Articles by Alisha Mughal

'Things Heard & Seen' Faces the Horrors of Privilege and Gaslighting

Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini

PUBLISHED May 3, 2021

Calling Amanda Seyfried's character in Things Heard & Seen a "nervous-wife" type would be to misread this multifaceted character. Nothing l...

'Boys from County Hell' Finds the Heart in Vampire Comedy

Directed by Chris Baugh

PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2021

What would you do if the man you paid with a bottle of whiskey to guard the construction site your dad put you quasi in charge of turns int...

'Like a House on Fire' Is Carried by a Star-Making Lead Performance

Directed by Jesse Noah Klein

PUBLISHED Mar 30, 2021

Nothing much really happens in one of the most striking scenes in Like a House on Fire. The protagonist, Dara (Sarah Sutherland), sits on a...

'Night of the Kings' Is a Riveting Story About Storytelling Itself

Directed by Philippe Lacôte

PUBLISHED Mar 12, 2021

Night of the Kings (La nuit des rois) is a tour de force, but, seemingly impossibly, it's more than that — it's so subtly brilliant that th...

'Underplayed' Highlights EDM's Diversity Problem — and Shows Why It's So Important to Fix It

Directed by Stacey Lee

PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2021

"You can't be what you can't see," says Alison Wonderland in Underplayed, a documentary about the dearth of gender, sexual, and ethnic repr...

iskwē Swaps Out Electro-Pop Immediacy for Orchestral Haunt on 'The Stars' EP

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2021

You'd be wrong if you thought iskwē's acākosīk couldn't get better. If the Juno-nominated album can be likened to a beautifully destructive...

"Westerns Are the American Myth": Steve Zahn on How 'Cowboys' Sets the Stage for a Hopeful Future

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2021

The reason behind why Steve Zahn agreed to the role of Troy in the Anna Kerrigan's film Cowboys is simple: "I sat down and read it and crie...

'Judas and the Black Messiah' Offers a Surface Look at an Iconic Political Leader

Directed by Shaka King

PUBLISHED Feb 12, 2021

The title of Judas and the Black Messiah sets up a biblical dynamic that the film doesn't quite do justice to. Though a good primer for tho...