Articles by Alisha Mughal
'In Flames' Offers Harrowing Comfort
Directed by Zarrar Kahn
PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2024
After each of my experiences of sexual assault, I returned to my parents' home, my home, and tended to myself quietly. I didn't let anybody...
iskwē's Vulnerable Strength: "I Had a Good Front, but I Was a Mess"
PUBLISHED Apr 9, 2024
When I ask iskwē why she recorded her fourth and latest album, 'nīna,' in Mexico City, she smiles in that honeyed way of hers that leaves...
Talia Schlanger Finds a Gentle Resilience on 'Grace for the Going'
PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2024
On 'Grace for the Going,' Talia Schlanger is complex and paradoxical, brilliantly balancing an impressive duality...
'Anyone but You' Is Anything but Convincing
Directed by Will Gluck
PUBLISHED Dec 22, 2023
There's something hollow about Anyone but You. In the now-well-known introduction to the film's trailer, costars Glen Powell and Sydney Swe...
Dogstar Turned Toronto into Reeves's Palace
Lee's Palace, December 9
PUBLISHED Dec 11, 2023
An hour after the frothy cinematic surf of California's Archer Oh washed away, a hush fell over the full house at Lee's Palace. The garag...
'Thanksgiving' Is Basted in Blood
Directed by Eli Roth
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2023
In 2007, Eli Roth and Jeff Rendell wrote a short film called Thanksgiving, with Roth directing what was effectively a two-minute-long spoof...
Yukon Blonde's 'Shuggie' Asks More of Life
PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2023
What does it mean to write in the second person? In literature, it means a great many hefty things, mostly to do with ascription. But in po...
'The Exorcist: Believer' Is Possessed by Being a Terrible Movie
Directed by David Gordon Green
PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2023
Near the end of William Friedkin's 1973 groundbreaking masterpiece The Exorcist, based on William Peter Blatty's electrifying book of the s...