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...JESUS GARCIA JR. Lynwood, Calif...
Directed by Liam Lynch Roadside Attractions 2 1/2 stars The title “Jesus is Magic” might evoke the idea of a religious fanatic’s film, something distributed by the likes of televangelist Jerry Falwell. However, this film, written by and starring former “Saturday Night Live” writer Sarah Silverman, is anything but reverent. The comedienne’s most recent endeavor—after small parts in “The Aristocrats” and “School of Rock”—is a filmed stand...
...early fans with vapid pop punk. This insneeriority complex has played itself out in their recent videos. For “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” the band took on war and lost innocence. With their most recent six-minute-plus epic, “Jesus of Suburbia,” they focus on a subject nearer and dearer to them: love and loss among the over-eyelinered. The video’s protagonist, who hubristically claims in subtitled dialogue to be “nailed to a couch, suffering for [his] sins...
...extended household jointly but harbor simmering jealousies. ("Officially," he tells Margene when she asks if he missed her, "I miss you guys all the same.") He has to keep the arrangement semisecret because polygamy is illegal in Utah and banned by the mainstream Mormon Church, or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). Oh, and one of his fathers-in-law (Harry Dean Stanton), the patriarch of a fundamentalist polygamist compound, is shaking him down for a cut of his hardware business. The Osmond family these Utahans...
...interesting evangelical conference, and throughout, rock bands were playing. The rock-'n'-roll culture within the evangelical world is indistinguishable in terms of the sound of the music from the rock culture that came out of a very different, irreligious secular tradition, except that the words are about Jesus--love and all that. They're not resisting outside culture, they're embracing it and kind of making it their own. I think intelligent design and Christian rock are similar. It's about taking up form from the outside and trying to Christianize it. Does the debate over evolution matter...