For what it's worth...

Top Ten Films at the UK Box Office   

for the weekend of May 27-29, 2016:
   

1 (1) X-Men: Apocalypse (12A)
2 (new) Alice Through the Looking Glass (PG)
3 (2) The Angry Birds Movie (U)
4 (new) Money Monster (15)
5 (3) The Jungle Book (PG) **
6 (4) Captain America: Civil War (12A)
7 (5) Bad Neighbours 2 (15)
8 (new) Love & Friendship (U) ***
9 (9) Secret Cinema: 28 Days Later... (18) ****
10 (new) Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (U)

(source: theguardian.com)

My top five:   

1. Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach [above]
2. The Measure of a Man
3. Holding the Man
4. Race
5. Only Yesterday


Top Ten DVD rentals:  

   

1 (3) Spotlight (15) ***
2 (1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (12) **
3 (2) The Hateful Eight (18) **
4 (7) Dirty Grandpa (15)
5 (4) Bridge of Spies (12) *****
6 (6) Room (15) ****
7 (8) The Martian (12) ****
8 (5) SPECTRE (12) ***
9 (9) The Lady in the Van (12) ***
10 (10) The Intern (12)

(source: lovefilm.com)

                                   

My top five:  

1. The Club
2. Creed
3. Lawrence of Belgravia
4. Room
5. The Revenant


Top Ten Streaming:

1 (1) Spotlight (15) *** 
2 (new) Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach [above] (12A) ****
3 (3) The Assassin (15) ***
4 (new) Holding the Man (15) ***
5 (2) The Propaganda Game (15) ***
6 (4) Like You Mean It (15)
7 (7) The Wind That Shakes the Barley (15) ***
8 (6) Hitchcock/Truffaut (12) ****
9 (5) Black Mountain Poets (15) ***
10 (re) Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (18) ***

(source: BFI)

Top five films on terrestrial TV this week:   

1. Wayne's World (Sunday, five, 3.45pm)
2. The Jungle Book (Sunday, C4, 5.05pm)
3. 12 Years a Slave (Saturday, C4, 9pm)
4. Die Hard with a Vengeance (Saturday, BBC1, 10.45pm)
5. Hue and Cry (Saturday, BBC2, 7.20am)