Robert Abele

When game shows want you to play along, you either solve a puzzle or answer a trivia question. But the Game Show Network’s new series Without Prejudice? wants your armchair-psychology skills — the ones you typically save for those nuanced “He gives me the creeps” or “I’d do her” diagnoses......

When game shows want you to play along, you either solve a puzzle or answer a trivia question. But the Game Show Network’s new series Without Prejudice? wants your armchair-psychology skills — the ones you typically save for those nuanced “He gives me the creeps” or “I’d do her” diagnoses......

There’s a propulsive, roller-coaster quality to the way Steven Spielberg energetically discourses on his movie career in film critic Richard Schickel’s documentary Spielberg on Spielberg, running on Turner Classic Movies. Cinema’s most successful director clearly hasn’t lost any enthusiasm for what he does — and what he’s done — and......

Jet lag and TiVo go together so well it’s a wonder the DVR company hasn’t used it as a selling point. No more channel flipping through endless infomercials! Clear out those backlogged episodes in that ideal state of temporal strandedness! Just back from a trip overseas, my wife and I......

It’s time to cast aside your bitterness over that psychologically tortured New Jersey Mob clan’s abrupt goodbye. There’s a new gang to obsess about on the Sundance Channel next week with an uncensored run of the memorable first season of Shameless, the award-winning British show about the delinquent craftiness of......

Although Showtime is billing it as a documentary, Semper Fi: One Marine’s Journey is essentially a nonfiction performance, a valuable and insightful document from gay ex-Marine Jeff Key about his journey from a Bible-quoting boyhood in Alabama to the all-sexualities embrace of Los Angeles to the shifting military and political......

Looking back on the release of Mel Brooks’s wheezy, labored feature spoof Spaceballs from 1987, one could argue its launch was both too late and too early, coming 10 years after Star Wars first hit theaters and a dozen years before George Lucas trotted out the first of the series’......