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Alan Scherstuhl is film editor at The Village Voice. He also covers books, music, and other matters for the Voice, in addition to writing Studies in Crap, his ongoing humor column about bizarre books and ephemera found at junkshops.
2014 Stories by Alan Scherstuhl
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COVER STORY
Citizenfour Captures Urgent, Nerve-Racking History in Progress
published October 22, 2014
Director Laura Poitras's Citizenfour boasts an hour or so of tense, intimate, world-shaking footage you might not quite believe... More >>
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23 Blast Might the Best of This Year's True-Story High School Christian Football Dramas
published October 22, 2014
Here's a priceless chunk of dialogue, spoken between a pair of friends/rivals on 23 Blast's high school football team: "It is so... More >>
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Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me Will Make You Cry Even If You Don't Remember Who Glen Campbell Is
published October 22, 2014
Kids may not know "Wichita Lineman," and boomers may have forgotten his hot-shit 12-string flurries, but singer/songwriter/TV star Glen... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Here are 6 Movies Opening This Weekend You Don't Know About But Should
published Oct 17, 2014
Each week new movies open in New York (and online) by the dozen. The Voice reviews all of 'em. Here's some you might not have heard about that got our critics excited, for better or worse:Chris Packha... More >>
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Stations of the Elevated Is a Graffiti-Bombed NYC Blissout
published October 15, 2014
Lumbering, skronking, and wondrously paint-bombed, Manfred Kirchheimer's Stations of the Elevated (1981) is a 45-minute... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Six Movies Opening This Weekend You Don't Know About But Should
published Oct 10, 2014
Each week new movies open in New York (and online) by the dozen. The Voice reviews all of 'em. Here are some you might not have heard about that got our critics excited, for better or worse. Horror-ho... More >>
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Kristen Stewart's Not Bad Taking on Gitmo in Camp X-Ray
published October 15, 2014
Let's get this out of the way now: Kristen Stewart is fine in Camp X-Ray, the tough-minded/soft-hearted drama that packs America's... More >>
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Onur Tukel's a Hilarious Chatterbox Vamp in Summer of Blood
published October 15, 2014
The tasteful white-on-black title text suggests that this motor-mouthed vampire-in-Brooklyn comedy is meant to suggest the best of Woody... More >>
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Watchers of the Sky Celebrates the Fight Against Humanity's Worst
published October 15, 2014
The greatest lie of the last 80 years: “Never again.” At this moment, Omar al-Bashir, the world's wickedest despot,... More >>
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Ann Leckie's Ancillary Novels Offer Inventive, Humane, Thrilling SF
published October 8, 2014
For all its corpse-soldiers and intergalactic assassination attempts, Ann Leckie's Hugo/Nebula-winning 2013 novel Ancillary Justice... More >>
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Waiting for August's Resilient Teen Heroine Keeps her Family Going
published October 8, 2014
What's perhaps most moving in Waiting for August, a quiet film of weight and joy, is its sense of desperate normalcy. Newcomer Teodora... More >>
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Darius Clark Monroe's Personal Crime Doc The Evolution of a Criminal is a Marvel of Feeling
published October 8, 2014
Vital, thoughtful, and deeply personal, first-timer Darius Clark Monroe's autobiographical doc stands as a testament to the power of movies to... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Eight Movies Opening This Weekend You Don't Know About But Should
published Oct 03, 2014
Each week new movies open in New York (and online) by the dozen. The Voice reviews all of 'em. Here's some you might not have heard about that got our critics excited. Critic Diana Clarke relishes -... More >>
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Dracula Untold: What's the Fun of a Dracula Who Hates Neck-Biting?
published October 8, 2014
This Dracula Begins–style sword-and-fangs curio plays like someone said, “What if we took a vampire flick but did a... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Five Awful/Hilarious Books by Left Behind Creator Tim LaHaye
published Oct 02, 2014
Since 2008, your Crap Archivist has brought you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Perhaps the most amusing and dispiriting of th... More >>
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Murray Plays for Laughs Until St. Vincent Gets Maudlin
published October 8, 2014
The big news: In its first half, before it bottoms out with the rankest feel-goodery, Theodore Melfi's too-familiar ain't-he-irascible... More >>
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Pact 2, Horror 1: The Sequel Pales Before the Original
published October 8, 2014
The best that can be said of The Pact 2 is that its existence might draw the attention of more viewers to The Pact, a superior... More >>
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Fishing Without Nets Examines a Hijacking from the Somali Pirates' POV
published October 1, 2014
Perhaps the most frightening thing about blockbuster thrillers and action films is their purposeful lack of empathy, their reliance on faceless... More >>
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NYFF: Cunning and Cutting, The Blue Room Leaves You Guessing
published September 24, 2014
Mathieu Amalric's brisk, agreeably nasty thriller The Blue Room turns on a couple murders -- or does it? -- but rather... More >>
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The Ebullient Clark Terry Perseveres in Keep On Keepin' On
published October 1, 2014
Seeing a living legend laid up in an oxygen tent shouldn't be fun. But in Alan Hicks’s doc Keep On Keepin’ On, it somehow is.... More >>
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FEATURED STORY
Eight Movies Coming Out This Weekend You Don't Know About but Should
published Sep 26, 2014
Each week, new movies open in New York (and online) by the dozen. The Voice reviews all of 'em. Here's some you might not have heard about that got our critics excited.The critics were cranky this w... More >>
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Doc Last Hijack Animates the Life of a Somali Kidnapper
published September 24, 2014
Sadly, the singular element intended to differentiate this Somali pirate flick from the clutch of other Somali pirate flicks... More >>
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Nice Guy Denzel Kills in the Cartoonish Equalizer
published September 24, 2014
Before its regular-joe hero gets bitten by a radioactive equation and becomes the Equalizer, who's sort of the Rain Man of puncturing... More >>
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The Likable This Ain't No Mouse Music Documents Roots Music's Documenter
published September 24, 2014
Even the subject of the slight, likable doc This Ain't No Mouse Music would admit that he's not the most fascinating person in the... More >>
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Harlem Street Singer Celebrates Reverend Gary Davis's Acoustic Blues
published September 24, 2014
Here's the rare lionizing-a-musician doc that strikes a smart balance between vintage footage, talking-head testimonials, and contemporary... More >>
