obsessive

The rapper and his devotees will provide the jumping off point for a larger film about the "relationship between fanbase and artist" Eminem is fittingly set to co-produce, and be the partial focus of, a new documentary about obsessive superfans, tentatively (and obviously) titled Stans. As Variety reports, the new project was directed by Steven Leckart, and uses Eminem and “the fans that worship him” as a launching point for what’s described as a “revealing, edgy, and disarmingly personal…

Film: The Iron ClawCast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney, Stanley Simons, Holt McCallany, Lily James, Cazzey Louis CereghinoDirector: Sean DurkinRating: 3.5/5Runtime: 132 min This true story about Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s, is a biopic with a difference. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach (who could in today’s terms be labeled abusive), we get to…

The brain of 34-year-old Amber Pearson contains a one-of-a-kind implant. The Oregon resident is the first person to have a deep brain stimulation device that manages both her epileptic seizures and her obsessive compulsive disorder symptoms. Her subsequent improvement has inspired scientists to conduct larger studies of the technology.Alex Winter on Innovative Horror Movies Pearson’s story was first detailed in a case report published last October in the journal Neuron, along with an accompanying article from Oregon…

Why do smart women expect their lovers to leave their wives, despite overwhelming evidence that the contrary is more likely? Australian critic Madeleine Gray is the latest writer to explore this question, in an acutely witty debut that charts, in painful detail, the inexorable arc of an affair between a disaffected millennial and her older, married boss.The story is not original. That’s the point. Other recent novels examining similar relationship dynamics include Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends, Imogen Crimp’s…

As a child, the British actor Tobias Menzies was a talented junior tennis player. At the beginning of the Covid pandemic, he decided to see if he could get his game back. He joined his local club in north London and started hitting, mostly on his own with a machine firing balls at him, at least a couple of times a week: for the first six months, he only struck forehands; then he did a similar stint on his backhand. Two years on, Menzies has finally felt ready to contest matches, mainly against the club pro.“When I started…

Obsession is a perplexing emotion. Its high intensity surpasses all sense of self-awareness making you incapable of resisting the whispers of longing for a person. It’s a state where your mind is no more in control of your actions. One of the most common and complex obsessions is that of being engulfed by thoughts of an unavailable lover. Though I have experienced such a fixation myself, I can hardly make any sense of it. Why did I lose my individuality and flush away my dignity for a man even while chanting phrases of…

In 2011, Lesley Paterson was interviewed in Scotland’s Daily Record after becoming the off-road triathlon world champion. The headline crowed: “I beat my demons to be world champ … now I want an Oscar.” It was hard to know whether Paterson was rash, brash or simply delusional. The athlete had no track record in film. By then, she had spent five years trying and failing to remake the first world war epic All Quiet on the Western Front. It felt like a grand folly. Even her loved ones thought it was a pipe dream.This week,…

Don Paterson, 59, is one of our most outstanding poets, a winner of the Whitbread poetry prize, the Costa poetry award, all three Forward prizes, the TS Eliot prize (twice), and the Queen’s gold medal for poetry. He is about to publish Toy Fights, a memoir of his life up to the age of 20. The book should carry a warning: anyone wanting a quiet book should read elsewhere – it will make you laugh aloud. It describes growing up on a Dundee council estate, an unruly school life and the beginnings of his obsession with music…

via Miramax Combining the obsessive with the erotic can often yield unbridled cinematic sleaze, but 2000’s Malèna largely opted against leaning into its salacious elements in order to tell a more dramatic story, albeit one that features an almost alarming amount of both figurative and literal masturbatory content. Despite failing to resonate with critics, the film’s 54 percent Rotten Tomatoes score is handily dwarfed by its 84 percent user rating from upwards of 25,000 votes, while Malèna also ended up landing…

It’s 6pm on a weeknight in 2002. I settle into a desk chair and thump the huge, round power button on the family computer with my big toe. It clunks like a manual typewriter returning. Several minutes of whirring and clunking ensue as Windows XP boots up, bathing my 13-year-old face in its harsh blue glow. Next, another few minutes of what sounds like Wall-E being fed through a meat grinder as I connect to the internet, preventing my mother from making or receiving phone calls for the next hour. I immediately open Napster…