Review: ‘Kids Are All Right’: A family film for modern times

Definitions of family, love and friendship all get put to the test with wit and warmth in “The Kids Are All Right,” one of the year’s most honest and endearing films.

Blessed with a supremely talented and natural cast, director Lisa Cholodenko (“High Art”), writing along with Stuart Blumberg (“The Girl Next Door”), has fashioned a [...]

‘The Kids Are Alright’: The Adults Are Still Working Things Out

‘The Kids Are Alright’ stars Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as a married lesbian couple raising two teenagers. Their identity as a family unit is challenged when the kids contact and befriend their sperm donor (Mark Ruffalo), and then further challenged when Moore’s character starts humping him. This film has taken some criticism from both [...]

Want A Celebrity Look Alike Baby?

CNN — First came naming babies after movie stars. Then there were copycats of celebrity outfits, Academy Award dresses and even nose jobs. Now, the celebrity chase is getting genetic.

A Los Angeles, California, sperm bank links to photos of celebrities who resemble existing donors in a Web feature called Donor Look-a-Likes. This attempts to give [...]

Sperm and the Single Girl

Michelle Mobilia, a clinical researcher in Boston, Massachusetts, was contemplating grad school when she saw an episode of Lipstick Jungle that changed her life. “A woman was freezing her eggs, and it hit me: I’m 37, and I want to have children.” Within three months, Mobilia had purchased eight vials of sperm from a [...]