MINISERIES PREMIERE: Tonight through Thursday, Showtime presents four one-hour excerpts from filmmaker Oliver Stone’s self-described non-confrontational interviews with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The interviews were filmed in Russia between July 2015 and February 2017, so Megyn Kelly’s recent interview with Putin for NBC was more timely. And while Stone’s approach to talking to Putin may indeed lead to some small character revelations, it’s not a series of interviews I’m approaching with many expectations for journalistic objectivity or standards. More like a conversation between tough-talking dictators – one political, the other cinematic. Think of it as Blowhard and Blowharder.