Articles by Alisha Mughal

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...

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...