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

• If You Can Get Past the Dire Buildup, Monsters University Bursts to Life

  published June 20, 2013

  Terrorizing children in their bedrooms remains the existential concern of the toothy blobs, hams and pop-pom-furred Wild Things that populate... More >>

• This Is the End: Joke Book of Revelation

  published June 13, 2013

  From the peak of Anchorman to the nadir of Burt Wonderstone, the formula for studio comedies of the last 20 years has been... More >>

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

  published June 13, 2013

  Sometimes, there’s just too damn much to say about a movie than can fit into any one review. (Even More >>

• The Purge Asks Questions, Gives Conflicting Answers

  published June 6, 2013

  Here's a category idea for bar trivia: Collect one-sentence plot summaries of young-adult novel series and R-rated horror films, and see who... More >>

• The Mouth That Ate Itself: Morton Downey Jr. Roars Again

  published June 6, 2013

  Used to be to get famous in the rightwing blowhard racket you had to have an act. Not today. Has anyone ever once thought, "Oh, I can't... More >>

• What Maisie Knew Might Be a Great Movie About Childhood

  published June 6, 2013

  There are times during the affecting tumult of What Maisie Knew when you may think, "At last, a first-rate American movie about... More >>

• If George R.R. Martin Wrote Every TV Show Ever

  published June 6, 2013

  George R.R. Martin took a break from killing Starks today to send us this list of the notes he would send to the producers of TV shows... More >>

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  After Earth: Smith Family Robinson

  published May 30, 2013

  The surprise twist in the new M. Night Shyamalan film is that the film is directed by M. Night Shyamalan, a fact that the movie—like the... More >>

• In Omit the Logic, Richard Pryor Crucifies Himself, Again and Again

  published May 30, 2013

  “Least you got to see a motherfucker crucify himself,” Richard Pryor spits in the most surprising footage director Marina Zenovich... More >>

• The Sublime Dumb Play of Fast & Furious 6

  published May 23, 2013

  There's one key truth that separates the tank-topped gearheads of the Fast and Furious movies from the rest of us. Every problem these... More >>

• 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 >>