Articles by Alisha Mughal

The Myths of Anthony Shim's 'Riceboy Sleeps' Are Grounded in Real-Life Experience

PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2023

In the beginning of Riceboy Sleeps, a lavender-orange sun blankets South Korea like a burning god over water that looks unmoving, uncaring....

'Boston Strangler' Shows the Humanity Behind True-Crime Stories

Directed by Matt Ruskin

PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2023

There is a photograph of journalist and newspaper editor Agness "Aggie" Underwood, one of the first women to hold the editorship role at a...

Jonah Yano Creates Portraits of Memories

PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2023

What is a song? For Hiroshima-born, Montreal-based musician Jonah Yano, it's something tangible, to be thumbed through like a collection of...

Winter Storms Were No Match for Alvvays' Heart-Melting Toronto Show

History, December 15

PUBLISHED Dec 16, 2022

By the time Slow Pulp finished their set and left the stage to make way for Alvvays, a warm familiarity had set over the crowd at History o...

'Spoiler Alert' Compassionately Gives Away Its Heartbreaking Ending

Directed by Michael Showalter

PUBLISHED Dec 5, 2022

It's a sweet mercy that Spoiler Alert begins at the end, at the weeping-heart-and-tear-soaked-pillow-case stage. At the final gasp, before...

'All the Beauty and the Bloodshed' Is an Empowering Chronicle of Activism

Directed by Laura Poitras

PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2022

For photographer and activist Nan Goldin, photographs function as witnesses to the past, serving reliably where the mind tends to confabula...

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...