Articles by Alisha Mughal
'Best Wishes to All' Showcases a New Voice in Japanese Horror
Directed by Yûta Shimotsu
PUBLISHED Jun 13, 2025
In a short story from 1973 called "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," writer Ursula K. Le Guin considers the worth of happiness. ...
'Materialists' Lives in a Cold and Lonely Material World
Directed by Celine Song
PUBLISHED Jun 13, 2025
In the Celine Song-written and directed Materialists, Dakota Johnson's Lucy takes great care getting ready for work. In the film's opening...
Bells Larsen Embraces Self-Discovery on His Own Timeline: "We're All in Flux"
PUBLISHED Apr 24, 2025
"I can hear Noah talking, so I'm going to change rooms," folk singer and songwriter Bells Larsen says before carrying me, in his laptop...
'Heart Eyes' Finds True Love Amidst the Bloody Hellscape of Modern Dating
Directed by Josh Ruben
PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2025
Dating in the current technological moment is its own gruelling circle of hell. It's not just courtesy of the motley web of apps...
'Nosferatu' Feeds Off of Its Predecessors
Directed by Robert Eggers
PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2024
In singing the praises of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent odyssey Nosferatu, Roger Ebert described the film as, "in awe of its material. It seems...
Menno Versteeg Has Plenty of Life to Live on 'Why We Run'
PUBLISHED Dec 11, 2024
There's a play by Tom Stoppard called 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.' It's been described variously as tragicomedy, surreal humour...
Keira Knightley's Visceral Complexity Makes 'Black Doves' a Spy Classic
Created by Joe Barton
PUBLISHED Dec 5, 2024
Keira Knightley knows her voice, the beasts unleashed and restrained by its pits and zeniths. This knowledge is nowhere more cunningly on...
Tess Parks's 'Pomegranate' Savours the Taste of Life as it Really Is
PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2024
Listening to Tess Parks's third solo album 'Pomegranate,' I couldn't stop thinking about critic Malcolm Jack's encapsulation of the...
