Five Reasons To Watch Mulholland Drive

1. It's written and directed by David Lynch, whose other films include Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, Lost Highway and Inland Empire.
2. It was originally filmed as a pilot for ABC but was expanded into a feature film when the TV network turned it down.
3. It has a great cast including Naomi Watts, Laura Harring and Justin Theroux.
4. The Club Silencio scene, which features Rebekah Del Rio singing "Llorando" (a Spanish-language version of Roy Orbison's "Crying"), is amazing.
5. It's won numerous awards including Best Director at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Five Reasons To Watch Zombieland

1. It has a great cast (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin).
2. There’s a brilliant cameo by Bill Murray too.
3. It features plenty of Zombie Kills of the Week!
4. It's "Certified Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes, receiving mostly positive reviews from critics.
5. It's the greatest zom-com since Shaun of the Dead!

Five Reasons To Watch Ellie Parker

1. It's written and directed by actor Scott Coffey, who's appeared in numerous films including Shag, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive.
2. Originally a short film, it was expanded into a feature film with additional footage shot over a period of five years.
3. Naomi Watts is great (and very funny) as the title character.
4. It also has a great supporting cast including Rebecca Rigg and Scott Coffey, with a cameo by Keanu Reeves.
5. It won a Special Jury Prize for Best New American Film at the 2005 Seattle International Film Festival; Naomi Watts received a special mention for her "bold, courageous, and hilarious performance".

Five Reasons To Watch The Breakfast Club

1. It's directed by the late, great John Hughes, whose other films include Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
2. John Hughes also wrote the screenplay... in just two days!
3. It's about "five total strangers, with nothing in common, meeting for the first time. A brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel and a recluse".
4. It has a great "Brat Pack" cast (Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy).
5. It was ranked number 1 on Entertainment Weekly's list of The 50 Best High School Movies.

Five Reasons To Watch Wet Hot American Summer

1. It's co-written and directed by David Wain, who co-wrote and directed Role Models.
2. It's set on the last day of summer camp, on the first day of the third week in August and is about "High Times. Hard Bodies. Soft Rock".
3. It has a great ensemble cast.
4. It was one of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Movies of 2001.
5. The hissy fit scene is great!

Five Reasons To Watch Adventureland

1. It's written and directed by Superbad director Greg Mottola, who also wrote and directed The Daytrippers.
2. It's a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story.
3. It's about long hours, low pay, high times... and a giant-ass panda!
4. It has a great cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Bill Hader, Martin Starr and Ryan Reynolds.
5. The 80s soundtrack, featuring "Modern Love" by David Bowie and "Satellite of Love" by Lou Reed, is also great.

Five Reasons To Watch (500) Days Of Summer

1. It's an impressive feature film directorial debut from music video director Marc Webb.
2. It's original and offbeat and features a great musical number!
3. It's not a love story. It's a story about love.
4. It has a great cast including Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel.
5. It's received mostly positive reviews from critics and is "Certified Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes.

Five Reasons To Watch Dazed And Confused

1. It's written and directed by Richard Linklater, whose other films include SubUrbia, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.
2. It has a great "before they were famous" cast (complete with 70s hairdos hairdon'ts).
3. The 70s soundtrack is also great.
4. It was ranked number 3 on Entertainment Weekly's list of The 50 Best High School Movies.
5. It'd be a lot cooler if you did (watch it).

Five Reasons To Watch Lost And Delirious

1. It's the first English-language film by Quebecois director Léa Pool.
2. The screenplay (by Judith Thompson) was adapted from Susan Swan's novel, The Wives of Bath.
3. It's about "Friends. Roommates. Lovers".
4. The cast are impressive, especially Piper Perabo as Pauline "Paulie" Oster.
5. The soundtrack, featuring "You Had Time" by Ani DiFranco and "River Waltz" by Cowboy Junkies, is great.

Five Reasons To Watch Drag Me To Hell

1. It's co-written and directed by Sam Raimi, who wrote and directed The Evil Dead series.
2. It's both funny and scary.
3. It's "Certified Fresh" on Rotten Tomatoes, receiving mostly positive reviews from critics.
4. It's brilliantly over-the-top.
5. There's a talking goat!

Five Reasons To Watch Exotica

1. It's written and directed by Atom Egoyan, whose other films include The Sweet Hereafter and Where the Truth Lies.
2. The story, which is not told in chronological order, connects a group of seemingly random strangers.
3. It has a great cast including Mia Kirshner, Elias Koteas and Sarah Polley.
4. It's won several awards including Best Canadian Feature Film at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival.
5. The scene involving Leonard Cohen’s "Everybody Knows" features possibly the strangest stripper dance ever! [See Strange Dance Scenes.]

Five Reasons To Watch May

1. It's written and directed by Lucky McKee, who also directed The Woods and the Masters of Horror episode "Sick Girl".
2. Angela Bettis is perfectly cast as the title character.
3. It has a great supporting cast including Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris and James Duval.
4. The soundtrack features songs by The Breeders and The Kelley Deal 6000.
5. Roger Ebert gave it four stars!

Five Reasons To Watch Shaun Of The Dead

1. It's written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright and won a British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay in 2004.
2. It also won Best British Film at the 2005 Empire Film Awards.
3. It's a great send-up of zombie films.
4. The "Don't Stop Me Now" scene is brilliant.
5. It's "A romantic comedy. With zombies"!

Five Reasons To Watch The Exorcist

1. The screenplay is written by William Peter Blatty, adapted from his best-selling novel.
2. It's often referred to as one of the scariest films of all time.
3. When it was released there were reports of audience members fainting and vomiting during screenings.
4. The cast are impressive, especially Linda Blair as 12-year-old Regan MacNeil.
5. The power of Christ compels you (to watch it)!

Five Reasons To Watch Freeway

1. It's a twisted retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
2. Reese Witherspoon plays a juvenile delinquent!
3. It’s darkly comic.
4. It's trashy, but in a good way.
5. It's so much better than the sequel, Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trickbaby.

Five Reasons To Watch Mean Girls

1. It's written by Tina Fey, the creator and star of 30 Rock.
2. It's directed by Mark Waters, who also directed The House of Yes.
3. Rachel McAdams is fabulous (but evil) as Regina George.
4. The "Jingle Bell Rock" scene is great.
5. It is so fetch!

Five Reasons To Watch But I'm A Cheerleader

1. It's directed by Jamie Babbit, who also directed Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
2. Jamie Babbit wrote the story too, while screenwriter Brian Wayne Peterson wrote the script.
3. The costume and production design is great (pinks and blues are used to reflect the themes of the story etc).
4. The soundtrack, including "Chick Habit" by April March and "Glass Vase Cello Case" by Tattle Tale, is also great.
5. It's "A comedy of sexual disorientation"!

Five Reasons To Watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show

1. It's based on the stage production by Richard O'Brien, who co-wrote the screenplay with director Jim Sharman.
2. It’s considered to be the longest running theatrical release in film history.
3. Tim Curry is brilliant as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania.
4. The songs are an absolute pleasure.
5. It's a cult classic!

Five Reasons To Watch Sleep With Me

1. It's directed by Rory Kelly, who also wrote it along with five friends (each of them wrote one sequence).
2. It has a great ensemble cast.
3. Quentin Tarantino appears in a cameo role as Sid.
4. Sid has an amusing theory as to what Top Gun is really about.
5. Joey Lauren Adams and Parker Posey sing in it!