Props to old friend Steve Hunter (Stephen Hunter in his prolific by-line), former Sun film critic, whose novel, "Point of Impact," is the basis for The Shooter (Paramount, opening March 16) directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Mark Wahlberg as exiled military marksman Bob Lee Swagger suspected in an assassination plot. We were all pretty bummed out around here when Hunter went to the Washington Post as its film critic. He won the Pulitzer prize there in 2003, long overdue, in my opinion; he could have easily won that award a couple of times while reviewing films on Calvert Street. He is a world-class writer, and most of us who have worked in journalism in this region during the last 25 years have been in awe of his talent and productivity. Good for him. Point of Impact is just one of a few Hunter novels -- The Day Before Midnight and The Master Sniper, for instance -- that should have been turned into film long ago. Sorry Lopez, another FOH, isn't here to see this -- and to review the film!