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The pairing of Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman in a "Ma Raineys Black Bottom" — which debuts Friday, Dec. 18, on Netflix — would be a big deal on its own merits. The fact that the story of a hot-tempered blues singer butting heads with an ambitious trumpeter is Bosemans last on-screen performance makes it that much more noteworthy. Also Showing: • "Breach": Bruce Willis stars in this sci-fl action thriller about a futuristic interstellar ark fleeing a plague-ridden Eart...

A very good year for documentaries, if an annus horribilis otherwise By Peter Keough Globe Correspondent,Updated December 15, 2020, 8:02 p.m. Email to a Friend Mayor Marty Walsh at the Greater Boston Food Bank, from "City Hall."Courtesy of Zipporah Films Inc. While the big studios struggle under the restrictions of the pandemic, documentary films thrive. Over 140 have been released in 2020 according to Wikipedia, and with difficulty I have picked 10 favorites. They range from “City Hall,â...

As the dust settles on this week's announcement that current Mayor Jenny Durkan will not seek a second term, there are already meaningful conversations taking place about what this means as well as who should be the one to take on the job. There's one film that can offer some insights, despite it being set a world away in the city of Ramallah, Palestine. That film, the documentary Mayor, spotlights Ramallah's leader, Musa Hadid, as...