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Tom Nixon

Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsMarch 2, 2014

Trash-Horror Ephemera: The Films of Chester Novell Turner

By Chuck Williamson

Film Critic Chuck Williamson believes that, when faced with the confrontational trash-horror ephemera of Chester Novell Turner, qualifiers like “good” and “bad” lose all meaning.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsFebruary 26, 2014

Reinventing the Reel: The Monuments Men

By Jay Sizemore

Film Critic Jay Sizemore wonders whether George Clooney’s passion for his new project The Monuments Men proved to be its undoing.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsFebruary 22, 2014

In Praise of Shadows: Tanizaki and Horror

By Marcus Nicholls

Contributing Editor Marcus Nicholls applies the ideas of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki to a comparison of Western and Eastern horror cinema.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsFebruary 19, 2014

Reinventing the Reel: Robocop

By Jay Sizemore

Our disappointed film critic Jay Sizemore gathers his thoughts on one of the worst attempts at a franchise revamp he has ever seen.

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Arts & Culture, Film, Special FeaturesFebruary 14, 2014

Valentine’s Day: Editors’ Movie Picks

By Film Editors

The Missing Slate’s film team is joined by other editors in choosing the movies readers ought to watch this Valentine’s Day.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsFebruary 12, 2014

Private Theatre: White Reindeer

By Tom Nixon

Senior Film Critic Tom Nixon argues that Zach Clark’s christmas comedy White Reindeer becomes even more relevant as we settle into the new year.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsFebruary 8, 2014

Private Theatre: Inside Llewyn Davis

By Christine Jin

Inside Llewyn Davis fits into the Coen brothers’ “consistent moral vision”, writes Contributing Editor Christine Jin.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsFebruary 5, 2014

Reinventing the Reel: Nebraska

By Jay Sizemore

Alexander Payne’s Nebraska may not be a feel-good road trip movie, but Film Critic Jay Sizemore writes on why it’s a journey we all need to take.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsJanuary 29, 2014

Reinventing the Reel: Dallas Buyers Club

By Jay Sizemore

Film Critic Jay Sizemore explains why there’s “hope to be found” in Jean-Marc Vallée’s Dallas Buyers Club.

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Arts & Culture, Film, The CriticsJanuary 22, 2014

Reinventing the Reel: Her

By Jay Sizemore

“Her is the ‘Fahrenheit 451’ of the iPhone age”, writes film critic Jay Sizemore about a film on human connection and what it really means.

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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.