For what it's worth...

Top Ten Films at the UK Box Office
for the weekend of August 20-22, 2010:

1 (new) The Expendables (15) **
2 (new) Salt (12A) **
3 (1) Toy Story 3 (U) ****
4 (new) Piranha (15) *** [above]
5 (new) Marmaduke (U) **
6 (2) Inception (12A) ***
7 (4) Knight and Day (12A) **
8 (3) The Last Airbender (PG) *
9 (6) Step Up 3D (12A) **
10 (5) The Sorcerer's Apprentice (PG) ***

(source: UK Film Council)

My top five:
1. The Illusionist
2. The Leopard
3. Avatar: Special Edition
4. Wah Do Dem
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid


Top Ten DVD rentals:

1 (re) Shutter Island (15) ***
2 (re) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (18) ***
3 (re) The Bounty Hunter (12) *
4 (1) Whip It (12) ***
5 (re) Sherlock Holmes (12) *
6 (5) Valentine's Day (12)
7 (3) The Joneses (15) **
8 (re) Invictus (12) **
9 (re) The Lovely Bones (12) **
10 (new) Dear John (12) **

(source: lovefilm.com)

My top five:
1. Cemetery Junction
2. Lebanon
3. Hot Tub Time Machine
4. Repo Men
5. Lymelife


Top five films on terrestrial TV this week:
1. An American in Paris (Bank Holiday Monday, BBC2, 1.10pm)
2. Grosse Pointe Blank (Friday, BBC1, 11.15pm)
3. Stand By Me (Saturday, C4, 12.05am)
4. The Bourne Supremacy (Saturday, ITV1, 9.45pm)
5. All the King's Men (Thursday, BBC2, 11.30pm)