The Men Who Stare at Goats is a satirical war comedy that follows reporter Bob Wilton, played by Ewan McGregor, as he stumbles upon the bizarre world of psychic military experiments. Teaming up with ...
Almost 20 years ago director Roger Spottiswoode put to the screen an adaptation of an incredible book chronicling some of the crazy, unbelievable things our government, through the CIA, did during the ...
Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking: Germany’s loss in World War I, the JFK assassination and 9/11 are all naturally understood as the stuff of unimaginable plots, unspeakable ...
What would the Cold War have been like if the late Timothy Leary, the LSD-induced guru of the 1960s, had been in charge of training the Army? The absurd comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats takes us ...
“More of this story is true than you would believe,” we are told in the opening moments of “The Men Who Stare at Goats.” It’s a fair warning and one that bears repeating the further the film slides ...
Grant Heslov’s “The Men Who Stare at Goats” is the first of three chances for George Clooney to prove himself this November. Clooney, who produced the film, stars as a US soldier, stationed in Kuwait, ...
There's a lot of energy in "The Men Who Stare at Goats." It can be found in the amped-up performances and in the zigzagging narrative, which hurtles back and forth through time as though the people ...
Now that you’ve already seen the Jedi mind tactics from the mustached psychic soldier George Clooney, take a look at his hand to hand combat skills as he almost breaks Ewan McGregor‘s arm. Secret ...
Almost 20 years ago director Roger Spottiswoode put to the screen an adaptation of an incredible book chronicling some of the crazy, unbelievable things our government, through the CIA, did during the ...
If looks could kill then The Men Who Stare at Goats would be a searing war drama instead of an outrageously funny screwball comedy which just happens to be set against the war in Iraq. George Clooney ...
Think of “Men Who Stare at Goats” as a cross between “Three Kings” and “Catch-22” as filtered through “Dr. Strangelove.” The lunacy of war is certainly the issue in this stranger-than-fiction ...