Email Author Alan Scherstuhl

Awards

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

  "What's At Stake"

• 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"

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2013 Stories by Alan Scherstuhl

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  Killer Matthew: McConaughey is great, again, 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 still... More >>

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  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... More >>

• Django Is Like "Accidental Racist," Except Not Godawful

  published April 18, 2013

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

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  The Brooklyn Museum: 42 almost makes a flesh-and-blood man of its 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 politic... More >>

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  The Peacekeeper: If you must see The Host, please bring a young man with you

  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 >>

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  Ooh! Aah! Run! Spielberg's dinos still impress in Jurassic Park

  published April 4, 2013

  "They do move in herds," Sam Neill marvels, purportedly gazing at his director's miracle dinosaurs but in reality directing his... 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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  The Un-Exonerated: Documentary frees the West Memphis Three

  published March 21, 2013

  The murder of the children should be the most disturbing thing. But for many viewers, that isn't the case in the four films chronicling the... 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 >>

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  Disappearing Act: Burt Wonderstone vanishes what Steve Carell's best at

  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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  Taiga Burning Bright: Werner Herzog helps out the excellent Happy People

  published March 7, 2013

  Calling Happy People: A Year in the Taiga a Werner Herzog film is something like calling the dozen books with James Patterson's name on... 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 >>

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  Dark Skies: Why do aliens dick around in our bedrooms for weeks before finally abducting us?

  published February 28, 2013

  Neither execrable enough to warrant being so unceremoniously dumped into theaters, nor so thoroughly loathsome that we should be outraged by... More >>

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  Birds Do It; Witches Don't: Beautiful Creatures, the ravishing chastity fantasy

  published February 14, 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 >>

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  Old Habits: Die Hard's latest breaks new ground in incoherence and stupidity

  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 bang-bang... More >>

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  Body Horror: 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 >>

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  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, and the... More >>