I will freely and happily confess to giggling more than a little bit when I heard that Jon Ronson's book The Men Who Stare At Goats - a real life piece of investigative journalism exploring a real US military program devoted to creating psychic soldiers capable of killing (goats were the test subjects) with their minds - was being made into a film. Ronson's work is brilliantly fun to read, odd and quirky and meticulously researched, the experience made all the more strange and bizarre by the fact that it is all absolutely, 100% real. I had a bit of a sad twinge over the fact that they were fictionalizing the film but, honestly, it probably makes more sense to do it this way and I was confident that in the right hands this would be one fantastic film.

Well, I'll have my chance to see it soon enough when it premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival but I got my first taste today with the freshly arrived trailer. Verdict? Oh, yeah ... this is good. The casting is perfect, the tone spot on, the dialogue hilarious. Between this, the new Soderbergh and the new Coen Brothers' flick it's a great time for fans of smart American indie comedy. Check the trailer out at Apple!

Reporter Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor) is in search of his next big story when he encounters Lyn Cassady (Academy Award®winner George Clooney), a shadowy figure who claims to be part of an experimental U.S. military unit. According to Cassady, the New Earth Army is changing the way wars are fought. A legion of “Warrior Monks” with unparalleled psychic powers can read the enemy’s thoughts, pass through solid walls, and even kill a goat simply by staring at it. Now, the program’s founder, Bill Django (Oscar® nominee Jeff Bridges), has gone missing and Cassady’s mission is to find him. Intrigued by his new acquaintance’s far-fetched stories, Bob impulsively decides to accompany him on the search. When the pair tracks Django to a clandestine training camp run by renegade psychic Larry Hooper (two-time Oscar® winner Kevin Spacey), the reporter is trapped in the middle of a grudge match between the forces of Django’s New Earth Army and Hooper’s personal militia of super soldiers. In order to survive this wild adventure, Bob will have to outwit an enemy he never thought possible.