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Louis Theroux’s showdown with Scientology over a public road: The nutty new chapter

 One of the best things about Louis Theroux’s funny 2015 film, My Scientology Movie, was how unflappably polite he was while he argued with Sea Org official Catherine Fraser over a frontage road at Scientology’s secretive “Int Base” and whether it was a public street or []

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Louis Theroux enjoys UK award for ‘My Scientology Movie’ ahead of US release

[Theroux and Dower, enjoying their win.]

We managed to catch filmmakers Louis Theroux and John Dower last night as they were celebrating their collaboration, My Scientology Movie, winning an NME Award for “Best []

Chris Shelton: What Louis Theroux missed about the Scientology experience in his film

 A year ago, we were fortunate enough to be in the audience for the worldwide premiere of Louis Theroux’s My Scientology Movie at the London Film Festival. We thought it was hilarious. Louis has such an amazing sense of timing, and his comedic talents are []

Louis Theroux’s movie comes to Oregon, and Jefferson Hawkins is there to talk Scientology

 Jefferson Hawkins sent us this dispatch from the great state of Oregon after he attended a screening of My Scientology Movie there. If you’ve seen the film, you know that Jefferson provides some of the most sobering words about the state of Scientology and the role its enforcers played. We’re glad to hear that Jeff []

As Louis Theroux’s Scientology movie hits theaters, its main subject accuses it of deception

 Maybe it’s all our fault. In the spring of 2012, Academy Award-winning producer Simon Chinn (Man on Wire, Searching for Sugar Man) took us to lunch at the Dos Caminos restaurant on Houston Street in Manhattan to talk about []

Louis Theroux’s ‘My Scientology Movie’: A hilarious take on an unfunny bunch

Louis Theroux at the London premiere of ‘My Scientology Movie’ (Still from interview by Scarlet Howes.)

 A couple of years ago, BBC presenter Louis Theroux made an appeal on Twitter for Scientologists to reach out to him for the new film he was making about the church. We couldn’t help rolling our eyes at the time, []