Day: 30 October 2026

Interview: Obsession director Curry Barker and star Cooper Tomlinson on creative trust, career-defining opportunities and the pressure of getting what you wish for

There’s a fine line between love and obsession, and an even more dangerous one between getting what you want and understanding what it might cost you. In writer-director Curry Barker‘s unsettling supernatural horror Obsession, that distinction becomes terrifyingly blurred when Bear (Michael Johnston), a lonely shop clerk harbouring romantic feelings for his longtime friend Nikki…

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Interview: Michael Johnston and Inde Navarrette on desire, devotion and the dark side of Obsession

Is it really love if the person you desire has no choice but to love you back? It’s a question that takes on increasingly sinister implications in Obsession, the unsettling psychological horror film that explores the dangerous intersection of romantic longing, emotional manipulation and the desperate need to be loved. When hopeless romantic Bear (Michael…

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The Snuts

Album Review: The Snuts embrace Joy in Short Moments

Scotland has never been short on musical talent, and The Snuts are in no danger of letting the side down.  Their brand new album, Joy in Short Moments, is their fourth studio offering and the second released through their own label, Happy Artist Records (in partnership with Virgin Music Group). Formed in 2015, the band consists of…

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Sampa the Great

Album Review: Sampa the Great reimagines Zamrock on Nu Zamrock

Nu Zamrock opens with “Intro”, a conversation between Sampa the Great and her blood uncle George Kunda, set against instrumental music that builds slowly as they speak. Kunda was a founding member of the psychedelic rock band WITCH, and their conversation details how the group helped pioneer Zamrock in the 1970s, moving beyond covers of…

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