By turning Mark Wahlberg into SuperCop, the Boston Marathon bombing movie sacrifices a large chunk of its credibility.
Christopher Lawrence
Joshua Abbey has chosen a lineup that may be among the festival’s most accessible and inclusive yet. “If you like basketball, if you like Kirk Douglas, if you like Marvin Hamlisch, you can’t go wrong.”
The film tells the true story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, three African-American women who were vital to the Apollo space missions, and some of the indignities they suffered.
The HBO documentary, which debuts Saturday, provides a glimpse into the late Hollywood stars’ mother-daughter relationship.
The rest of 2016 may have been a raging dumpster fire, but there was at least one category in which the year was better than its predecessor: local ties to movies. Meanwhile, on TV, Paula Francis ends a long career as news anchor for KLAS-TV, Channel 8.
Big movies aren’t always good movies. Heck, they rarely are. But they sure are easy to get excited about.
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