures]
Sing 2 - Dir. Garth Jennings [Universal Pictures]
Spider-Man 3 - Dir. Jon Watts [Marvel / Sony Pictures]
The Matrix 4 - Dir. Lana Wachowski [Warner Bros. Pictures]
West Side Story - Dir. Steven Spielberg [Amblin Entertainment / 20th Century Studios]
Wicked - Dir. Stephen Daldry [Focus Features]