The Church of the SubGenius may not be a household name across the country, but beginning in the early 1970s, a pair of enterprising Texas-area satirists turned one wildly overt religious experiment ...

You couldn’t escape his ubiquitous mug back when Austin was truly weird. It appeared on bumper stickers, bulletin boards, telephone poles, streetlights, bathroom walls, and more: A perfectly coiffed ...

On behalf of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, Black and Boone Productions announces the first ever documentary on the Church of the SubGenius, Slacking Towards Bethlehem: J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and the Church of the ...

Midway through Sandy K. Boone’s J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius, viewers finally get a description of the religion at the heart of the documentary. Sporting the same smart-alecky grin ...

In the 1980s and ‘90s, among various American undergrounds, knowledge of the Church of the SubGenius, the teachings of J.R. “Bob” Dobbs or the doctrine of “Slack” was a pretty good way to identify ...

Exclusive: Sandy K. Boone's new film looks at how a fake church in Texas became way more real than anyone involved could have possibly imagined. The Church of the SubGenius may not be a household name ...

"If you want to sell a religion, you have to kill the deity. That's how you do it." Ahahah genius, indeed! A festival promo trailer has debuted for a new documentary titled J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the ...

Like 8mm films of 1960s “happenings” or videos of 1970s performance art, “J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius” chronicles a cultural footnote that perhaps should be filed under the ...

Sandy K. Boone tells the surprising tale of a Texas-born fake religion in 'J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius.' By THR Staff I first learned of the Church of the SubGenius in a small ...

J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius ist ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem Jahr 2019 von Jason Wehling und Sandy K. Boone mit Nick Offerman und Richard Linklater. J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church ...