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Our 15 Favorite Saints

To celebrate John Paul II's beatification, we celebrate our 15 favorite saints.  read more

St. Elmo's Fire to Become ABC Series

Sometimes, you just hope things turn out better than they sound. ABC has plans to bring the 1985 post-grad flick St. Elmo’s Fire to the small screen, with an updated spin on the story of a group of Georgetown grads who hang around their alma mater and (grudgingly, in some cases) enter the rest of their lives. ...  read more

The Top Eight Post-Collegiate Movies for the Aimless Grad

The thing about college graduation is that you’re expected to do something afterward. As always, though, the movies are here for us. Young filmmakers have long exorcised those one or two (or seven) years after graduation, wherein caustic anxiety about the future leads well-educated twentysomethings to enter an extended period of uselessness on their way to whatever’s next. Thus emerged this talky cousin of the coming-of-age movie, which exists mostly to comfort new generations of grads and depress older ones. To mark the release of the canon’s newest title, Adventureland, here’s a quick rundown:...  read more