For what it's worth...

Top Ten Films at the UK Box Office
for the weekend of December 2-4, 2011:

1 (2) Arthur Christmas (U) ***
2 (new) Happy Feet Two (U)
3 (1) Breaking Dawn: Part 1 (12A) ***
4 (new) Hugo (PG) ***
5 (new) The Thing (15)
6 (3) My Week with Marilyn (15) ***
7 (4) The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (PG) **
8 (6) 50/50 (15)
9 (5) Immortals (15) ****
10 (7) Dream House (15)

(source: UK Film Council)

My top five:
1. Take Shelter
2. Moneyball
3. We Were Here
4. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
5. Margaret


Top Ten DVD rentals:

1 (2) Bad Teacher (15) **
2 (5) Transformers: Dark of the Moon (12)
3 (9) X-Men: First Class (12) ***
4 (new) The Tree of Life (12) ****
5 (new) Captain America: The First Avenger (12) *
6 (1) Green Lantern (12) *
7 (3) Thor (12) **
8 (6) Water for Elephants (12)
9 (7) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (12) *
10 (4) Kung Fu Panda 2 (PG) ***

(source: lovefilm.com)

My top five:
1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2. A Separation
3. We Were Here
4. Super 8
5. The Interrupters


Top five films on terrestrial TV this week:
1. The Ice Storm [above] (Wednesday, C4, 1.40am)
2. Great Expectations (Wednesday, C4, 12.50pm)
3. Westworld (Wednesday, BBC1, 11.55pm)
4. Miracle on 34th Street (Friday, C4, 1.15pm)
5. Speed (Friday, five, 9pm)