Oliver Stone: A Bush Fan? | Newsweek Entertainment: Movies

REVIEW
Not Much Dubya in Stone’s ‘W.’
David Ansen 10/11/2008 12:00:00 AM
Two weeks ago, on Anderson Cooper's show on CNN, Paul Begala called the president of the United States "a high-functioning moron." Nobody on the show, which included Republicans and Democrats, batted an eye or uttered a word of protest. What was newsworthy was that the incendiary remark was barely considered newsworthy. That's how far George W. Bush's stock has fallen on the eve of the election: he has passed from controversy to complete irrelevance. Just how peripheral Bush now seems, in the wake of the country's economic meltdown, is not a situation Oliver Stone could have foreseen when he set out to make "W."—nor is it one that works in the movie's favor. The zeitgeist threatens to turn a hot-button movie into a cinematic lame duck.
ENTERTAINMENT
Spring Movie Guide
4/4/2008 12:00:00 AM
Big names like Adams Sandler, Steve Carell and Mike Myers dominate this spring's raucous comedies. Sandler and Myers go back to formulas that have worked for them before, while Carell attempts a big-screen version of a TV comedy (let's hope it's better than "Bewitched"). Only one sequel in this year's comedies, but since it's "Harold and Kumar" expectations are, no pun intended, "high" (look for that special 4:20 showing near you).
The True Toll of War
Eleanor Clift 11/16/2007 12:00:00 AM
The Democratic-controlled Congress is once again trying to change the course of U.S. policy in Iraq; once again they've failed. Without 60 votes in the Senate, the latest war-funding bill, passed by a narrow margin in the House and with a quarter of the money requested by the White House, fell short—and President Bush has emerged the victor. We've seen this movie before, except this time it has a new wrinkle: a huge drop in public consciousness about Iraq.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Devin Gordon 10/27/2006 12:00:00 AM
An Untrue ‘Path’?
Marc Peyser 9/7/2006 12:00:00 AM
American Psyche
8/23/2006 12:00:00 AM