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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsJanuary 15, 2014

Defining GRAVITY

By Jay Sizemore

Film Critic Jay Sizemore delves deeper into what makes Gravity so great.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsJanuary 2, 2014

Reinventing the Reel: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

By Jay Sizemore

Film Critic Jay Sizemore hasn’t really bought into what the makers of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty were trying to deliver. Read his review to see why.

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Film, The CriticsDecember 26, 2013

Reinventing the Reel – American Hustle

By Jay Sizemore

Film Critic Jay Sizemore talks about David O. Russell’s latest film, American Hustle.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsDecember 18, 2013

Reinventing the Reel – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

By Jay Sizemore

Film Critic Jay Sizemore raves about the latest J.R.R. Tolkien adaptation, blockbuster The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

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Arts & Culture, FilmNovember 21, 2013

Private Theatre: Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers

By Tom Nixon

Film Critic Tom Nixon writes about Harmony Korine’s ‘Spring Breakers’

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsOctober 31, 2013

Halloween & Halloween: Or How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Boogeyman

By Tom Nixon

Just as trick-or-treaters start rolling into town, Tom Nixon talks about Halloween and the evolution of its “heroes” in the past decades.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsOctober 30, 2013

The Top Ten Scariest Films of All Time (as of now)

By Jay Sizemore

This Halloween, film critic Jay Sizemore talks about his list of the film world’s scariest scaries.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsOctober 16, 2013

A Whiff of the TIFF: The Double

By Daumoun Khakpour

Daumoun Khakpour continues his presentation of this year’s TIFF films, with a review of Richard Ayoade’s The Double.

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Arts & Culture, Film, MagazineOctober 14, 2013

Passage Through the Zone

By Rhea Cinna

Fear of the new and unexplored take center stage in this essay by Senior Film Critic Rhea Cinna on Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker.

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Arts & Culture, Film, MagazineOctober 14, 2013

The Man of Propaganda

By Jay Sizemore

The Missing Slate’s Jay Sizemore on how film can suffer when pandering to an often unknowing public.

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One last love letter...

April 24, 2021

It has taken us some time and patience to come to this decision. TMS would not have seen the success that it did without our readers and the tireless team that ran the magazine for the better part of eight years.

But… all good things must come to an end, especially when we look at the ever-expanding art and literary landscape in Pakistan, the country of the magazine’s birth.

We are amazed and proud of what the next generation of creators are working with, the themes they are featuring, and their inclusivity in the diversity of voices they are publishing. When TMS began, this was the world we envisioned…

Though the magazine has closed and our submissions shuttered, this website will remain open for the foreseeable future as an archive of the great work we published and the astounding collection of diverse voices we were privileged to feature.

If, however, someone is interested in picking up the baton, please email Maryam Piracha, the editor, at maryamp@themissingslate.com.

Farewell, fam! It’s been quite a ride.