By William Mata

“But didn’t you go to the cinema last week?’ a friend of my wife’s asked me, recently, when she heard I was going again the next day.

It is true, I had been. And I probably went the week before as well. It’s not abnormal behaviour for me. I’ve been to the cinema 59 times this year.

I’m very lucky to have been able to do this. I live in London and work in Leicester Square, which gives me about as much access to films I want to see as I could wish for. And, for part of this year, I had a job which gave me Tuesdays and Wednesdays off in exchange for working weekends - and if there are better things to do on days off when your friends are not around then go to the cinema, I didn’t find them.

How have I managed it? I have a cinema subscription that allows me to see as many as I like for £20 a month. But it wasn’t hard. I’ve not challenged myself to see a certain number - and nor should anyone… I don’t........

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