News Source: The Guardian
| 26 days ago
Like Dr Strangelove , this crazy comedy of military madness is based on a non-fiction work (Jon Ronson's T he Men Who Stare at Goats ), and stars Ewan McGregor as Bob Wilton, a frustrated Michigan journalist in search of adventure who heads for the...
News Source: The Independent
| 26 days ago
The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jon Ronson's book about the Pentagon's secret experiments in psychic combat, has been adapted into a film in the least satisfying way possible. It stars Ewan McGregor, as a small-town reporter who hears about the...
News Source: CNN
| 26 days ago
The movie is one of those over-the-top absurdist antiwar ''satires'' that are inevitably likened to Dr. Strangelove, though a better comparison might be the fractious, madcap-incoherent film version of Catch-22. "The Men Who Stare at Goats" was...
News Source: The Guardian
| 27 days ago
Grant Heslov, 2009, US) George Clooney, Ewan McGregor. A fiction less strange than the truth, this takes the juicy bits from Jon Ronson's startling book on the outer limits of US military research but doesn't quite know what to do with them.