Articles by Alisha Mughal

'PG: Psycho Goreman' Is Bloody Good Fun

Directed by Steven Kostanski

PUBLISHED Jan 20, 2021

In her 1964 essay Notes on 'Camp', Susan Sontag says of camp that it is "the love of the exaggerated." In other words, what is campy isn't...

Chadwick Boseman Gives a Masterful Final Performance in 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'

Directed by George C. Wolfe

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2020

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a perfect example of a well-adapted play: it's economical in its use of space, the monologues are mighty, and p...

Edmonton's Yes Nice Kindle Yacht Rock's 'Eternal Flame'

PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2020

Yacht rock is like if disco and folk had a super chill baby. Not so much to be danced to as it is a soundtrack to sweet, calm thoughts by t...

'Happiest Season' Ought to Be a New Christmas Classic

Directed by Clea DuVall

PUBLISHED Nov 25, 2020

With Happiest Season, Clea DuVall has gifted us what just might be the definitive modern Christmas rom-com (step aside, Love Actually and T...

'Dinner with Friends' Has Too Much Dinner and Not Enough Friends

Directed by Nicol Paone

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2020

On paper, the Nicol Paone-written and -directed comedy Dinner with Friends looks lighthearted and fun — an easy and entertaining film for t...

'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...