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<\/a>Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed<\/a><\/i>, a documentary on the Intelligent Design movement and the opposition it faces from evolutionary scientists and the academic establishment, was originally<\/a> going to open in February, on Charles Darwin\u2019s 199th birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n
The release date has since been postponed to April 18, and both the filmmakers and their opponents are using the extra time to raise awareness of the film, whether intentionally or otherwise; Variety<\/a><\/i> was already reporting on the movie\u2019s promotional efforts almost a month ago, and both SlashFilm<\/a> and Paste<\/a><\/i> magazine have noted that the new release date puts the movie out there about two months before Bill Maher\u2019s religion-mocking documentary Religulous<\/a><\/i>, which will presumably have a similar \u201cguerrilla v\u00e9rit\u00e9<\/a>\u201d style but from a completely opposite ideological point of view.<\/p>\n Today, the New York Times<\/a><\/i> reported that Orlando Sentinel<\/i> critic Roger Moore<\/a> caused a stir recently by giving the film a negative review at his blog. Leonard Pierce<\/a> at The Screengrab has also written a scathing review, though the film\u2019s fans don\u2019t appear to have noticed it yet. In the meantime, the film has had glowing endorsements from Tom Bethell<\/a> of the American Spectator<\/i> and Jack Cashill<\/a> of WorldNetDaily<\/a>, and a more balanced assessment from my colleague Brett McCracken<\/a>. Moore has been criticized for failing to sign and then follow a non-disclosure agreement, but McCracken says there was no such form to sign at the screening he<\/i> attended; it is not clear whether Pierce, Bethell or Cashill were asked to honour any embargoes before writing their own commentaries.<\/p>\n Ben Stein, who narrates the film and stars in it, has spent the past few months drumming up interest in it, starring in trailers and doing interviews and so forth and so on. My own interview with him will appear at CT Movies closer to the film\u2019s release date.<\/p>\n For now, here is the extended trailer, which includes a nod to Ben Stein\u2019s cameo in Ferris Bueller\u2019s Day Off<\/a><\/i> (1986):<\/p>\n