Limitless rides a high of £2.1m at the UK Box Office this week, after beating off mild competition from The Eagle and A Turtle's Tail. Drugs are good, mmkay?

Bradley Cooper's pill-popping thriller had two days of previews to help shoot up its solid total, but practically doubled the returns for second place 3D kids film A Turtle's Tail, which actually opened on more screens.

The Eagle marched into third, almost matching Turtle's takings of just over £1m. That's a little behind the £1.5m Kevin McDonald's State of Play took in its first week back in 2009, but then Channing Tatum is hardly Russell Crowe.

Interestingly, the historical hack-and-slash adventure showed in more cinemas than the top two films - the only movie more widely shown over the weekend was fourth place Rango. The success of Limitless, then, is testament to the impact of Bradley Cooper's face, which wooed audiences into multiplexes and also formed the basis of an inspired advertising campaign on The Tube.

Director: Neil Burger
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro
Certificate: 15

It's not often you get to see a happy film about hard drugs. But just when you were getting sick of overdoses, deaths and grimy one-bed flats, along comes Limitless. It's loud, thrilling, fast-paced AND happy. It's the anti-Requiem for a Dream.

Rango has reached the top of the UK Box Office after a lukewarm week that saw no-one make very much money. But don't worry: Submarine didn't sink, even if it did surface in 12th place. More on that later.

Dreamworks' animated Western took the number one spot from Battle: Los Angeles, dropping 32% down to £1.05m. That's not a lot for a chart-topper, but it's got a healthy £5m running total now, which it's clocked up outside of half term and without 3D uplifts.

It's also the only film to take more than £1 million this week, as it doesn't look like many people went to the pictures over the weekend: Rango's £500k drop is more than most of the new releases made in their first week.

Chalet Girl sloped in at number four (the highest of the debuts) with an alright £677k. Taking into account the usually reliable demographic of teenage girls, though, it's a bit of a downhill run for the rather excellent rom-com (that's right: it's excellent). Still, its Wednesday-Thursday previews helped it jump over The Lincoln Lawyer, which came in fifth with £571k.

The week's other popular release was Anuvahood, which had a solid opening, taking £536k from around 149 cinemas. That's an average of £3,600 per screen, the best of the UK Top Ten, which not only beats Felicity Jones and Matthew McConaughey but also makes it look bare easy, blud, you get me? Regardless of negative reviews and the limited print run, the audience for the gangsta comedy clearly liked the film - even more than I liked using the word 'blud' in that last sentence.