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

• What Maisie Knew Might Be a Great Film About Childhood

  published May 23, 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 >>

• Midnight's Children Has Fireworks Literal and Not, but It Doesn't Light You Up Like the Book

  published May 9, 2013

  One of the most beguiling of the many stories all knotted up in Salman Rushdie's brilliant, baggy, exhausting 1981 novel Midnight's... 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 >>

• Matthew McConaughey is On a Roll, and It Continues in Mud

  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... More >>

• 42 Reviewed: Trying to Make Flesh-and-Blood of a Baseball Hero

  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 >>

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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 >>

• 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 >>

• How Did Burt Wonderstone Make Steve Carell's Awesomeness Disappear?

  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,... 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

  published February 14, 2013

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

• Why Do Identity Thief's Creators Fear What Audiences Love about Melissa McCarthy?

  published February 7, 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 is a Blow to Al Pacino's Legacy

  published January 31, 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 >>

• West of Memphis, a New Doc on an Old Case, Finally Sets Free the West Memphis Three

  published January 24, 2013

  The murder of the children should be the most disturbing thing. The crime-scene photos of three young boys killed in 1993 in West Memphis,... More >>