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2017: The Year In Movies Part 2

Movie_Reel_22139 different people starred in the movies I saw last year (starring in being the first two named stars, a tradition dating back to the old Chicago Tribune TV guide which populated the early days of my database), and a whopping 17 of them were in more than 1 film.  Those 17 thespians are:

Name Films
Tom Hanks 4
Anna Kendrick 4
Imogen Poots 3
Elizabeth Banks 2
Abigail Breslin 2
Matt Damon 2
Zac Efron 2
Domhnall Gleeson 2
Tom Hiddleston 2
Melissa McCarthy 2
Ellen Page 2
Chris Pratt 2
Ryan Reynolds 2
Julia Roberts 2
Saoirse Ronan 2
Anya Taylor-Joy 2
Allison Williams 2

Now let’s take a look at the remaining movies that I saw in 2017, following up on last Thursday’s post.

The Edge Of Seventeen (2016)
A teenager feels her world going crazy when her best friend starts dating her brother.

Logan (2017)
The latest, and best, Wolverine solo film.

The Princess Bride (1987)
A modern day fairy tale that everyone in my generation saw years ago.

American Made (2017)
Tom Cruise plays the CIA and drug cartels against one another to line his pockets with cash.

The Babysitter (2017)
A young kid fights back when he finds out his babysitter is part of a satanic cult.

Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
The Kingsman return and team up with their American counterparts.

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Thor and Loki team up to save Asgard from their sister.

The Big Sick (2017)
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by jim

Post Mortem – Girls

Given everything that has been written on the Internet about Girls, I don’t know that I have much to offer.  It is a show that I watched for 6 seasons, despite the fact that I hated every character on the show.  Which, I think, was kind of the point.  These were self absorbed millennials who thought the world owed them something and, over the course of those 6 seasons, found out that not only weren’t they owed anything, but that their lives weren’t all that interesting or special.  By the end, they had all mostly gone their separate ways, leaving behind the friendships of their early twenties as they found, or failed to find, their way in the world.

Out of the remains of the show came Adam Driver, who found additional fame in the Star Wars universe, and Allison Williams, who broke out earlier this year in Get Out.  Will the rest of the cast find their way outside of the confines of the show?  Time will tell.