Coming later this year - Religilous, with Bill Maher, by the director of Borat

A friend of mine from the States has alerted me to a movie coming out in the autumn called Religilous – it's a documentary where Bill Maher travels the world trying to find out just why billions of people believe in God and associated religious matters. It's directed by Larry Charles, who directed Borat, and also worked on Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, and it looks hilarious.

Let's hope it comes out over here - given the comedy pedigree involved, I have high hopes it will. Watch the trailer and see what you think:



Thanks for the tip-off Alexis...

Jesus Camp on TV tonight

Readers in the UK might be interested to hear that the Oscar-nominated documentary Jesus Camp is showing on Channel 4 tonight at 11.05pm.

The film profiles the Kids on Fire School of Ministry, a Pentecostal summer camp in North Dakota where fire and brimstone pastor Becky Fisher trains children to join the "army of God".

I haven't seen it, but it was critically acclaimed when it was released in 2006 and it looks suitably disturbing – see the trailer below: