For what it's worth...

Top Ten Films at the UK Box Office

for the weekend of May 4-6, 2012:

1 (1) Marvel Avengers Assemble (12A) **

2 (new) American Pie: Reunion (15) **

3 (new) The Lucky One (12A)

4 (new) Beauty and the Beast 3D [above] (U)

5 (new) Safe (15) ***

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

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

8 (4) The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists! (U) ****

9 (new) Silent House (15)

10 (7) Mirror Mirror (PG)

(source: BFI)

My top five:

1. Faust

2. Le Quai des Brumes

3. Jeff, Who Lives at Home

4. Dark Shadows

5. All in Good Time

Top Ten DVD rentals:

1 (1) Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (12) ***

2 (new) War Horse (12) **

3 (3) In Time (12) ***

4 (4) The Help (12) ***

5 (5) Crazy, Stupid, Love. (12) *** 

6 (7) Contagion (12) ***

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

8 (9) Hugo (PG) ***

9 (2) Moneyball (12) ****

10 (re) Friends with Benefits (15) ***

(source: lovefilm.com)

My top five:

1. Hadewijch

2. The Artist

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

4. The Nine Muses

5. Black Pond

  

Top five films on terrestrial TV this week:

1. Bye Bye Birdie (Saturday, BBC2, 2.10pm)

2. Ae Fond Kiss (Sunday, BBC2, 12midnight)

3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Saturday, C4, 6.35pm)

4. Cast Away (Wednesday, BBC1, 10.45pm)

5. Team America: World Police (Friday, C4, 11.55pm)