Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Not that McGregor has any help from director Grant Heslov, who’d still be taking coroner roles on CSI if his megastar buddy-from-acting-class hadn’t chosen him for a production partner after burning out on Steven Soderbergh. Directing with a budget for the first time, Heslov doesn’t just fail to find a tone for the film — he may not have been looking. We have no idea how to...
EarthFirst.com (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
It seems too ludicrous to be real: a U.S. Army unit that sought to acquire and refine Jedi-like powers, and trained by attempting to kill goats through mind power alone. But the movie ‘The Men Who Stare at Goats’, starring George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor and Kevin Spacey, is based on actual events and [...]
Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | yesterday
From : In the new film, “Men Who Stare at Goats,” director Grant Heslov looks at what America's military force would be if it were controlled by New Age tactics rather than violent means.The film starts with reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) looking for a new way to spice up his life. He then encounters Sgt. Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), a retired member of the now defunked New Age Army....
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Part of the story angle behind Grant Heslov's directorial effort The Men Who Stare at Goats is that the film is based on a true story. Usually I ignore that sort of background when first approaching a movie -- I want a film to work on its own merits, rather than as an adaptation or recounting of history -- but after the fact it's always fun to look at the real material that inspired a story. In this...
EclipseMagazine.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare at Goats opens with the disclaimer: More of this is true than you would believe. Based on the non-fiction book of the same name, it is a film that looks at the U.S. Armed Forces’ attempts to explore the possibility of using paranormal abilities for war. The framing story [...]
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Getting his project cast and financed was not the hard part for Grant Heslov.
The Afro Film Viewer (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Year: 2009 Director: Grant Heslov Screenplay: Peter Straughan Starring: George Clooney , Ewan McGregor , Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey The Men Who Stare At Goats is a film which reminds me of one of my favorite films of 2002: Confessions of a dangerous mind. Both deal with larger than life characters who may or may not have had self-confessed influential roles with American government agencies. Confessions...
battle royale with cheese (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Screenrush talk to the director of The Men Who Stare At Goats about psychic warfare and bossing George Clooney around... More about this movie
The Screening Log (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Robert Zemeckis' 3D motion-capture version of " A Christmas Carol " topped the North American box office Friday with a solid $8.9 million in ticket sales. Opening at 3,683 locations, the Walt Disney release scored an average of $2,433 per theater. New entry " The Fourth Kind " also delivered a decent start at the box office, pulling in $5 million from ticket sales at 2,527 locations....
California Literary Review (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Imagine a world in which the military trains soldiers not to kill enemies of the state, but to infiltrate their minds with the Jedi mind trick. A different political and military climate in which soldiers in camo sport long hair, have dance parties, and hold daisies in their hands. A military unit in which recreational drugs enhance the training, where drills include psychic exercises and the Privates’...
Spanish Teaching (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Washington Post Grant Heslov, George Clooney team up for 'The Men Who Stare at Goats.'Los Angeles TimesBy Rachel Abramowitz >>> It all started with an unlikely pairing of two unknowns. Back in the '80s, a couple of struggling actors named Grant Heslov and George Clooney were in Milton Katselas' famed acting class. Clooney asked Heslov, then [...]
Atomic Popcorn (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Seven out of ten times, I’m going to come out enjoying a film that operates on its own terms. It’s the first and best thing I can say about Michael Mann, which just adds to my fanboy nature when it comes to his work. As a more recent example, the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man [...]
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The director and the star have been friends and colleagues since the 1980s. It all started with an unlikely pairing of two unknowns. Back in the '80s, a couple of struggling actors named Grant Heslov and George Clooney were in Milton Katselas' famed acting class. Clooney asked Heslov, then a student at USC, if he wanted to do a scene from Neil Simon's Depression-era play " Brighton Beach Memoirs."...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
By: John Gholson I'm not sure why, but Overture Films has chosen to downplay the "based on a true story" aspects of their high-profile new satirical film The Men Who Stare at Goats . The film finds Ewan McGregor as a journalist looking for a story in Iraq who stumbles across a former member (George Clooney) of a special platoon of psychics employed by the U.S. military. While many moments...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The Men Who Stare At Goats (12A) (Grant Heslov, 2009, US) George Clooney, Ewan McGregor. 94 mins. 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. The result is an uneven Iraq war escapade with journalist McGregor and unhinged undercover op Clooney, peppered with...
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sylvan9t6fj | 11/06/2009
A fun tone is undermined by disjointed storytelling in George Clooney's "The Men Who Stare at Goats," and it all starts with the disclaimer that opens the movie: "More of this is true than what you might imagine." This wry comment serves as a nod and a wink from the filmmakers, a license to do what they will to Jon Ronson's amusing nonfiction account of the U.S. military's hush-hush research into psychic...
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