I also rewatched Sister Act but I mean.. obviously it's the best film ever made.
1. 
Crackheads Gone Wild
I am so iffy on this that it's proving really difficult to even write the first sentence of a review. There's a whole story behind this that the title was given as a way to lure Bum Fights type fans to watch and show them a really devastating look at crack addiction. I'm guessing that the truth is more that they gave it controversial title to make more money but it's true that there is absolutely nothing exploitively funny about it. So I'm torn. It seems wrong to pay addicts $3-$5 to appear cracked out of their minds on film, but most of the interviews are people talking about participating in this because as a hood documentary it shows crack addiction as it is. They don't look like Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly, they don't rise above it like a Lifetime movie, and there's no romantic sense of comradery among the squatters. They haven't seen their kids, they shit on the walls of a crack den in Bankhead, they prostitute for drug money, and their mental health deteriorates faster than their body. It doesn't have an IMDB so I linked to a more well worded review. It is really depressing to watch if you're from Atlanta. One woman who is featured in it I see everyday at Woodruff Park talking and yelling at invisible people. In the movie she's pretty high but still aware of her surroundings so she took that steap of a nose dive in just like 4 years?
2.
Closet Land - 1991 - Radha Bharadwaj
This hasn't been released on dvd and is on youtube if you would like to see it. The entire film takes place in a single room with just two actors, Alan Rickman and Madeleine Stowe. You would think that would be the makings of an incredible short yet a horrifically boring feature film. Alas, the set is santized to creepiness and the two actors are the definition of reviting in their roles. In a dystopian police state a children's author is taken into custody for a book the government believes to have political undertones. Alan Rickman is the "interrogator" though his job is moreso to force a confession, not necessarily gather information. He uses physical, mental, and emotional tactics to drive her to insanity. The characters are unnamed with the interrogator given no back story. It's emotionally draining but ultimately incredibly satisfying to watch to completion.
3.
Bug - 2006 - Tracy Letts
Clausterphobic and unnerving but ultimately fell flat for me. I like the idea of people's emotions feeding so deeply into one another that one person's insanity ends up drowning the other. It just felt like there was something that needed to be thrown in to make it terrific but alone, it was basically dull. One scene in particular I thought was brilliant, though. When the pizza man rings the doorbell the main characters are sitting by the door convincing each other that he's the enemy but they don't want him to know that they know. The dialogue and intense exchange was the realest scene in the movie. Actually it just hit me that this would make a TERRIFIC stage play if it's not already.
4.
Crazy Love - 2007 - Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens
This has seriously haunted me since I watched it. A documentary about the evolving romance of a New York couple. Boy meets girl. Boy loves girl. Girl leaves boy. Boy stalks girl. Boy throws acid on girl's face. Boy goes to jail. Girl has issues. Boy gets out of jail and proposes to girl. Boy marries girl and they live happily ever after. I know there are some people who find this story to be very romantic but uh. I'm not one of them. The film makers let the characters tell their own story which considering the topic, must have been fairly difficult to edit as objectively as possible. For me, the tragedy of Linda wasn't necessarily that she married the man who blinded her. It's that I wasn't able to pick up on this crazy-love-of-a-lifetime feel from her. He's still obsessed with her but I felt like she married him out of self consciousness having not found someone who would accept her disfigurement. This is certainly thought provoking and even a week later the person I watched it with and I are still discussing it.
5.
Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trick Baby - 1999 - Matthew Bright
I was sort of hoping for a real sequel to Freeway considering Natasha Lyonne is just as great of an actress as Reese Witherspoon. It's a huge downgrade but was an excellent buffer to watch directly after Crazy Love. Lyonne, or White Girl, escapes juvenile detention with her psychotic sex crazed bunkmate Cyclona and go on the hunt for a transgendered Mexican nun played by Vincent Giallo. The freeway ride to Tijuana consists of group bulimia, necrophilia, murder, drugs, alcohol, and sex. Not to be upstaged by Mexico's cannibalism and child torture. Enjoyable yet typical post-Waters B-movie 90s schtick. What I really enjoyed was the ultra low budget advertisement for Puppet Master dolls at the beginning of the VHS.
6. No Country for Old Men - 2007 - Ethan & Joel Coen
It was ok. And it was too hard to find an ~150x150 picture on google so whatever.
7. The Orphanage - 2007 - Juan Antonio Bayona
It was very, very good although it should have ended five minutes earlier. I'm happy to see that some people can still make good ~twist~ endings that meticulously agree with every other plot point. Unlike Haute Tension & others. This time I'm just too lazy for a picture and this entry is really long anyway.
Crackheads Gone Wild
I am so iffy on this that it's proving really difficult to even write the first sentence of a review. There's a whole story behind this that the title was given as a way to lure Bum Fights type fans to watch and show them a really devastating look at crack addiction. I'm guessing that the truth is more that they gave it controversial title to make more money but it's true that there is absolutely nothing exploitively funny about it. So I'm torn. It seems wrong to pay addicts $3-$5 to appear cracked out of their minds on film, but most of the interviews are people talking about participating in this because as a hood documentary it shows crack addiction as it is. They don't look like Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly, they don't rise above it like a Lifetime movie, and there's no romantic sense of comradery among the squatters. They haven't seen their kids, they shit on the walls of a crack den in Bankhead, they prostitute for drug money, and their mental health deteriorates faster than their body. It doesn't have an IMDB so I linked to a more well worded review. It is really depressing to watch if you're from Atlanta. One woman who is featured in it I see everyday at Woodruff Park talking and yelling at invisible people. In the movie she's pretty high but still aware of her surroundings so she took that steap of a nose dive in just like 4 years?
2.
Closet Land - 1991 - Radha Bharadwaj
This hasn't been released on dvd and is on youtube if you would like to see it. The entire film takes place in a single room with just two actors, Alan Rickman and Madeleine Stowe. You would think that would be the makings of an incredible short yet a horrifically boring feature film. Alas, the set is santized to creepiness and the two actors are the definition of reviting in their roles. In a dystopian police state a children's author is taken into custody for a book the government believes to have political undertones. Alan Rickman is the "interrogator" though his job is moreso to force a confession, not necessarily gather information. He uses physical, mental, and emotional tactics to drive her to insanity. The characters are unnamed with the interrogator given no back story. It's emotionally draining but ultimately incredibly satisfying to watch to completion.
3.
Bug - 2006 - Tracy Letts
Clausterphobic and unnerving but ultimately fell flat for me. I like the idea of people's emotions feeding so deeply into one another that one person's insanity ends up drowning the other. It just felt like there was something that needed to be thrown in to make it terrific but alone, it was basically dull. One scene in particular I thought was brilliant, though. When the pizza man rings the doorbell the main characters are sitting by the door convincing each other that he's the enemy but they don't want him to know that they know. The dialogue and intense exchange was the realest scene in the movie. Actually it just hit me that this would make a TERRIFIC stage play if it's not already.
4.
Crazy Love - 2007 - Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens
This has seriously haunted me since I watched it. A documentary about the evolving romance of a New York couple. Boy meets girl. Boy loves girl. Girl leaves boy. Boy stalks girl. Boy throws acid on girl's face. Boy goes to jail. Girl has issues. Boy gets out of jail and proposes to girl. Boy marries girl and they live happily ever after. I know there are some people who find this story to be very romantic but uh. I'm not one of them. The film makers let the characters tell their own story which considering the topic, must have been fairly difficult to edit as objectively as possible. For me, the tragedy of Linda wasn't necessarily that she married the man who blinded her. It's that I wasn't able to pick up on this crazy-love-of-a-lifetime feel from her. He's still obsessed with her but I felt like she married him out of self consciousness having not found someone who would accept her disfigurement. This is certainly thought provoking and even a week later the person I watched it with and I are still discussing it.
5.
Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trick Baby - 1999 - Matthew Bright
I was sort of hoping for a real sequel to Freeway considering Natasha Lyonne is just as great of an actress as Reese Witherspoon. It's a huge downgrade but was an excellent buffer to watch directly after Crazy Love. Lyonne, or White Girl, escapes juvenile detention with her psychotic sex crazed bunkmate Cyclona and go on the hunt for a transgendered Mexican nun played by Vincent Giallo. The freeway ride to Tijuana consists of group bulimia, necrophilia, murder, drugs, alcohol, and sex. Not to be upstaged by Mexico's cannibalism and child torture. Enjoyable yet typical post-Waters B-movie 90s schtick. What I really enjoyed was the ultra low budget advertisement for Puppet Master dolls at the beginning of the VHS.
6. No Country for Old Men - 2007 - Ethan & Joel Coen
It was ok. And it was too hard to find an ~150x150 picture on google so whatever.
7. The Orphanage - 2007 - Juan Antonio Bayona
It was very, very good although it should have ended five minutes earlier. I'm happy to see that some people can still make good ~twist~ endings that meticulously agree with every other plot point. Unlike Haute Tension & others. This time I'm just too lazy for a picture and this entry is really long anyway.