For what it's worth...

Top Ten Films at the UK Box Office
for the weekend of July 30-August 1, 2010:

1 (1) Toy Story 3 (U) ****
2 (new) The Karate Kid (PG) *** [above]
3 (new) The A-Team (12A) *
4 (2) Inception (12A) ***
5 (4) Shrek Forever After (U) ***
6 (3) Eclipse (12A) ***
7 (5) The Rebound (15)
8 (new) Gainsbourg (15) **
9 (6) Predators (15) ***
10 (new) Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (12A)

(source: UK Film Council)

My top five:
1. Ma Nuit chez Maud/My Night with Maud
2. Splice
3. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
4. Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
5. Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl


Top Ten DVD rentals (and no, this list makes no sense to me, either):

1 (new) Shelter (15) *
2 (new) Shank (15)
3 (re) sex&drugs&rock&roll (15) ***
4 (new) Shutter Island (15)
5 (1) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (18) ***
6 (2) Invictus (12) **
7 (3) Sherlock Holmes (12) *
8 (4) The Crazies (15) ***
9 (5) Alice in Wonderland (PG) **
10 (6) The Book of Eli (15) ***

(source: lovefilm.com)

My top five:
1. La Danse: The Paris-Opera Ballet
2. Revanche
3. Women Without Men
4. Shutter Island
5. I Love You, Phillip Morris


Top five films on terrestrial TV this week:
1. There Will Be Blood (Saturday, BBC2, 9.45pm)
2. Spellbound (Sunday, BBC2, 11.30am)
3. Sweet Smell of Success (Sunday, BBC2, 12.35am)
4. Westworld (Saturday, BBC2, 12.15am)
5. Ransom (Friday, BBC1, 11.15pm)