For what it's worth...

Top Ten Films at the UK Box Office   

for the weekend of October 30-November 1, 2015:
   

1 (new) SPECTRE (12A) ***
2 (1) Hotel Transylvania 2 (U)
3 (6) Pan (PG)
4 (3) Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (15) *
5 (4) Suffragette (12A) ***
6 (2) The Martian (12A) ****
7 (5) The Last Witch Hunter (12A)
8 (new) Tannhauser - Met Opera 2015 (12A)
9 (re) Inside Out (U) ****
10 (8) Crimson Peak (15) ****

(source: theguardian.com)

My top five:   

1. Brooklyn [above]
2. Brief Encounter
3. The Closer We Get
4. The Sweet Escape
5. Microbe and Gasoline

Top Ten DVD rentals:  

   

1 (1) Avengers: Age of Ultron (12) **
2 (new) Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! (U)
3 (new) Amy (15) ****
4 (new) Fast & Furious 7 (12) ***
5 (4) Mr. Holmes (PG) ***
6 (2) Tomorrowland: a World Beyond (PG) ***
7 (new) John Wick (15) ***
8 (5) Home (U) **
9 (3) Spooks: The Greater Good (15)
10 (6) Insidious: Chapter 3 (15) ***

(source: lovefilm.com)

                                   

My top five:  

1. Slow West
2. Amy
3. Lambert & Stamp
4. Mad Max: Fury Road

5. The New Girlfriend

Top five films on terrestrial TV this week:   

1. The Insider (Wednesday, C4, 12.30am)
2. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Sunday, five, 5.10pm and Thursday, five, 10pm)
3. Looper (Sunday, BBC2, 9pm)
4. The Simpsons Movie (Sunday, C4, 4.50pm)
5. Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (Sunday, ITV1, 4.40pm)