Low Approval Ratings Greet W.

Portrait of the president is for the 60% of folks with an 'open mind'

(NEWSER) - Oliver Stone is looking to attract the political center with his new movie, W., about the life our 43rd president, USA Today reports. The film, a satirical biopic starring Josh Brolin as George W. Bush, is neither hagiography or damning indictment. “I'm not interested in that radical 15% that hate Bush or the 15% to 20% who love Bush,” Stone said. More»

Josh Brolin and Megan Fox are stuck in a badly executed flop

(NEWSER) - Critics pretty much hate Jonah Hex, the new Westernish flick with Josh Brolin, Megan Fox, and John Malkovich.

• Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times : A "smoldering ash heap. ... Brolin's intermittent voice-over narration proves to be the most powerful stuff, with the rest curiously sputtering."
• Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune : "Industrially processed entertainment at it cheapest, nastiest and greasiest."

Dakota Fanning-Kristen Stewart vehicle divides critics

(NEWSER) - Critics praise the performances in The Runaways, about Joan Jett's seminal '70s band, but whether the flick succeeds is up for debate. Some takes:

• "Say what you will about the Runaways," Peter Travers writes in Rolling Stone , but "they never played it safe. The movie does." He wants more out of the verboten relationship between Dakota Fanning's Cherie Currie and Kristen Stewart's Jett. Still, "Fanning scores a knockout."

But feisty actor still has fightin' words for Russell Crowe, critics

(NEWSER) - Louisiana prosecutors have agreed to drop all charges against Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright for a July barroom brawl the two allegedly got into while filming Oliver Stone’s W. Brolin and Wright, along with five members of the film’s crew, faced misdemeanor charges from the fight, People reports. More»

Slate looks at some key W moments

(NEWSER) - The script for Oliver Stone’s biopic about George Bush has leaked to the press, and Juliet Lapidos picked through it to find some choice lines for Slate:

• The future president’s proudest moment at Yale? Pouring “cheap vodka into a large garbage can” while another frat pledge “mixes in orange juice.”
• The day after he turns 40, a hung-over Bush gives up on a jog: “Heart POUNDING in his chest. ... Then leans over, retching.”