Articles by Alisha Mughal

'White Elephant' Vividly Captures the Canadian Immigrant Experience

Directed by Andrew C

PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2020

The importance of Toronto-based director Andrew C's film White Elephant cannot be underestimated or succinctly described. This is, on the o...

Netflix's 'Rebecca' Forgets That It's Supposed to Be a Thriller

Directed by Ben Wheatley

PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2020

Novelist Daphne du Maurier wove her favourite inspirations — water, dogs, food, suspense — into everything she wrote, from the grandest plo...

Hollerado Spinoff Mav Karlo Turns Personal Stories into Universal Healing on 'Strangers Like Us'

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2020

If success in art is measured, not by any academic rubric, but by the universal resonance of a deeply individualistic and personal, often w...

Country Music Film 'Yellow Rose' Contrasts the American Dream with Brutal Immigration Policies

Directed by Diane Paragas

PUBLISHED Oct 7, 2020

Yellow Rose — one of the first movies with a Filipina director to be released domestically with Hollywood studio backing — will mightily de...

'I'm Thinking of Ending Things' Is a Mind-Bending Glimpse into the Inner Workings of Our Psyche

Directed by Charlie Kaufman

PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2020

Charlie Kaufman's latest meandering mind-bender, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, is a difficult film to talk about because it talks about it...

'Fatima' Uses Religious Experiences to Explore Universal Ideas

Directed by Marco Pontecorvo

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2020

The world we're in right now might not be the best to release a film about saints and miracles into, which is what it appears to Fatima is...

'Tito' Is a Strange, Lonely Look at the Ups and Down of Friendship

Directed by Grace Glowicki

PUBLISHED Aug 26, 2020

Grace Glowicki's directorial debut, Tito, is a strange little experimental film that garnered much acclaim in 2019 at the South by Southwes...

Toronto Indie Rockers BLANKS Are Set to Break Out with Debut EP 'Beyond These Walls'

PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2020

Beyond These Walls, the debut EP by Toronto-based power popsters BLANKS, is so great I wish it were a full-length album. Packing a new wave...