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”.
Contributing editor Christine Jin writes on David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’, last year’s most hotly debated film.
Our editors pick the best reads of 2014 that contextualized the year for them.
The best films of 2014, as selected by our editorial team.
Film critic Chuck Williamson gathers his thoughts on ‘Grace of Monaco’, Olivier Dahan’s much-maligned Cannes 2014 opener.
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”.
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’.
The Missing Slate’s film team offer up their selection of alternative horror picks for Halloween.
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.
As a special web anthology, The Missing Slate presents the work of its first fiction writing workshop graduates.