For what it's worth...

Top Ten Films at the UK Box Office   

for the weekend of April 29-May 1, 2016:
   

1 (new) Captain America: Civil War (12A)
2 (1) The Jungle Book (PG) **
3 (2) Eye in the Sky (15) *** 
4 (4) Zootropolis (PG)
5 (3) Bastille Day (15)
6 (new) Demolition (15)
7 (5) Friend Request (15)
8 (new) Son of Saul (15) *****
9 (new) Elektra: Met Opera (12A)
10 (7) Eddie the Eagle (PG) ***

(source: theguardian.com)

My top five:   

1. Knight of Cups
2. Arabian Nights vol. 3: The Enchanted One
3. The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers [above]
4. These Final Hours
5. Truman


Top Ten Streaming:

1 (new) The Reflecting Skin (15)
2 (1) Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (18) ***
3 (5) Court (PG) ***
4 (3) Carol (15) ****
5 (9) BFI Presents: Richard III (15) ****
6 (2) Hitchcock/Truffaut (12) ****
7 (6) Symptoms (15)
8 (4) Black Mountain Poets (15) ***
9 (new) They Came to a City (U)
10 (8) Eisenstein in Guanajuato (15) **

(source: BFI)


Top Ten DVD rentals:  

   

1 (1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (12) **
2 (2) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (12)
3 (3) SPECTRE (12) ***
4 (4) The Martian (12) ****
5 (6) The Good Dinosaur (PG)
6 (5) The Lady in the Van (12) ***
7 (8) The Intern (12)
8 (7) The Dressmaker (15) ***
9 (10) Hotel Transylvania 2 (U)
10 (9) The Last Witch Hunter (15)

(source: lovefilm.com)

                                   

My top five:  

1. Room
2. Innocence of Memories
3. Hitchcock/Truffaut
4. Speed Sisters
5. Janis: Little Girl Blue


Top five films on terrestrial TV this week:   

1. Zodiac (Saturday, BBC2, 10.50pm)
2. Chinatown (Friday, C4, 12.35am)
3. Reservoir Dogs (Sunday, five, 12.35am)
4. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Sunday, five, 6pm)
5. Alien (Saturday, C4, 11.25pm)