Alan Scherstuhl

Seven Great Clips from W. Kamau Bell's Totally Biased, the Ballsy Comedy/Talk Show From the Future

In this week's cover story, about W. Kamau Bell and his hilarious progressive talk show's leap to a four-nights-a-week broadcast schedule, we found excuses to throw in lots of videos of Totally Biased highlights-- but not as many as we wanted. Read More: W. Kamau Bell's Outrageously Funny 'Totally ... More >>

The Top 12 Movie Romances of Summer 2013

Summer 2013 was a strong season for that oft-maligned genre, the romantic comedy. Excellent films like The Spectacular Now and Drinking Buddies for the most part avoided rom-com cliches, and reinventions like Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing made timeless story lines seem fresh. Still other on-s ... More >>

5 Ways The To Do List Is a Radically Feminist Film

A Guide to Decoding Its Girl-Power Clues

American Flag Edited Out Of White House Down

Conservatives hate White House Down. Brietbart.com called it "unrelenting liberal propaganda disguised as popcorn entertainment." The American Conservative dismissed it as "A Hollywood-White House-Democratic Party Production." "Obama-Porn" the blog Republican Party Animals crowed. Hell, even Mothe ... More >>

Man of Steel: Making Sense of All That Christ and Death Stuff

Warning: This discussion is thick with spoilers.

What Is a Movie Critic's Job in the Summer of Comic Books? A Discussion

Voice Media Group Hires Stephanie Zacharek as New York-Based Film Writer

Eight Great Shows You Haven't Binge-Watched on Netflix Yet

Dark Skies

FoxNation Equates Black Men With Chimps, Transgender People with Mrs. Doubtfire

Angry link-aggregatin' shithole FoxNation.com is the website of choice for white people who can't get through the day without saying "I'm not racist, but here's the problem with [INSERT OTHER RACE HERE]." Most days, the site's main page offers a couple dozen misleading or made-up headlines designe ... More >>

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away

How Much of The Hobbit Can You Read During the Running Time of The Hobbit?

With the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Peter Jackson has given the world 162 minutes of imaginative visions never before realized on a movie screen, save for those in Jackson's previous 12 hours of Middle Earth adventures. It's not bad; it's just stubbornly pokey and almost never gran ... More >>

FoxNation's 2 a.m. Wishful Thinking

This screengrab was snapped by our own Alan Scherstuhl from the FoxNation blog at 2 a.m. -- several hours after Governor Mitt Romney conceded defeat in last night's presidential election.It came roughly four hours after precisely none of these predictions came true.Wishful thinking?To quote Alan, "D ... More >>

Damien Echols Tells Us How Stephen King Novels Taught Him to Write

Free but still not quite exonerated, Damien Echols spent half his life in prison -- much on death row -- as punishment for a crime that he has never been linked to with, say, evidence. Many of those years he suffered in solitary confinement, even as the documentaries Paradise Lost and its sequels r ... More >>

NYFF: Alan Berliner's Wrenching First Cousin, Once Removed

First Cousin Once Removed Directed by Alan Berliner Screens Tuesday, October 9, Thursday, October 11, and Friday, October 12 As upsetting a documentary as you're ever likely to see, Alan Berliner's portrait of the life of poet Edwin Honig after the onset of Alzheimer's is the rare film that truly w ... More >>

NYFF: Kinshasa Kids Only Looks Like a Doc

Today's NYFF update: Alan Scherstuhl on Kinshasa Kids, a vital, urgent film on the main slate. Kinshasa Kids Directed by Marc-Henri Wajnbergos Screens Thursday, October 11 and Friday, October 12 "The white man's filming!" a cop complains early in Kinshasa Kids, sharking toward the camera as the vi ... More >>

Meet Alan Scherstuhl, Your New Voice Film Editor

Good news, Voice faithful: we've got a new film editor!Please join us in welcoming Alan Scherstuhl to the Voice.Alan is a longtime critic and editor with "too many degrees and cities" under his belt. He's covered theater, film, books, and news around the country, including some incredible rants in L ... More >>

The 20 Most-Read Village Voice Stories of 2009

Barring a massive surge of readership between now and Thursday night (and with Michael Musto half-naked on this week's cover, anything is possible), we can safely say that the following stories generated the most interest from our readers this year. (And watch out for #3 -- it's definitely Not Safe ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​Kennedy Airport. Twitpic via sawyerlex. War on Christmas season swung into full effect. In a holiday spirit, the Staten Island D.A. tried shame on shoplifters. A GOP Congressman moved to read a pro-Christmas resolution into the House record. Andrea Peyser denounced the godless Bloomingdales ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

The Albany Coup, Week 2: It started with a shock twist as Hiram Monserrate rejoined the Democrats, putting the state senate in a 31-31 deadlock. The Dems optimistically declared new leader John Sampson the president pro tem. (Just to be on the safe side they sued, but were rejected.) The Republica ... More >>

Cheek, In Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

Yeah, we finally made it to Citi Field Wednesday. What do we think? We think Johan Santana is awesome. Swine Flu fucked up Cinco de Mayo, continued to be funny until we got it. Wait, actually it's still pretty funny, especially since we really didn't get swine flu. But even if! Anyway Raccoon ... More >>

Viral! Our O'Reilly Audio Featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live

People sure like those Bill O'Reilly audio porn clips our own Alan Scherstuhl dug up and posted last week. Now we learn from the Huffington Post that our OReilly love bites have made late-night TV: Jimmy Kimmel recently did a segment in which ordinary citizens were subjected to the hot parts of O ... More >>