By Kit Bowen and Brian Marder, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, October 03, 2008
Religulous
When: Oct. 3
Who: Bill Maher; directed by Larry Charles
What: Talk-show host/proud atheist Maher explores the role of religion in today’s troubled world. At least that’s the non-incendiary version of this documentary’s concept.
Brian Says: The title is as much a warning as it is a hilarious play on words: Religion--and the Big Guy Upstairs--will be questioned, attacked, jeered and dragged through the mud, so proceed only if you’re cool with no-holds-barred blasphemy as a means of comedy! Of course, those who dare enter Maher’s sermon of secularism are probably already members of the choir to which he is preaching. To those people, Religulous won’t be shocking but rather riotous. Along for the ride is director Larry Charles (Seinfeld, Entourage), no stranger to hot-button docs, having helmed 2006’s Borat.
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