Robert Abele

New York—based filmmaker Jennifer Fox has many issues as a modern woman in her early 40s: self-imposed freedom, societally imposed roles, aging, motherhood, falling for unavailable men, fear of marriage, desire versus love, and growing up in a complicated family. Thankfully, the friends willing to hash these topics out with......

When I was staying in dollar-unfriendly London last week, my wallet was in enemy territory. But while there were plenty of purchases I simply couldn’t justify (mostly concerning icky convenience food), the £8 I shelled out — $16 essentially — for the first-season DVD of the popular BBC2 sitcom Gavin......

Is talent always inherited? MTV’s new contest show Rock the Cradle — focused on the offspring of well-known (and mostly has-been) music stars — is the opposite of American Idol’s out-of-nowhere talent searches. I’m just grateful that Joe Walsh and Eddie Money didn’t pass their looks on to their daughters......

Tinny screams provided the aural backdrop, and the promise of goo-drenched celebrities supplied the suspense, for Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards Saturday night, hosted by Jack Black. It was a shout-tastic celebration of hyperactivity, idol worship and slime theory that even a montage of Cameron Diaz’s boring eco-positivity couldn’t hamper. Sorry,......

The “L” in The L Word, now ending its fifth season, will surely never stand for “logic.” But that’s why I (and I assume many others) watch, anyway: the hilariously incomprehensible plot turns and behavioral zigzags that make this Showtime series the most — pardon the pun — lip-smackingly versatile......

You know the feeling. You’ve settled in for another hour of your favorite reality show, eagerly anticipating the crazy shit about to go down, when the announcer says, “It’s been a wild season so far ... ” Your hungry heart sinks. It’s a damn clip show. Or the stuff-we-never-showed-you installment,......