by Jon Ronson (Author)

by Jon Ronson (Author)

This story is about what happened when a small group of men – Highly placed in the United States Military, the Government and Intelligence Services began believing in very strange things.

“What if we could end warfare as we know it by harnessing the paranormal powers of a psychic military unit? George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey team up in a darkly comic look at what happens when the government trains soldiers to walk through walls, kill goats by looking at them and engage in other mind-control tactics of cerebral combat,” writes Katy Hall for the Huffington Post.

“This movie looks outrageous and very funny. Even better (or worse?), it’s based on true events described in Jon Ronson’s 2004 book of the same title,” writes Hall.


The plot is this, a reporter, trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails, gets more than he bargains for when he meets a special forces agent who reveals the existence of a secret, psychic military unit whose goal is to end war as we know it. The founder of the unit has gone missing and the trail leads to another psychic soldier who has distorted the mission to serve his own ends.

The Men Who Stare At Goats

Hill’s article here