Dubya at the Cineplex

I will say one thing for Oliver Stone — the guy ain’t boring. The new trailer for “W.,” his film chronicling the travails of the nation’s 43rd president, points to a movie that looks more like a Michael Moore wet dream (now that’s a pleasant image) than an ostensibly balanced biopic.

The casting alone is inspired. I love it that Barbra Streisand’s stepson, Josh Brolin, will play the title role (Brolin’s daddy, James, you might remember, played a dottering Ronald Reagan in CBS’ ill-fated 2003 TV movie on the Reagans).  Never let it be said that “left-wing Hollywood” shuns the label of “left-wing Hollywood.”

The Bush loyalists are certain to gnash their teeth and wring their hands, but I, for one, look forward to what promises to be a steamy gumbo of unsubstantiated anecdote, free-floating paranoia, psychoanalytic drivel and okra (mmmm … okra). Stone mined similar territory in his 1995 picture, “Nixon.” I suspect “W.” will capture that same pitch of near-hysteria. Say what you will about Oliver Stone, but I’ll be first in line to the opening of “W.”

– Chase