For what it's worth...

Top Ten Films at the UK Box Office
for the weekend of October 8-10, 2010:

1 (new) Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (12A) **
2 (new) Life As We Know It (12A) [above]
3 (new) The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud (12A)
4 (1) The Other Guys (12A) ***
5 (2) The Town (15) ****
6 (5) The Hole (12A) ***
7 (6) Made in Dagenham (15)
8 (4) Eat Pray Love (12A) **
9 (3) Buried (15) ***
10 (8) Toy Story 3 (U) ****

(source: UK Film Council)

My top five:
1. A Town Called Panic
2. Back to the Future
3. From Here to Eternity
4. The Social Network
5. Collapse


Top Ten DVD rentals:

1 (new) The Disappearance of Alice Creed (18)
2 (3) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (18) ***
3 (2) The Blind Side (12) **
4 (1) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (12) **
5 (new) Frozen (15) ****
6 (4) Shutter Island (15) ***
7 (new) Letters to Juliet (12) **
8 (5) The Bounty Hunter (12) *
9 (new) The Back-Up Plan (12) **
10 (8) The Ghost (15) **

(source: lovefilm.com)

My top five:
1. Frozen
2. Skeletons
3. Black Death
4. The Time That Remains
5. 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep


Top five films on terrestrial TV this week:
1. Sweet Smell of Success (Saturday, BBC2, 11.30pm)
2. From Russia with Love (Saturday, ITV1, 3.15pm)
3. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Saturday, C4, 6.30pm)
4. A Mighty Wind (Friday, ITV1, 2.55am)
5. The Dam Busters (Sunday, BBC2, 11.30pm)