For what it's worth...

Top Ten Films at the UK Box Office

for the weekend of April 20-22, 2012:

1 (1) Battleship (12A) **

2 (new) Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (12A) **

3 (4) The Hunger Games (12A) **

4 (3) The Cabin in the Woods (15) ***

5 (2) Titanic (12A) ***

6 (5) The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists! (U) ****

7 (new) Lockout (15) **

8 (6) Mirror Mirror (PG)

9 (7) 21 Jump Street (15) **

10 (new) Gone (15) ***

(source: guardian.co.uk)

My top five:

1. Beauty

2. Lawrence of Belgravia
3. Damsels in Distress

4. Being Elmo 

5. The Bad and the Beautiful

Top Ten DVD rentals:

1 (6) Moneyball (12) ****

2 (1) Contagion (12) ***

3 (3) The Help (12) ***

4 (4) In Time (12) ***

5 (2) Hugo (PG) ***

6 (5) My Week with Marilyn (15) ***

7 (7) The Ides of March (15) **

8 (re) Crazy, Stupid, Love. (12) ***

9 (8) The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (PG) **

10 (re) Warrior (12) ****

(source: lovefilm.com)

My top five:

1. Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life

2. The Nine Muses

3. Black Pond
4. Four Horsemen

5. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
 

Top five films on terrestrial TV this week:

1. Mean Streets [above] (Saturday, BBC2, 10.30pm)

2. Singin' in the Rain (Friday, C4, 1.05pm)

3. Dirty Harry (Saturday, ITV1, 10.45pm)

4. The Magnificent Seven (Saturday, five, 4.45pm)

5. The Ladykillers (Thursday, C4, 1.20pm)