For what it's worth...

Top Ten Films at the UK Box Office   

for the weekend of May 6-8, 2016:
   

1 (1) Captain America: Civil War (12A)
2 (2) The Jungle Book (PG) **
3 (new) Bad Neighbours 2 (15)
4 (new) Florence Foster Jenkins (PG)
5 (new) Robinson Crusoe (PG) **
6 (3) Eye in the Sky (15) *** 
7 (4) Zootropolis (PG)
8 (11) Secret Cinema: 28 Days Later... (18) ****
9 (5) Bastille Day (15)
10 (new) 24 (12A) ****

(source: theguardian.com)

My top five:   

1. Knight of Cups
2. 24
3. Arabian Nights vol. 3: The Enchanted One
4. The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
5. These Final Hours


Top Ten Streaming:

1 (new) The Propaganda Game (15) ***
2 (new) Like You Mean It (15)
3 (new) A War (15) ***
4 (2) Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (18) ***
5 (new) Ran (12) ****
6 (4) Carol (15) ****
7 (new) Mr. Topaze (U)
8 (6) Hitchcock/Truffaut (12) ****
9 (1) The Reflecting Skin (15)
10 (9) They Came to a City (U)

(source: BFI)


Top Ten DVD rentals:  

   

1 (1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (12) **
2 (new) The Hateful Eight (18) **
3 (3) SPECTRE (12) ***
4 (2) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (12)
5 (4) The Martian (12) ****
6 (new) Room (15) ****
7 (6) The Lady in the Van (12) ***
8 (5) The Good Dinosaur (PG)
9 (8) The Dressmaker (15) ***
10 (9) Hotel Transylvania 2 (U)

(source: lovefilm.com)

                                   

My top five:  

1. Creed
2. Lawrence of Belgravia
3. Room
4. Speed Sisters
5. Janis: Little Girl Blue


Top five films on terrestrial TV this week:   

1. The Westerner (Saturday, BBC2, 6.40am)
2. Margin Call (Saturday, BBC2, 11.05pm)
3. Face/Off (Friday, five, 9pm)
4. Legally Blonde (Friday, ITV1, 10.40pm)
5. X-Men: First Class (Saturday, C4, 9pm)