For what it's worth...

Top Ten Films at the UK Box Office
for the weekend of December 14-16, 2012:

1 (new) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (12A) ***
2 (1) Rise of the Guardians (PG) **
3 (5) Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! (U)
4 (2) Skyfall (12A) ****
5 (new) Tinkerbell and the Secret of the Wings (U)
6 (4) Breaking Dawn: Part 2 (12A) **
7 (3) Seven Psychopaths (15) **
8 (6) Silver Linings Playbook (15) **** 
9 (8) Argo (15) ***
10 (7) Great Expectations (12A) ***

(source: BFI)

My top five:
1. West of Memphis
2. Neil Young: Journeys
3. Chasing Ice

4. Babette's Feast

5. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

   

Top Ten DVD rentals:

1 (6) Snow White and the Huntsman (12) **

2 (7) Prometheus (15) *** 

3 (new) Brave (PG) **

4 (new) The Expendables 2 (15) ***

5 (new) Men in Black 3 (12) **

6 (new) Wrath of the Titans (12)

7 (new) Keith Lemon: The Film (15)

8 (new) Magic Mike (15) **

9 (3) Rock of Ages (12) ** 

10 (new) The Hunter (15) **

(source: lovefilm.com)

My top five:

1. Berberian Sound Studio
2. Searching for Sugar Man

3. The Snows of Kilimanjaro

4. Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet

5. The Expendables 2

  

Top five films on terrestrial TV this week:

1. Dances with Wolves (New Year's Day, BBC2, 12.45pm)
2. The Wizard of Oz (New Year's Day, C4, 4.30pm)
3. King Kong (New Year's Day, ITV1, 10.30pm)
4. Edward Scissorhands (Sunday 30, C4, 2.55pm)
5. Mary Poppins [above] (New Year's Day, BBC1, 1.45pm)