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

• 'Fast & Furious 6': Oh, This Is Why We Have Car Chases

  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 >>

• Hate-Watching 'Hating Breitbart'

  published May 23, 2013

  Let's say that you and your friends get accused of being racist. And let's say there's nothing in your heart that fits that accusation. You... More >>

• There Ain't No Good Guys In 'Black Rock'

  published May 16, 2013

  Seemingly crafted to validate the fears of those conservatives who rage that the white man can't get respect on the big screen these days,... More >>

• 'Assault On Wall Street': Tom Joad Kills 'Em All

  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 >>

• 'What Maisie Knew': The Awkward Age

  published May 2, 2013

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

• Want a Vague Idea of 'Midnight's Children'? See the Movie!

  published May 2, 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 >>

• 'Mud''s 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... More >>

• A Boy and His Drone In 'Oblivion'

  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 >>

• The Lesson Learned From 'Deceptive Practice': Never Take Your Eyes Off Him

  published April 18, 2013

  Turns out, Ricky Jay is one of those guys who has to sit in the restaurant with his back to the wall. That's not just because the... More >>

• 'It's a Disaster': Did You Bring a Dish?

  published April 11, 2013

  Perhaps the first great indie apocalypse-potluck comedy, Todd Berger's It's a Disaster aces many of the fundamentals bobbled by too... More >>

• How Does 'Jurassic Park 3D' Play When You Can't Fast Forward?

  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 >>

• The Best Theories of 'Room 237'

  published March 28, 2013

  Theory: The Shining is about the genocide of Native Americans. Evidence: The Overlook Hotel's... More >>

• 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation': A Real American Miracle

  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... More >>

• 'Detour': Underground Hit

  published March 28, 2013

  Again and again, movies show you killing, but it's one in a thousand onscreen killings that might get you to feel something of what killing is... 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 before... More >>

• The Peacekeeper

  published March 28, 2013

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

• Steve Carell's Disappearing Act

  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... 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 >>

• 'Beautiful Creatures' Is a Swampy, Romantic Good Time

  published February 14, 2013

  Birds Do It, Witches Don't: Beautiful Creatures is a ravishing chastity fantasy More >>

• Old Habits Die Hard

  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 >>

• The Creators of 'Identity Thief' Have Misplaced Body Horror

  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 >>

• The Golden Boys of 'Stand Up Guys'

  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 >>

• 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 >>

• Werner Herzog's Smiling 'Happy People'

  published January 24, 2013

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