Articles by Alisha Mughal
Hunting Face the Pain on 'You've Got Love (But It Even Tears You Apart)'
PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2022
While initially hopeful, it's difficult to stay dancing to much of Hunting's You've Got Love (But It Even Tears You Apart) — what begins as...
'The Silent Twins' Gives a Voice to Outsider Art
Directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska
PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2022
It's a rare but precious thing to glimpse the nitty gritty of what it looks like for women to create art — and it's doubly precious and imp...
Fake Palms Make Lemonade on the Life-Affirming 'Lemons'
PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2022
Near the end of the penultimate track of their third album Lemons, Fake Palms' mastermind Michael le Riche croons "I do exist, do exist, do...
'Reservation Dogs' Continues to Break Ground — Even When the Cameras Aren't Rolling
PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2022
Reservation Dogs is billed as a comedy, but the pivotal scene of Season 1 was a moment of intense tragedy: in the penultimate episode of th...
Nutrients Find the Sublime in Common Things on 'Different Bridges'
PUBLISHED Aug 4, 2022
Toronto's Nutrients strike a magical sort of balance on their sophomore full-length Different Bridges, managing to be both cool as Paul New...
iskwē and Tom Wilson's 'Mother Love' Is a Stunning Exercise in Contrasts
PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2022
iskwē and Tom Wilson's debut collaborative album, Mother Love, is a glorious wealth of contradictions. It begins with Wilson's voice counti...
'Benediction' Captures the Complexities of a Lifetime
Directed by Terence Davies
PUBLISHED Jun 3, 2022
There are movies that take a lifetime. Terence Davies has a talent for creating such movies, even if they don't begin right at a protagonis...
For All the Hype, 'Crimes of the Future' Isn't That Shocking
Directed by David Cronenberg
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2022
When it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, David Cronenberg made headlines because viewers booed and even walked out during its screeni...