5 books to read before the movies hit our screens

List by Danielle

'While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union and freeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces of the undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years.'

~ Abraham Lincoln : vampire hunter

Take a look at the library's most requested titles and - okay, 50 Shades of Grey aside - you'll usually find a fair few titles on there that have recently come out as movies. Nothing makes people want to read a book so much as a big, shiny movie version. Good news: the 5 books on this list still have available copies, because the movies aren't here yet!

(ps. Fans of Robert Pattinson rejoice and check out both 'Cosmopolis' and 'Bel-Ami', below!)

Also coming out soon:

The hobbit (watch trailer) NZ release: 28 November

Cosmopolis (watch trailers) NZ release: 1 November

Bel-Ami (watch trailers) NZ release: 26 July

Anna Karenina NZ release: TBA

On the road (watch trailer) NZ release: 13 September

5 movies with an Irish link of some sort that my siblings think I need in my life now, right now

"May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you."
- Irish Blessing

Last year, here on the blog, Jolene, Danielle, Natalie and myself wrote (argued/wrote - potato, po-tah-to) a St. Patrick's Day list. Top 5 Irish actors we argued over for this top 5 St. Patrick's Day post, to be specific. Weirdly (?), it received quite a few hits. This year, I decided to keep with the St. Patricks Day post (mostly because I am all kinds of a fool for an Irish accent), but switch it up a little. Well, I thought a little, but siblings hijacked the post so it resembles nothing like what I started with. I wanted to list 5 Irish Films You Need in Your Life Now, Right Now! just because it's St. Patrick's Day. But it's a pretty contentious topic in our household, and fiercely debated. For example, what, exactly, did I mean by 'Irish'? It got to the point where a list of 'Is THIS what you meant?!?' points were made and argued about, back and forth, back and forth:

Actors/actresses born in Ireland?

Actors/actresses not Irish (with terribly hammed-up accents) yet playing Irish characters?

Films shot in Ireland that aren't about Ireland or its Irish history?

Films with Irish characters but not set in Ireland?

Don't even get me started on whether or not Irish actors/actresses in what is, really, an American film, counts *sigh* Yes. Fun and games over dinner, I'll tell you. In the end, craving peace and quiet, and wanting to avoid bloodshed (and cold shoulders), I opted to give my movie-watching experience over to them *somewhat hesitant look* which is why this list is a mish-mash of (probably) all of the above *holds head in hands* And so behold! 5 movies with an Irish link of some sort that my siblings think I need in my life now, right now. Oy. Happy St. Patricks Day!

5 films listed in this book that I never considered as having 'cult' status (even though, secretly, I now understand and agree)

List by Tosca

"In recent years, cult cinema has moved from the pulp periphery to the centre of critical debate. From initially being celebrated in fanzines and journalistic essays, the study of cult has now become a key part of film criticism and media/cultural studies theory..."
- 100 cult films, introduction

Title: 100 cult films by Ernest Mathijs & Xavier Mendik
Published: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Summary: This accessible guide takes cult cinema fanatics and academics alike through the 100 most memorable films, showcasing such diverse hits as The Sound of Music, Edward Scissorhands, and The Gods Must Be Crazy. This guide does not limit readers to cinematic favorites of the general public alone, but instead explores the worlds of such cult sub-genres as Italian cannibal movies and Japanese anime. Including vivid photos of unforgettable scenes, this Screen Guide brings to life the success behind some of the biggest movies of our time.

If I'd ever been asked to hand over my list of top 100 cult films I'd have failed spectacularly. At least going by Mathijs and Mendik's version of said same list. That's not a criticism. Merely an observation that any list along these lines (most especially any of ours here at the Top 5 blog) are wholly subjective. I could be facetious and say, "One man's meat is another man's poison," except that I don't think that's right. I believe it's more a case of, "One man's trash is another man's treasure," and no list brings that home to me more than this particular book right here. Sure, it contains lots of films I'd expect to see on here such as Godzilla, Brazil, Donnie Darko, and Blade Runner. There are also a slew of films I've never heard of but now want to look up just because. And, as expected, more than a few that make me go, 'REALLY?' Although, when I stop to think about, they make sense. And so! 5 cult films listed in this book that I never considered as having a 'cult' status (even though, secretly, I now understand and agree). (And, really, 5 films that make me reconsider what I consider 'cult,' anyway).

P.S. I adore the cover to this book, which is taken from the film Pink Flamingos starring Divine. I remember seeing Divine in Polyester (probably inappropriate for a child to have watched but my parents were fairly easygoing when it came to implementing hard and fast film/book filters) and Hair Spray. Polyester? Unforgettable. Hair Spray? Hmm. Possibly, though, either of those I'd consider as having 'cult film' status.

Top 5 fictional TV shows

List by Danielle, Natalie and Tosca

"Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover."
~ Homer Simpson

Danielle: The inspiration for this list came from a New Books list find, Paul Hornschemeier's Life with Mr Dangerous, a slice-of-life graphic novel about getting your creative mojo back that includes an homage to a surreal little cartoon called 'Mr Dangerous'. I got to thinking: what other meta-fictional TV shows might we have known and loved in our reading & watching? Thanks to Wikipedia, I have an incomplete but very entertaining list, which includes some of our choices below.

Top 5 kiddie-friendly scary movies Mr. 7 and I are considering for our Halloween movie marathon

List by Tosca

"Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects."
- Christopher Eccleston (who is, incidentally, Mr. 7's 2nd most favourite Doctor Who)

Every Halloween I stage a scary movie marathon. This year I had tentatively planned a gore-nography fest with, well, probably very little in the way of plot but bucket loads of blood and guts splattered all over the screen. If there happens to be a little romance along the way then so much the better (because people fall in love over splattered brains, right?). And if there's no romance I'd at least like for there to be one or two survivors who walk away from their experience a little wiser, a little stronger, and probably somewhat traumatised for the rest of their cinematic lives. I've had to change my plans slightly to take Mr. 7's tastes into account because he'll be joining me for the first part of the journey and then, after his bedtime, I'll be finishing it on my own. I've got 5 movies lined up that he has never seen before and so, later this week, we'll haggle over which one (or two) he could/should watch. There's no rhyme or reason to my selection except that they're a combination of movies that I've enjoyed in previous years with the older nephews or that are more (or a little bit less) appropriate for his age. He's a Doctor Who fan (oh! the tears we cried together during Tennant's The End of Time) so he's seen quite an array of scary-ish creatures already, but by the same token I don't want to psychologically scar him with something like Sleepy Hollow, either (even though I *loved* that). I think I've settled on a good mix, although I won't know for sure until the actual movie night.

Top 5 classic musicals on DVD

List by Annie

"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But man, there's no boundary line to art."
- Charlie Parker

Thanks to my mum, I have an ingrained love of classic musicals. Thanks to my dad, I also laugh at them.

These are my favourite musicals I could re-watch again and again. And can sing many of the songs.

Honourable mentions:

Darby O'Gill and the little people [DVD videorecording] / directed by Robert. An old storyteller falls into a well and meets a group of leprechauns. The leprechauns give him three wishes to get his life together - YouTube link: This has a signing Sean Connery!

Paint your wagon [DVD videorecording] / directed by Joshua Logan. The story of a goldmining boom town centering on the work-and-play partnership of two miners and the wife they share - YouTube link: Lee Marvin AND Clint Eastwood singing...

Seven brides for seven brothers [DVD videorecording] / directed by Stanley Donen. Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers -- all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading about the Roman capture of the Sabine women, Adam develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness . . . kidnap the women they want! - YouTube link: The barn dance is amazing!

Top 5 loveable rogues

List by Danielle

"I only got myself/And this big old world/But I sip that cup of life/With my fingers curled"
~ lyrics from Thomas O'Malley Cat, from the Aristocats

This list was inspired while watching tv with the kids over breakfast; (trying to avoid) watching Alvin and the Chipmunks: the squeakuel, to be precise. (I have just requested the soundtrack on the urging of my eager 5 year old, and am full of inner glee that I'm not the one who drops her off to school, which is when it'll get played.) High point of the morning's viewing was noticing that Zachary Levi plays the 'hapless human' in this round of chipmunkish hijinks; also known for his TV role of Chuck, you might know him better as Flynn Rider (or should that be Eugene Fitzherbert) from the recent Rapunzel flick, Tangled.

When I saw Tangled, I thought that Disney (and Zachary Levi) had really got it right - he was the epitome of 'loveable rogue'. Full of equal amounts of eye-twinkling charisma and the ability to really irritate, flippant even in the face of certain danger, pulling chaos behind him like a kite, and bursting with schemes and plans and a passion for life. He might take a cynical view to humanity in the abstract, but when he finds that one special person to infiltrate his well-guarded heart, he would risk anything to protect them. I think that's where the 'loveable' part comes alive for me - watching someone with a serious survival instinct battle with the ferocious loyalty and compassion lurking deep down.

Tosca, feel free to step in if I sound too much like I'm writing copy for the back of a Silhouette title!

Loveable rogues. SIGH.

5 groundbreaking Māori DVDs (as picked by Wairoa Film Festival director Leo Koziol in Mana magazine's 100th issue)

List by Leo Koziol, director of the Wairoa Film Festival

My dad is from Nuhaka in the Hawkes Bay area, although he spent his childhood growing up in the Wairarapa region on family land. My experience of the Wairarapa family home is from summer holidays spent there: miles from anywhere, longdrop toilet, cows wandering the paddock, a creek down the back for bathing (in the mornings), fishing (during the day) and eeling (by night). My memories of a visit to Nuhaka are hazy. I was a child so what I remember is coloured by sentimentality, a longing for 'home' (which is rather ambiguous when you're Māori, after all, home is any one of a myriad of places I whakapapa back to), and a distinctly unsettled and constant feeling I have that I need to go back more often. But like I said, being Māori means that I have that same feeling of 'loss' when thinking of Wairarapa, Wharekahika (Hicks Bay), Kaikoura and Waimanoni (the various places my grandparents all come from). Dad and I had made plans to head back to Nuhaka earlier this year to help plan for a whanau reunion, unfortunately his ill health prevented either of us from doing so. I've decided, though, that I'm going back next year on my own and have made tentative plans to set aside some time to take in the Wairoa Film Festival. The festival, which began in '05, is held on Queen's Birthday Weekend every year in various marae in the Hawkes Bay region, and is a great way to see NZ films by both up-and-coming talent and established directors/writers. I'm really looking forward to it. I haven't told my siblings of my plans, though, for a couple of reasons: 1) I'm worried they might want to come with me and yet 2) I'm also worried that they might not want to come with me. Either way, I hope to visit my grandfather's marae and mountain and river and, hopefully, feel a bit more settled afterward. And yes, I'm absolutely aware of how airy fairy and whimsical that sounds. Although, maybe not so much when I consider that my paternal grandfather was raised with some scary-spooky tohunga-type beliefs/practices that he refused to pass on to his children (that I managed to hear about, anyway, and which, I might add, scared the stuffing out of me).

I do have an explanation for how this list idea came about and, as usual, it's as convoluted as you've probably come to expect from me. Back in June I read Mana magazine's 100th issue (with its very distinctive cover) and even recommended it in a post (specifically Top 5 items I took out that are totally worth sharing). There were a few articles in that particular issue that caught my eye, although it's one in particular that I'm going to concentrate on today. At the time I read the magazine, I made a mental note to add Koziol's five most groundbreaking Māori films of all time as a list to this blog. Unfortunately, my self-notes to 'add a mental note' are like my promises to old friends and family to 'catch up': well-intentioned, heartfelt at the time, and forgotten as soon as the person is gone from my sight. Which was what happened with this list *shamefaced look* So, finally, two months later here it is: 5 groundbreaking Māori DVDs, as picked by Leo Koziol, director of the Wairoa Film Festival. And maybe if you're in the area at the same time, we'll bump into each other.

Top 5 reasons to stay out of the snow

List by Danielle

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.
~ e.e. cummings

Earlier this week, I was driving through central Auckland when it hit: call it snow, call it sleet, call it 'graupel' (as I saw it referred to in the news)... it was beautiful and strange and altogether magical, drifting in swirls through the sky and sticking to my windscreen. I've only been out while it's snowing once or twice in my life, so it was a total treat and not the nightmare I'm sure it is for farmers with lambs and calves, or people driving on icy roads, or the folk in Christchurch who really need a break from all the mayhem.

Speaking of nightmares and snow, horror books & movies know the score. Stay away from the white stuff! It hides all manner of abominations... for the love of all that's holy, COME IN FROM THE SNOW, PEOPLE!

5 reboots/remakes Rotten Tomatoes says you should watch (and I agree)

List by Rotten Tomatoes

I haz germs *coughs all over your screen* Last month I picked up some viral infection and ended up on antibiotics. It took a little while to kick it and I was so stoked when I did. And then last night, while at quiz night (I have to release my inner geek somehow) I felt it coming back again. It's not totally a terrible thing because I intend to use it as an excuse to grab one of the movies off this list that I haven't seen - 3.10 to Yuma - and take over the lounge (duvet, pyjamas and all) to recuperate and rest up over the weekend. I don't expect you to care, though *sniffs* Not at all *cue pitiful look*

Today's list is all thanks to the fact that I have the attention span of a goldfish. You're welcome *grin* Most of you will know that for fun I often spend my nights playing online looking for 'What do I read/watch next?' recommendations. I tell myself that it's *all* for you. And mostly it is. But I suspect that it's also partly because I live for links like this one from Rotten Tomatoes: Best Reboot/Remake, which made up a part of their Best of the Decade post where they recapped some of the top Tomatometers of the past ten years :)

Query: What's your favourite movie reboot/remake?

Top 5 foreign language films of all time (as voted by Guardian readers)

List by Guardian readers

"Film memory has kept them all for us, beyond death or, better, beyond youth."
- Dumitru Ion Suchianu

I have terrible taste in films - I know it, my family knows it and so do my friends. So much so that when my nephews want to have a 'Bad movie night in' they look to me to make the choices. I'm still not sure whether or not that's a compliment. Some nights it keeps me up. (Kidding). Whenever friends suggest getting together to see a movie I cringe way down deep inside because, ultimately, I know this means that we're going to watch one of two types of film: something so arty and obscure as to be beyond my comprehension or, worse, something so touchy-feely-girly-romantic that I'm embarrassed to be a girl. Either way, I'm on the outside looking in. When it's my turn to choose they groan in exasperation because 1) someone will die a spectacularly glorious death complete with explosions and blood on-camera and 2) there will be no romance unless there is a most awesome knock-down drag out fight where the bad guy gets beheaded first. Or handcuffed. To date I'm not sure which pleases me most. Needless to say, I don't get asked to the movies much by anybody including my two best friends. (I have only two best friends - I convince myself it's about quality not quantity instead of the truth which is that nobody can stand us except...us).

Top 5 highest-grossing Bollywood films

List by Tosca

I adore Bollywood movies. They're so full of life, colour, drama, music, romance, action, emotion and, let's face it, sometimes cheesey humour. The women are always beautiful and graceful and the men extremely goodlooking. My first tentative foray into Bollywood films wasn't a success at all, though. I had no clue about anything. I didn't know what actors or actresses I liked, I wasn't too sure if I would prefer the comedies over the dramas and I was totally unaware that some of the films are about three hours long. Three hours! I have the attention span of a goldfish so I felt my heart sink right then and there. It was about that time that a colleague at Manurewa Library, Sunita, decided to step in and help. Brilliant for me, probably not so much for her :) Thanks to Sunita I was hooked from her very first recommendation - Baghban starring Amitabh Bachchan - and have never looked back. Baghban is, essentially, a romance. Admittedly one that is 170 minutes long, but it was so beautiful I cried my heart out. How could I not when Raj and Pooja were separated, never having spent a night apart during their marriage, and finding it incredibly hard to stay positive when living in different parts of the city? I remember dad passed through the lounge at one stage and paused. After standing still for about five minutes he sat down and watched the last hour with me. Absolutely quiet. Didn't say a word. Then, when it finished, he took it down to his room and watched it from the start. Around this time mum was living half the week in Kaitaia and half the week here in Auckland and, maybe, it reminded him of that. I'm not sure. I didn't feel comfortable enough to ask. It would be another two years before he felt ready to move up there altogether with mum and, in the meantime, we watched a lot of Bollywood movies - me the romantic comedies (of course) and dad the action movies. In light of the fact that we're celebrating the NZ International Film Festival (NZFF) this month, I was kinda curious about what the highest-grossing Bollywood films would be which, of course, led to this post. (Longwinded explanation that I managed to sum up in one sentence).

Query: Do you watch Bollywood films?

Top 5 French films

List by Michelle

"Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second."
- Jean-Luc Goddard

This month we're celebrating the NZ International Film Festival (NZFF) by highlighting various international films and/or NZFF festival-related actors, actresses, screenplay writers, authors (for books-into-film) and directors whose DVDs we hold. This particular list, while not directly related to NZFF 2011, highlights some great French films that you may not have seen. Thank you, Michelle, for the list idea :)

If you'd like more film-related recommendations make sure to follow us on Twitter and Facebook! Everyday we'll be recommending films from our DVD collection. You can find all NZFF-related tweets using the hashtag #nzff.

Top 5 flicks for chicks who hate chick flicks

List by Annie

"That Sergeant Angel's coming into your shop. Get a look at his arse."
- Hot fuzz [DVD] directed by Edgar Wright

I don’t do chick flicks – or chick lit. So, when I’m with friends and we want to break out an all-girls DVD night...these are the movies I’d pick. And the quote explains the appeal of some of these...

Top 5 tearjerkers to make you happy

List by Jo (Jo is the fabulous editor of our monthly What's On eNewsletter and provides a great view of what events are taking place across Auckland Libraries)

My friends and I have all agreed there’s a lot of romance about sad movies, as in, we love them!! Wasn't it Aristotle who said a good cry "cleanses the mind?" It's no accident that many of us are addicted to the catharsis points of said movies, which move us to weep, which purges the toxins (kind of the same effect as ingesting antioxidants), which then elevates our mood. So, to continue our tribute to the 2011 NZFF here’s a list of five films that will lift your spirits by first making you sob.

Top 5 movies for a mini Film Festival

List by Danielle

'Well, not to worry, child: It's good news. There's a tall, handsome beast in your future.'
~ Coraline (2009)

Between the ticket price, and the babysitting - and the general inertia that sets in on a winter evening, after the kids are in bed - I don't get out to see a lot of movies. And sometimes I just need to be reminded how great movies are, and how varied, and how full of unexpected delights.

This year, as Tosca and I discussed what the Auckland Libraries' tweetstream might celebrate movie-wise, when neither of us were planning to attend more than 1 Film Festival movie at most, I had a very delayed brain wave. Auckland Libraries: we stock movies. And many of those very same movies have played in previous Film Festivals. And I haven't seen most of them.

Why not hold my own mini Film Festival??? Think of it - the ticket price is more manageable, and not only can I choose when and where I watch it, I can make sure everyone's turned off their cellphone! WIN-WIN. Now, I'm not knocking the real Film Festival, the brochure each year fills me with wistful, vicarious movie-watching delight and anticipation. But if you're strapped for time and cash, why not take a look at what your library has to offer?

Top 5 treats from Studio Ghibli

List by Danielle

'Simply put, I think that a film which is made specifically for children and made with a lot of devotion, can also please adults. The opposite is not always true. The single difference between films for children and films for adults is that in films for children, there is always the option to start again, to create a new beginning.'
~ Hayao Miyazaki (interview at Midnight Eye)

Long, long ago, in a time far, far in the past where I had no children and could indulgently watch films at will and with tremendous frequency, I remember seeing Spirited Away for the first time, and being sooo excited by it that I ran home and made my nearest and dearest watch it, too. The colours of this animated feature were so vibrant, the mythology so different from anything I'd seen, the story such a surreal journey... it was a world away from any other animated movie I'd ever seen before. This was the start of my love affair with director Hayao Miyazaki, and the magical Studio Ghibli.

One of the neat things about now having kids, of course, is introducing them to movies like these. I was curious - would the imagery be too scary? Would the stories be too unusual for kids who normally scarfed down a diet of Barbie and Disney? Would a dubbed movie hit their ears weirdly? The answer is a walloping NO. They LOVED these movies, starting with Spirited Away and taking off from there. The visual humour and charm are universal, the characters' adventures as intriguing for them as they were for me.

Studio Ghibli have put out many excellent movies, and I haven't seen all of them yet; I can't quite bring myself to watch Grave of the fireflies yet, which is an anti-war movie set at the end of WWII and sounds like a pretty harrowing experience. It's exciting to see that there's a new Ghibli movie in this year's Film Festival, Arrietty, based on Mary Norton's The Borrowers. It's the directorial debut of new Ghibli director, Hiromasa Yonebayashi. "Arrietty is a joyous depiction of an unlikely friendship," says one reviewer, Sarah Louise Dean, who praises the depth, humour and simple beauty that Ghibli brings to the classic story (read her review here).

5 films I'm watching over the next 2 weeks to gear up for the NZ International Film Festival 2011

List idea by Danielle (because Tosca was stuck for how to play this idea out), introduction by Tosca

"I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience."
- Wilson Mizner

Confession: I have never attended an International Film Festival. Not ever. I've always wanted to. But I've never felt that I could go on my own. I've attended gigs by myself, travelled a good chunk of NZ alone, done the Big Day Out solo and even travelled to, and around, New Orleans and Memphis all by my lonesome. And greatly enjoyed it all. But I'm too chicken to go to the film fest on my own. My two BFFs and gazillion siblings have never had the same taste in movies as me. This was never more clear to me than having to see the Star Wars prequels at the picture theatres, in the front row, alone. As a result I have never felt comfortable enough to ask them to come with me. I always hoped that would change. Every year, for the past five years, I have taken a copy of the programme home and faithfully marked every film that caught my interest with a red asterisk. Often I would even take the time to look up alternate films the directors or actors or actresses had been involved with. It became my yearly *wishlist.* Or at least, the wishlist I would fulfill had I the nerve to do so. I have decided, though, that this year is *the* year. I'm going to see Guilty pleasures, which is a documentary that looks at the fantasies that Mills & Boon romance novels promote, and some of the lives of the people who read and produce them. I have to say that I'm quite excited about it all. To maintain this buzz I'm going to spend the next couple of weeks watching/re-watching four of the retro films that'll be screening this year. My fifth, and rather unusual choice, is José Padilha's 2007 prequel to Elite squad 2 which is also screening this month. They're not a top 5 so much as a simple list of 5 :)

Query: Are you attending the NZ International Film Festival 2011? What are you hoping to see?

5 books or films you may not have known were banned or challenged in New Zealand

List by Tosca

"To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor's prohibited list."
- John Aikin

When it comes to freedom of choice in relation to books I have always been eternally grateful that I live in New Zealand. I grew up encouraged to read - through my parents and school - both classic and contemporary books that, in the US, were considered highly controversial. I didn't know they were controversial at the time. It certainly wasn't a concern to my parents or teachers. I know, though, that they didn't encourage me to read those books on a whim. I believe that they gave them to me for three reasons: they had enjoyed them, they thought I might enjoy them and they wanted to challenge my way of thinking. Often I wonder whether or not I've lived up to that ideal. Sometimes, I think yes. Other times, not so much. I've been rather smug in the idea that New Zealand bans very little. Or at least, what I thought was *very little* until I delved a little further. I had assumed that there weren't many titles that had ever been banned (oh, naivety, thy name is Tosca) so I was all kinds of astounded to learn differently. The Office of Film and Literature Classification has a Classified books/film list from 1963 to 9 July 2010 that made for most interesting reading. I downloaded the spreadsheet and browsed through all of those marked 'Banned' and then chose my top 5 from the ones that surprised me the most. So here you go.

Top 5 most quotable movies in honour of the 25th anniversary of 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' (according to TIME)

List by TIME

"Whatever you say, whatever you do, movies always got there first. Even that line you just said comes from a movie."
- Dot the I (2003) – Theo (Charlie Cox)

This is a quickie list. So quick, in fact, that I'm not even going to bother with my trademark longwinded introduction (yes, go ahead, breathe a sigh of relief). I remember that our quiz group (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch - yeah, we're showing our age) had a pretty fast and furious discussion about our top 5 most quotable movies some time last year. Everything from numbers two through to five were highly debatable (and probably highly questionable as well) but we all agreed that our number one choice was Ferris Bueller's day off. I don't think I ever put that list up here, so I'm seven shades of SQUEE that TIME decided to mark the the 25th anniversary of the classic Matthew Broderick film by looking at five other movies with equally as awesome lines. Enjoy!

Query: Do you have a quotable film that didn't make this list? Tell us about it!

Honourable mention:

The wizard of Oz

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Glengarry Glen Ross

Clueless

Napoleon Dynamite