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 Endures the Pains of Being a Kid, with Fancy Linens

  published May 1, 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 >>

• Often-inspiring Buck-up-a-movement Doc Occupy Love Will Amp Up the Protest Set

  published May 1, 2013

  "Today I can't help feeling that the entire planet is on the verge of becoming ground zero," Velcrow Ripper declares in the opening minutes of... More >>

• !Vivan Las Antipodas! Soars, Flips, Dives, and Seems to Turn the Globe Itself

  published May 1, 2013

  If you plant your feet on the ground and imagine burrowing straight down through crust and magma and then right through the Earth’s... More >>

• Midnight's Children, For Those Who Wants the Gist of the Novel (And No More)

  published April 24, 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 >>

• (Hot) Soul Mounts (Hot) Body in Mortem

  published April 24, 2013

  If you and your quite good-looking soul got locked in a hotel room together, would you be able to resist making out? That imponderable is one... More >>

• Matthew McConaughey Shapes Mud Into Man

  published April 24, 2013

  Has anyone ever been so perfectly cast as Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused? Sculpted entirely of charisma and... More >>

• Dark Touch: A Truly Horrific Horror Film, in a Good Way

  published April 24, 2013

  Toward the end of Dark Touch, a girls-gone-Carrie nightmare of flying knives and pencil-porcupined corpses, director Marina de... More >>

• Richard Pryor Crucifies Himself, Again and Again

  published April 24, 2013

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

• Oblivion: Tom Cruise is an App That Producers Can Buy to Power a Blockbuster

  published April 17, 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 >>

• Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay

  published April 17, 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 >>

• Django Unchained: The Most Moving Scene Quentin Tarantino Has Yet Filmed

  published April 17, 2013

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

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  Sundance Channel's Rectify Takes a Mighty Swing at Greatness

  published April 17, 2013

  At any prior point in TV history, Rectify, a six-part... More >>

• Motown and The Rascals: Jukebox Mausoleum

  published April 17, 2013

  Here’s a test you can take to help determine whether shelling out $150-plus for the Motown musical is for you. Head on over to YouTube,... More >>

• Bathed in Amber Light, 42 Sugars Over the Greatest Generation's Dark Side

  published April 10, 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 >>

• It's a Disaster Remains Effervescent, Apocalypse Be Damned

  published April 10, 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 >>

• "The Middle Ages on Film" at Anthology

  published April 10, 2013

  Forever on fire with fear of God, unburdened by literacy or expectations of a life that might extend past the thirties, ruled by day and night... More >>

• Disconnect Plays on a Compendium of Contemporary Fears

  published April 10, 2013

  Identity theft! Cyber bullying! Runaway teens doing lurid cam shows! This ambitious, multi-storied, state-of-us-all ensemble drama plumbs our... More >>

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

  published April 3, 2013

  "They do move in herds," Sam Neill marvels, purportedly gazing at his director's miracle dinosaurs but in reality directing his... More >>

• Detour Invigorates the Terrifying Minutiae of Claustrophobia

  published March 27, 2013

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

• Wrong Is Real-Life Gone Strange

  published March 27, 2013

  If real life were like Wrong, Quentin Dupieux's sweetly unnerving experiment in ambient fucked-uppedness, your phone would ring before... More >>

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  G.I. Joe: Retaliation's a Battle of Dumb Pleasures Versus Your Higher Brain Function

  published March 27, 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 >>

• The Host: Like Twilight, But With, Uh, Aliens

  published March 27, 2013

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

• Emily Mortimer's Leonie Is Stifled by Mortifying 'Poetry'

  published March 20, 2013

  Something all-too rare is squandered in Leonie: an ambitious lead performance by the stellar Emily Mortimer, that fiery swan so often... More >>

• Go Buy a Ticket for My Brother the Devil

  published March 20, 2013

  Look, before we venture into what could be considered spoiler territory, let's just say this: My Brother the Devil, Sally El Hosaini's... More >>

• Here Are Five Awesome/Crazy Theories About The Shining from Room 237

  published March 20, 2013

  Like the blood that gushes forth from the elevators of the Overlook Hotel, brilliant/ridiculous theories of what Stanley Kubrick’s... More >>