Reinventing the Reel: Birdman
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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Private Theatre: Gone Girl
Contributing editor Christine Jin writes on David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’, last year’s most hotly debated film.
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Editors’ Books of 2014
Our editors pick the best reads of 2014 that contextualized the year for them.
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Editors’ Films of 2014
The best films of 2014, as selected by our editorial team.
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Reinventing the Reel: Grace of Monaco
Film critic Chuck Williamson gathers his thoughts on ‘Grace of Monaco’, Olivier Dahan’s much-maligned Cannes 2014 opener.
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Reinventing the Reel: Dukhtar
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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Independent I: An Interview with Charles Pinion
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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Halloween: The TMS Alternative Horror Selection
The Missing Slate’s film team offer up their selection of alternative horror picks for Halloween.
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‘Nam in Hollywood (Part Two: War is Hell)
In the second part of a series on the Vietnam war in Hollywood, Michael Dodd explores how American cinema addressed ‘Nam itself and influenced the nation’s perspective on the war.
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Writing Fiction Anthology, Vol.1
As a special web anthology, The Missing Slate presents the work of its first fiction writing workshop graduates.
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