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Saving Grace: Season Three Premiere

by Leigh H. Edwards

[16.Jun.09] :. Saving Grace looks close to becoming Twilight for the 40something set.

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Saving Grace: Season Two Return

by Leigh H. Edwards

[2.Mar.09] :. Saving Grace mixes a familiar detective procedural structure with psychosexual drama, featuring large doses of metaphysical questioning for good measure.

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Saving Grace

by Leigh H. Edwards

[16.Jul.08] :. In the second season premiere of TNT's Saving Grace, Grace's pursuit of drama took forms that were both overt and effectively repressed.

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Holly Hunter thrilled to return as boundary-pushing cop in ‘Saving Grace’

by Ellen Gray [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[9.Jul.08] :. The phrase “passion project” gets thrown around a lot in Hollywood, but in television, where even the brightest ideas can lose luster in the grind of a weekly series, passion like Holly...

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40something (and up) women are taking over cable TV

by Neal Justin [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[6.Aug.07] :. Holly Hunter told a story recently about secretly convening seven years ago with other top actresses, including Kyra Sedgwick and Mary-Louise Parker, who hatched a plan to take over cable...

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TV Review

Saving Grace

by Michael Abernethy

[30.Jul.07] :. While Saving Grace is yet another series featuring an out-of-the-ordinary detective, it is also an exploration of a woman's multiple crises.

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Part 5: The Return of the Auteur

by PopMatters Staff

[22.Jun.07] :. That noise you heard near the start of the new millennium was the creative din of a brash new breed of filmmakers tearing down the traditions of mainstream moviemaking. Their motion picture mission statements -- including the ones featured on this list -- remain the rulebook for new generations of anxious film artists.

 

The Incredibles (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Mar.05] :. Its snark makes The Incredibles one of those cartoons that mainstream, self-knowing adults might appreciate along with their kids.

 

The Incredibles (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Nov.04] :. Instead of dolls and fishies, the stars of the The Incredibles are angsty adults, specifically, superheroes whose flying-high heyday is over.

 

Little Black Book (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.04] :. A movie where Carly Simon serves as guiding light can't be all bad.

 

Thirteen (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Feb.04] :. As the kids have picked up from every cultural sign around them, sex is a route to adulthood, but it's also an ordeal, a hard test of their young mettle.

 

Thirteen (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Aug.03] :. As the girls have picked up from every cultural sign around them, sex is a route to adulthood, but it's also an ordeal.

 

Levity (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[25.Aug.03] :. 'Levity' is by no means a standard Hollywood movie.'"

 

Levity (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Apr.03] :. Memory is a tricky business. So are movies that mess with it.

 

Time Code (1999)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

You will not, you can not, see the same Time Code I have seen. All viewers of director and screenwriter Mike Figgis’ latest film will be able to say this, because no two viewers will...

 

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

It's a Depression-era musical laid on top of a chain gang escape film, inspired at once by Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Preston Sturges' screwball comedies. But outrageous as it might seem, this ultra-high-concept project suffers from a lack of inspiration.

 

Jesus’ Son (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The elegance of Maclean's film, however, lies i