For what it's worth...

Top Ten Films at the UK Box Office   

for the weekend of January 1-3, 2015:
   

1 (1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (12A) **
2 (new) Daddy's Home (12A)
3 (new) Joy (12A) ****
4 (new) The Danish Girl (15) **
5 (new) Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie (U) **
6 (3) The Good Dinosaur (PG)
7 (new) In the Heart of the Sea (12A) **
8 (5) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (12A)
9 (6) SPECTRE (12A) ***
10 (new) Branagh Theatre Live: A Winter's Tale (PG)

(source: theguardian.com)

My top five:   

1. Le Mépris
2. Joy
3. Bolshoi Babylon [above]
4. Wazir
5. A War


Top Ten DVD rentals:  

   

1 (1) Inside Out (U) ****
2 (2) Ant-Man (12) ***
3 (3) Jurassic World (12) **
4 (4) Mad Max: Fury Road (15) ****
5 (5) Terminator: Genisys (12)
6 (new) Pixels (12) **
7 (6) Pitch Perfect 2 (12) **
8 (8) Joe and Caspar Hit the Road (12)
9 (7) San Andreas (12)
10 (new) Absolutely Anything (12) *

(source: lovefilm.com)

                                   

My top five:  

1. The Gift
2. Mia Madre
3. Do I Sound Gay?
4. Listen to Me Marlon
5. Being A.P.

Top five films on terrestrial TV this week:   

1. 17 Again (Sunday, C4, 4pm)
2. A Simple Plan (Tuesday, BBC1, 11.40pm)
3. The Peacemaker (Saturday, BBC1, 12midnight)
4. Footloose (Sunday, C4, 11.30pm)
5. The Importance of Being Earnest (Saturday, BBC2, 8.40am)