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Tom Nixon

Arts & Culture, Film, Special FeaturesMarch 23, 2015

Independent I: An Interview With Anam Abbas

By Tom Nixon

We talked to Anam Abbas about her upcoming film ‘Showgirls of Pakistan’, a documentary feature on the lives of dancing girls in Punjab, Pakistan.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsMarch 19, 2015

Super Bad: The Dubious Tendencies of Judd Apatow

By Tom Nixon

Guest contributor Tristan Marajh questions whether Judd Apatow can be regarded as among the smartest or most compassionate people in Hollywood.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsMarch 12, 2015

Private Theatre: Video Diary of a Lost Girl

By Tom Nixon

Film critic Chuck Williamson writes on Lindsay Denniberg’s ‘Video Diary of a Lost Girl’, a film “invested in reconfiguring rape culture paradigms”.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsFebruary 11, 2015

Reinventing the Reel: Foxcatcher

By Tom Nixon

Film critic Michael Dodd writes on Bennett Miller’s ‘Foxcatcher’, the most unexpected omission from the Academy’s Best Picture nominations.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsFebruary 5, 2015

Reinventing the Reel: Birdman

By Tom Nixon

Michael Dodd writes on Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Birdman’, “a wry look at modern celebrity and the struggle to keep up with an ever-changing digital and fame-obsessed world”.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsJanuary 24, 2015

Reinventing the Reel: Inherent Vice

By Tom Nixon

Film critic Ben Hynes on Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, a hazy adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsJanuary 18, 2015

Private Theatre: Gone Girl

By Tom Nixon

Contributing editor Christine Jin writes on David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’, last year’s most hotly debated film.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsNovember 27, 2014

Reinventing the Reel: Grace of Monaco

By Chuck Williamson

Film critic Chuck Williamson gathers his thoughts on ‘Grace of Monaco’, Olivier Dahan’s much-maligned Cannes 2014 opener.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsNovember 20, 2014

Reinventing the Reel: Dukhtar

By Ali Zubair

Ali Zubair writes on ‘Dukhtar’, “the latest in a new wave of Pakistani films driven primarily by the vision of filmmakers and their desire to tell stories beyond the usual commercial motivations”.

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Arts & Culture, Film, Special FeaturesNovember 12, 2014

Independent I: An Interview with Charles Pinion

By Chuck Williamson

Film critic Chuck Williamson interviews Charles Pinion — an ex-artist and punk singer turned transgressive filmmaker — about his methods, philosophy and new film ‘Aztec Blood’.

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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 [email protected].

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