Day: 12 January 2026

J.Lo at 25: How Jennifer Lopez’s Sophomore Record Secured Her Pop Legacy

When J.Lo arrived at the turn of the millennium, Jennifer Lopez was already famous – but fame and longevity are not the same thing. Released as her sophomore album, J.Lo carried a weighty question: was Lopez a genuine pop force, or merely a celebrity moment stretched into a record deal? Twenty-five years later, the answer…

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Interview: Director Chloé Zhao, Jessie Buckley and Jacobi Jupe on the love of collaborating on Hamnet

In Hamnet, grief isn’t a rupture so much as a reorientation – a learning to carry love in a new, altered way. Chloé Zhao’s hushed, elemental adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel traces the aftershocks of unimaginable loss through Agnes and Will Shakespeare, as the death of their son Hamnet becomes both a private wound and…

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Film Review: Hamnet; a love story that learns how to survive grief

Hamnet is a film that feels less like it’s being watched than lived alongside. It moves with the hush of grief, the ache of memory, the strange, half-lit space where love continues after loss has shattered its original shape. From its opening scroll –  a simple historical truth that “Hamnet” and “Hamlet” were once interchangeable…

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