Email Author Alan Scherstuhl

Awards

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published April 3, 2008

  "The Best Story of the Year"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published April 24, 2008

  "Desert Storm"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published September 11, 2008

  "Water Logged"

• 2009 - Kansas City Press Club Heart of America Awards, published November 13, 2008

  "What's At Stake"

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2013 Stories by Alan Scherstuhl

• Assault on Wall Street

  published May 9, 2013

  Uwe Boll's rep is on the upswing, but, really, what other direction could it go? The consensus choice for the world's worst professional... More >>

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

  published May 2, 2013

  Stephanie Zacharek is the new chief film... More >>

• Mud: Killer Matthew

  published April 25, 2013

  Has anyone ever been so perfectly cast as Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused? Sculpted entirely of charisma and cheekbones yet still... More >>

• Oblivion: A Boy and His Drone

  published April 18, 2013

  The good news: Here's a lavish, serious science-fiction picture, one that on occasion transcends big-budget hit-making convention to glance... More >>

• Django Unchained: The Most Moving Scene Quentin Tarantino Has Yet Filmed

  published April 18, 2013

  Half a year later, now on Blu-ray and DVD, Django... More >>

• 42: The Brooklyn Museum

  published April 11, 2013

  A likable hagiography as nuanced as a plaque at the Cooperstown Hall of Fame, Brian Helgeland's Jackie Robinson bio 42 finds a... More >>

• The Peacekeeper

  published April 4, 2013

  Across America this weekend, wives and girlfriends will accompany their fellas to GI Joe: Retaliation, as boys-shooting-boys movies are... More >>

• A Real American Miracle

  published April 4, 2013

  What must Bruce Willis have felt when he discovered that his seven or so minutes of G.I. Joe: Retaliation screen time offer much... More >>

• Wrong Makes a Right

  published March 28, 2013

  If real life were like Wrong, Quentin Dupieux's sweetly unnerving experiment in ambient fucked-uppedness, your phone would ring... More >>

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  G.I. Joe: Retaliation’s a Battle of Dumb Pleasures Versus Your Higher Brain Function

  published March 28, 2013

  What must Bruce Willis have felt when he discovered that his seven or so minutes of G.I. Joe: Retaliation screen time offer much... More >>

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  Here Are Five Awesome/Crazy Theories About The Shining from Room 237

  published March 21, 2013

  Like the blood that gushes forth from the elevators of the Overlook Hotel, brilliant/ridiculous theories of what Stanley Kubrick’s The... More >>

• The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

  published March 14, 2013

  Steve Carell's gift is for men who might drown in their own obliviousness. Like his Daily Show reporter or The Office's Michael... More >>

• In Top of the Lake, Peggy Olson Goes to Hell

  published March 14, 2013

  Elisabeth Moss’s face is far from the only reason to savor Top of the Lake, Jane Campion’s smart, bracing, hugely... More >>

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  Other Ozzes, Great and Terrible (But Mostly Terrible)

  published March 7, 2013

  Twenty minutes into the first full-length movie based on L. Frank Baum's most beloved novel, a duck pukes into the face of Larry Semon, the... More >>

• Old Habits Die Hard

  published February 21, 2013

  Before anything else, here's how dumb things get in A Good Day for Die Hard–Related Media Product,... More >>

• Birds Do It; Witches Don't

  published February 21, 2013

  Here's a question you can spit back next time someone complains that our popular culture is top-to-bottom depraved: "Then why are our... More >>

• Melissa McCarthy's Body Horror

  published February 14, 2013

  Just a week or so after the Pentagon reversed its ban on allowing female soldiers into combat, here's another breakthrough, of a sort: The... More >>

• Stand Up Guys

  published February 7, 2013

  Please, for his own good, somebody clap Dustin Hoffman into a chastity belt. Based on what Al Pacino suffers in Stand Up Guys,... More >>

• Kings of the Stone Age

  published January 31, 2013

  Here's something you don't get to say too often: It's a shame when Paul McCartney turns up. Before McCartney arrives, rasping, puppy-eyed, and... More >>