Ewan McGregor

...puts the viewer in a much more open mindset, which is essential for this film. McGregor portrays a writer, Bob Wilton, whose wife leaves him for his editor. In response, Wilton goes to Iraq but cannot find a way in. He then meets Lyn...

In this article: Jedi, Kevin Spacey, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and Obi-Wan Kenobi

Ewan McGregor plays Bob, a naive journalist who longs to cover the Iraq War. He meets Lyn (George Clooney), an oddball vet who tells him about the New Earth Army. They find a secret base in Iraq where a nasty New Earth alumnus (Kevin Spacey)...

In this article: Michael Jackson, Jim Carrey, Spike Jonze, Trademark, Arthur, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and NASA

...Daredevil.) Ewan McGregor plays journalist Bob Wilton, who ships himself to Iraq after his wife leaves him, and winds up in the company of Lyn Cassady (George Clooney), retired member of the U.S. Army's First Earth Battalion. Cassady takes...

In this article: The Men Who Stare at Goats, Jedi, Star Wars, U.S. Army, Kevin Spacey, and George Clooney

...Despite Clooney Cool Today 11:26 AM PST by Luke Y. Thompson Review in a Hurry: Ditched by his wife, reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) makes a semi-suicidal beeline for Iraq. There he encounters apparent psychic soldier Lyn Cassady...

In this article: George Clooney, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Scorpion King, Jedi, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Iraq War

...animals to death. Clooney plays a prodigy of this New Age militarism, with Jeff Bridges as his Dude-like mentor, Kevin Spacey as a psychic rival and Ewan McGregor as a reporter uncovering the story amid the war in Iraq. The movie opens with...

In this article: Jon Ronson, Mariah Carey, Mo'Nique, Lee Daniels, Grant Heslov, George Clooney, Militarism, Jedi knight, and Oscar

...use paranormal powers to fight with. McGregor plays a reporter who comes across the story of a lifetime when he meets a Special Forces operator, played by Clooney, who claims to possess psychic powers. Directed by Grant Heslov the film was...

In this article: George Clooney, London Film Festival, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Grant Heslov, US, and Iraq

...journalist stranded in Kuwait waiting to get into Iraq. In Kuwait he meets Clooney's Cassady, a former soldier who's about to head into Iraq on a self-described secret mission. With nothing better to do, Wilton manages to tag along, and...

In this article: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Goat, Jon Ronson, Peter Straughan, and Kevin Spacey