For what it's worth...

Top Ten Films at the UK Box Office
for the weekend of January 13-15, 2012:

1 (new) War Horse (12A) **
2 (3) The Iron Lady (12A)
3 (2) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (12A) *
4 (1) Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (12A) ***
5 (4) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (18) **
6 (new) The Darkest Hour (12A)
7 (8) The Artist (PG) ****
8 (5) Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (U)
9 (6) Puss in Boots (U)
10 (new) Shame (18) ***

(source: UK Film Council)

My top five:
1. The Nine Muses
2. J. Edgar
3. Tatsumi
4. Margin Call
5. Coriolanus


Top Ten DVD rentals:

1 (1) The Hangover Part II (15) *
2 (9) Rise of the Planet of the Apes (12) ****
3 (2) Cowboys and Aliens (12) **
4 (5) Horrible Bosses (15) **
5 (3) Super 8 (12) ***
6 (4) The Inbetweeners (15) **
7 (new) Columbiana (12)
8 (6) Bad Teacher (15) **
9 (7) X-Men: First Class (12) ***
10 (new) The Guard (15) ***

(source: lovefilm.com)

My top five:
1. Post Mortem
2. Melancholia
3. Life, Above All
4. The Troll Hunter
5. Bluebeard


Top five films on terrestrial TV this week:
1. The Third Man [above] (Thursday, C4, 1.10pm)
2. Whale Rider (Saturday, BBC2, 12noon)
3. Spider-Man (Sunday, five, 6.40pm)
4. Passport to Pimlico (Monday, C4, 1.30pm)
5. The Notorious Bettie Page (Friday, BBC2, 11.50pm)