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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2012 Stories by ALAN SCHERSTUHL

• The Un-Exonerated of 'West of Memphis'

  published December 27, 2012

  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 >>

• Judd Apatow's 'This Is 40' Is a Gas, Gas, Gas

  published December 20, 2012

  Sadly, country songwriters stand as nearly the only entertainers in our popular culture who craft memorable art on the subject of marriage, the... More >>

• Kissing Cousins in 'Hyde Park On Hudson'

  published December 6, 2012

  It's dispiriting that a film about the romantic life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who cultivated a small coterie of mistresses, should exhibit... More >>

• 'Tchoupitoulas': The Real, Real New Orleans

  published December 6, 2012

  While they almost certainly have plans for striking new projects that expand our understanding of what documentaries can be, Bill and Turner... More >>

• 'Addicted to Fame': Shame On Demand

  published November 29, 2012

  Deep into Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates' bouillon-dense fever dream of a novel, Marilyn Monroe at last manages to make it to the set of... More >>

• Good Spielberg's Bad Moments

  published November 15, 2012

  The first few minutes of Lincoln play out like a parody of the expectations of Steven Spielberg's detractors. The Great Emancipator... More >>

• 'Miami Connection' Is So Good It's Good

  published November 8, 2012

  Can we as a culture at last retire the idea that a movie can be so "bad" it's good? I ask this still pleasurably punch-drunk by Miami... More >>

• Michael Jackson's (and Spike Lee's) 'BAD25' Proves Your Butt Is Still His

  published October 25, 2012

  Look, if there's any part of you that thinks you might be interested in catching BAD 25, Spike Lee's two-hour... More >>

• 'Seven Psychopaths' Shows How It Should Be Done

  published October 11, 2012

  Perhaps you've lost faith in movies about amusingly digressive criminals. Maybe you believe it's no longer possible to be pleasurably jolted by... More >>

• 'Atlas Shrugged Part II': Why can't the free market make this movie any better?

  published October 11, 2012

  It's tempting to snipe that the argument of Atlas Shrugged Part II—that the genius of an unregulated free market results in the... More >>

• 'My Father and the Man In Black': Family Tradition

  published October 4, 2012

  It's a weird miracle that Johnny Cash and his primitive twosome banged out music that still feels so full and vital today. And it's a weird... More >>

• Indiana Jones and the Perils of Humanistic Decency

  published September 6, 2012

  The story goes that while filming in Tunisia in the summer of 1980, Steven Spielberg avoided the dysentery that afflicted most of the cast and... More >>

• The Five Most Hilarious Lowlights of '2016: Obama's America'

  published August 23, 2012

  The movie of choice this week for people who hold the beliefs that A) America is the strongest, bestest country that God ever virgin-birthed... More >>

• How Whiny Is Spidey This Time?

  published July 5, 2012

  According to the movies, the greatest triumph that Spider-Man ever achieves is finding it within himself to arachnid up every day. Has any... More >>