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Sophie Dawson’s cannibal drama “Headhunter” and Jingyi Shao’s basketball story “Chang Can Dunk” earned the top spots on the 2020 edition of The Black List.

“Headhunter” follows a cannibal who chooses his victims based on their Instagram clout, but he finds his routine shaken by a man who wants to be eaten. “Chang Can Dunk” centers on an Asian American teen and basketball fan who wants to be able to dunk. He soon learns much more about himself, his friends and his family.

Cat Wilkins’ high-school comedy script “Two-Faced” was fourth on the list. Taraji P. Henson will make her feature directorial debut on the Bron Studios pic, in addition to producing and starring in the movie. “Two-Faced” follows Joy, a Black high school senior whose chance of attending the college of her dreams is threatened by her wildly popular and charismatic school principal after she confronts him with evidence of his racist past.

Darren Lynn Bousman and company's Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival screening tour in the U.S. will commence this August in Los Angeles. Also in this round-up: details on The Charnel House and U.S. release details for the Morituris Blu-ray / DVD.

Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival: In 2012, director Darren Lynn Bousman and his team hit the road and took Lucifer with them, bringing The Devil's Carnival film and accompanying live entertainment to cities across America. Bousman and company are now back to raise a lot of hell and a little heaven in Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival.

Featuring David Hasselhoff, Paul Sorvino as God, and Terrance Zdunich as Lucifer, Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival kicks off its U.S. theater screenings tour on August 11th in Los Angeles. For tour and ticket info, visit:

http://www.thedevilscarnival.com/tickets

"After triumphant collaborations on 2008's Repo! The Genetic Opera and 2012's The Devil's Carnival: Episode One,...

Studio: Lionsgate | Director: John Irvin | Cast: Mena Suvari, Jack Huston, Richard E. Grant, Caterina Murino, Carmen Maura, Matthew Modine

Release Date: 3/15/11 | Price: DVD $19.98

Bonuses: none

Specs: R | 97 min. | Drama | 1.78:1 widescreen | Dolby Digital 5.1 | English and Spanish subtitles

Ratings (out of 5): Movie | Audio | Video | Overall

Garden of Eden is a movie adaptation of a lesser-known, erotically charged Ernest Hemingway novel that was published posthumously in 1986. The producers’ decision to attach the author’s name to the front of the movie’s title was undoubtedly a desperate attempt to drum up some business. It didn’t work, and neither does the film.

Mena Suvari and Jack Huston experiment with the theory that blondes have more fun in Garden of Eden.

The slowly paced story, set in late 1920s Europe, revolves around the nasty, bored heiress Catherine (Mena Suvari, American Beauty) and her considerably more mild writer husband David (Jack Huston, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse...

DVD Review

Frenemy

Directed by: Gregory Dark

Cast: Matthew Modine, Callum Blue, Adam Baldwin, Lisa Brenner, Zach Galifianakis

Running Time: 1 hr 20 mins

Rating: R

Due Out: December 14, 2010

Plot: Two men wander around Los Angeles after surviving a bank robbery at a porn store while discussing the possibilities of destiny intervening with their traumatic moment.

Who’S It For? People who are dedicated to finishing an entire movie, even if it appears that nothing is happening for a large chunk of it (even if the movie is only seventy-six minutes long).

Movie:

Talk doesn’t have to be cheap. Thousands of films, (especially those by Tarantino, who is idealized here in both conversational topics and soundtrack), can have an audience fully on board just with walking and talking heads discussing anything. From Ingmar Bergman’s three-hour long Scenes From A Marriage to Kevin Smith’s Clerk’s 2, no one has to...

DVD Playhouse December 2010

By

Allen Gardner

America Lost And Found: The Bbs Story (Criterion) Perhaps the best DVD box set released this year, this ultimate cinefile stocking stuffer offered up by Criterion, the Rolls-Royce of home video labels, features seven seminal works from the late ‘60s-early ‘70s that were brought to life by cutting edge producers Bert Schneider, Steve Blauner and director/producer Bob Rafelson, the principals of Bbs Productions. In chronological order: Head (1968) star the Monkees, the manufactured (by Rafelson, et al), American answer to the Beatles who, like it or not, did make an impact on popular culture, particularly in this utterly surreal piece of cinematic anarchy (co-written by Jack Nicholson, who has a cameo), which was largely dismissed upon its initial release, but is now regarded as a counterculture classic. Easy Rider (1969) is arguably regarded as the seminal ‘60s picture, about two hippie drug dealers (director Dennis Hopper...

How do you sell a movie that, if people knew what it was actually about, they would never buy it? Why, prominently feature the most famous and well-liked cast member on the DVD box, even if he’s in the film for only 15 or so minutes, of course! Writing up a misleading description for the back won’t hurt either.

When you look at the Photoshop Disasters-worthy cover of Frenemy, Zach Galifianakis’ friendly face, framed by Callum Blue (Dead Like Me, Smallville) and Matthew Modine (Full Metal Jacket, Weeds), looks back at you. The visage, topped by big, round and red letters spelling out the film’s title, suggests a wacky comedy. The back description, on the other hand, brings to mind a dark comedy, albeit not the one this movie actually is. It describes a “group of friends” who witness a “horrifying crime” which leaves all but one unharmed.

A look at what's new on DVD today:

"Gasland" (2010)

Directed by Josh Fox

Released by New Video Group

"Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work"

Directed by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg

Released by Mpi Home Video

"Exit Through the Gift Shop" (2010)

Directed by Banksy

Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories

If you haven't caught up on the year's best documentaries in time to fill out your top 10 list, three of them will be hitting DVD shelves this week, beginning with Josh Fox's Sundance award-winning "Gasland," an exploration of the "hydraulic fracturing" going on in own backyard, a type of drilling that has spread to 34 states in the U.S. and has left a host of reservoirs of toxic waste and frequent gas explosions along the way. For something less serious, but equally compelling, there is also Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg's "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work," which follows the...

Are you sick of Zach Galifianakis yet? Based on the mixed reviews of Due Date, I'd say that the backlash is already well underway, but that hasn't stopped him from trying to squeeze as much as he can out of the window of opportunity that The Hangover has provided him with. The man has appeared in at least five movies this year, and now there is yet another one due to hit store shelves before the end of the year. Yes, that's right, the movie is called Frenemy and it is another direct-to-dvd affair, not unlike Operation: Endgame which Anchor Bay also released this past summer. It seems like the kind of low budget stuff you should be avoiding once you're a big star, but what do I know? The movie is directed by Gregory Dark, who also did the Kane horror flick See No Evil, which is probably not a good sign.

Once upon a time, Gregory Dark’s “Frenemy” was called “Little Fish, Strange Pond”. I suppose someone with a suit and tie and a degree in marketing figured it would work better in a retail setting with a shorter title and a big ol’ picture of Zach Galifianakis on the cover of the DVD. Go figure. At any rate, the picture sounds interesting, particularly since someone once compared the production as a cross between Kevin Smith and David Lynch. Kevin Smith and David Lynch? I don’t know if I should be thoroughly horrified, deeply intrigued, or completely dumbfounded. After all, those are two names you don’t hear in the same sentence very often. At least in my world, anyway. Here’s what “Frenemy” is all about: After a group of friends witness a horrifying crime, they wonder how they were lucky enough to escape, unharmed, while one friend did not.