Articles by Alisha Mughal

James Irwin Gets Back to His Cosmic Country Roots on 'Stars Blue Wheel'

PUBLISHED May 15, 2020

James Irwin's fourth album, Stars Blue Wheel, is haunting and sombre, but fights tooth and nail to find the light. The multi-talented Toro...

Netflix's 'Trial by Media' Puts Journalistic Bias Under the Microscope

PUBLISHED May 15, 2020

"If it bleeds, it leads" is a saying drilled into you in journalism school. What it means is that death and fear-mongering tend to make the...

'Saint Frances' Shows Real Life Through the Female Gaze

Directed by Alex Thompson

PUBLISHED May 8, 2020

We know we're not supposed to flush tampons down the toilet, but we also know exceptions in cases of emergency tend to be made. This is dem...

Indoor Voices Send Out 'Echoes' of Healing

PUBLISHED May 6, 2020

Close your eyes and lean your head back against something soft and safe when you listen to Echoes, the latest release from Indoor Voices, t...

'A' Is a Harrowing, Beautiful Fever Dream of Loneliness

Directed by Mitchell Stafiej

PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2020

For a while after watching A, I was in a funk. It left me reeling as if from a fever dream and feeling on the brink of migraine for a few d...

Hazel English Gives Us the Pep Talk We Didn't Know We Needed on 'Wake UP!'

PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2020

Hazel English's debut album, Wake UP!, is a delightful triumph that incites self-discovery and love — it's like a soothing, sunbaked day by...

Winnipeg Shoegazers Juniper Bush Are Delightfully Dark on 'Healing Through a Sonic Figure'

PUBLISHED Apr 14, 2020

Juniper trees look like petrified clouds, shocks of green with branches all reaching towards the sky, but they're short and close to the gr...

'The Way Back' Has Too Much Ben Affleck, Not Enough Sports

Directed by Gavin O'Connor

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2020

We like sports movies because they string a compelling narrative of triumph punctuated with melodramatic music through an already viscerall...