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...bouncy and bright-eyed, with stuffed animals, goofy-sized T-shirts and, of course, unformed minds that can be bent into strange shapes by determined mentors. It is the latter quality that preoccupies Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, co-directors of the well-made and very disturbing documentary, Jesus Camp...
...What we witness here are young children, not yet in touch with their own sexuality, being turned into anti-abortion fanatics, carrying little model fetuses around in their hands and weeping over the unborn souls. Which says nothing of Fisher's conviction that her Jesus Camp is an anodyne for similar institutions in the Muslim world where, she believes, children are being trained as suicide bombers...
...Jesus Camp seems to me most interesting (and poignant) as a portrait of denied and even desecrated childhood. I am not myself a religious believer. That said, however, I think parents who do believe have an absolute right to introduce their children to whatever religion they follow - but gently so. Sunday school is fine. So are the instructions for confirmation that all religions offer. But the explicit politicization of religious belief that this film shows taking place is wrong. So is the fact that it appears to make religion the sole metaphor through which they apprehend a complex world...
...Scoundrels” doesn’t do Heder justice for the charisma and actual screen presence he actually possesses. His character is so poorly written and socially ignorant you almost want Thornton to sling blade him out of existence. Supporting roles from Sarah Silverman (“Jesus is Magic”), David Cross (“Arrested Development”) and Ben Stiller make a last-ditch attempt to garner some laughter but just can’t carry this uncreative vehicle. Fortunately for Silverman though, “Scoundrels” proves she is becoming a comedic...
...show is the movie, as much as it can be: essentially, the story of King Arthur rounding up his Knights in quest of the chalice Jesus drank from during the Last Supper. It reassembles most of the familiar scenes (the Black Knight's joust, the taunting Frenchman, the Trojan Rabbit, gay Prince Herbert), lines (A: "He's a king." B: "How can you tell?" A: "He doesn't have sh-- all over him.") and shtick (the coconut shells in lieu of clip-clopping horses, the characters presumed dead who aren't, quite...