Politico has the inside track on a sneak preview of “Casino Jack.”  Advance copies of the film are floating around town…

But despite the familiar names and Washington settings, such as Abramoff’s former restaurants Signatures and Stacks Deli, the film is less a documentary than a kind of Washington “Goodfellas” with plenty of artistic license.

“The worst thing you could do in your career as a director is to make a political film,” Hickenlooper told POLITICO. “I wanted to do a movie about white-collar thugs. … I didn’t want it to be ‘All the President’s Men.’”