to Mickey Rourke shortly after he got robbed of the Best Actor award for THE WRESTLER. Fantastic film about a group of friends who hang out at the diner as an escape from the harsh realities of life. Awesome cast, including Daniel Stern, Steve Guttenberg, Kevin Bacon and of course, Rourke (almost unrecognizable compared to how he looks nowadays) as the smooth-talking ladies' man. Awesome conversations about sex, music and life in general that make me nostalgic for my own youth when my friends and I would hang out at the diner for hours on end and talk about anything and everything. I believe this was Barry Levinson's first film -- and arguably his best.

6. SLEEPAWAY CAMP (1983) -- I don't know how I ever could have calledmyself a horror fan without having seen this cult-classic, but fortunately, that was rectified in 2009. The plot is simple: Awkward, shy Angela goes to summer camp with her protective cousin Ricky. Shortly after their arrival, a series of bizarre, bloody deaths occur. This movie has it all -- gruesomely creative kills (ladies, you'll never look at a curling iron the same way again), plenty of gore, ultra-cheesy acting & dialogue, and one of the greatest shocker endings in horror movie history. Plus it was surprisingly ahead of its time with themes of gender and sexuality. Tremendous fun.

5. MAN ON WIRE (2008) -- A incredible documentary about Philippe Petit, the French stuntman who walked across a wire that he illegally strung up between the Twin Towers in 1974.