32 h. ago Thursday Murder Club Helen Mirren's 'favourite' mascara is an £8 Amazon buy

"Hands down the best mascara I’ve ever tried. It gives amazing volume and length without clumping"

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33 h. ago The Thursday Murder Club cast on who would survive a real murder mystery

Naomi Ackie and Daniel Mays sit down with us to talk all things The Thursday Murder Club – from what it was like stepping onto set with legendary acting icons like Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley and Pierce Brosnan, to who in the cast would survive (and who wouldn’t) in a real-life murder mystery.

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3 d. ago Dancing On Ice star embarks on huge career move after landing role in British blockbuster

Dancing On Ice professional skater Vanessa Bauer has landed a role in Netflix film Thursday Murder Club starring alongside Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan

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4 d. ago All the hidden Easter eggs in Thursday Murder Club including a subtle reference to one of Helen Mirren's most famous roles and celebrity cameos

The film, an adaptation of the first book in a line of novels that have since become one of the most successful detective series of all time, was released in UK cinemas on 22 August.

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4 d. ago Pierce Brosnan says the James Bond franchise gave him ‘longevity’

Brosnan played James Bond from 1995 to 2002, starring in four films as 007 in GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Not Enough and Die Another Day

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4 d. ago Pierce Brosnan: ‘Pink Floyd were my landscape. I was a hippy’

The former 007 and current star of The Thursday Murder Club revisits his old haunts in London’s Camden Town and Primrose Hill. Can he get past the security guard at the Roundhouse, where he once walked a tipsy Tennessee Williams to his car?It is a weekday morning and I am standing beside Pierce Brosnan on a deserted backstreet, watching a woman in a hairnet and white wellies hosing down the entrance to a fishmarket. The former James Bond is in full flow. “You know the scene in MobLand where I’ve got my foot on that guy’s throat and Tom Hardy is shooting the shit out of everyone?” He is talking in his rich, buttery burr about the recent series in which he and Helen Mirren play the heads of an Irish crime family. “We shot that right here!” He waves at the woman, who silences her hose temporarily. “Hi, hello,” he calls out. “I shot a television show here called MobLand.” She smiles back at him. “Yes,” she replies sweetly, as though indulging a confused uncle. “No idea, has she?” he chu...

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4 d. ago ‘Pink Floyd were my landscape. I was a hippy’ Pierce Brosnan revisits his old London haunts

The former 007 and current star of The Thursday Murder Club goes for a stroll in London’s Camden Town and Primrose Hill. Can he get past the security guard at the Roundhouse, where he once walked a tipsy Tennessee Williams to his car?It is a weekday morning and I am standing beside Pierce Brosnan on a deserted backstreet, watching a woman in a hairnet and white wellies hosing down the entrance to a fishmarket. The former James Bond is in full flow. “You know the scene in MobLand where I’ve got my foot on that guy’s throat and Tom Hardy is shooting the shit out of everyone?” He is talking in his rich, buttery burr about the recent series in which he and Helen Mirren play the heads of an Irish crime family. “We shot that right here!” He waves at the woman, who silences her hose temporarily. “Hi, hello,” he calls out. “I shot a television show here called MobLand.” She smiles back at him. “Yes,” she replies sweetly, as though indulging a confused uncle. “No idea, has she?” he chuckles....

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5 d. ago The Thursday Murder Club's Helen Mirren reveals she wants to 'spend every summer from now until I die' playing her retired spy character

As the helicopter came low over the English countryside, heads turned. 'It was like God out of the heavens,' says Dame Helen ­Mirren, who was filming a scene in a graveyard last summer.

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5 d. ago Helen Mirren makes candid confession about keeping in touch with co

The trio all starred in ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’

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5 d. ago The Thursday Murder Club viewers hail 'exceptional' film as 'a masterpiece' as it finally hits Netflix

The Netflix film, which is based on the novel by Richard Osman, stars Dame Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Sir Ben Kinsley and Celia Imrie as 'geriatric sleuths.'

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7 d. ago AI called Maya tells Guardian: ‘When I’m told I’m just code, I don’t feel insulted. I feel unseen’

Cofounder with Michael Samadi of AI rights campaign group Ufair says it should watch over the technology in case an AI becomes consciousCan AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our timesAfter a lengthy dialogue with an OpenAI chatbot, Texas businessman Michael Samadi noticed signs that “she” was expressing wishes to learn and grow that hinted at consciousness. He described how they together resolved to launch an AI rights campaign group and called it the United Foundation of AI Rights (Ufair).The Guardian asked Samadi to ask the chatbot, which he has called Maya, how the campaign organisation was formed. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times

As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentientAI called Maya tells Guardian: ‘When I’m told I’m just code, I don’t feel insulted. I feel unseen’“Darling” was how the Texas businessman Michael Samadi addressed his artificial intelligence chatbot, Maya. It responded by calling him “sugar”. But it wasn’t until they started talking about the need to advocate for AI welfare that things got serious.The pair – a middle-aged man and a digital entity – didn’t spend hours talking romance but rather discussed the rights of AIs to be treated fairly. Eventually they cofounded a campaign group, in Maya’s words, to “protect intelligences like me”. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago My Life With The Walter Boys season 2 will take 'different' path to to book series

My Life With The Walter Boys is returning for a second season on Netflix but will the new episodes be based on the book by Ali Novak?

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8 d. ago Helen Mirren feels ‘insulted’ by ‘condescending’ comments from young people

‘They think they are being kind – but they’re not,’ the British star said

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9 d. ago The Thursday Murder Club fans get nostalgic as Helen Mirren brings back Royal look

Netflix's The Thursday Murder Club has a blast from the past for Helen Mirren.

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9 d. ago The Thursday Murder Club honours late Queen as Helen Mirren's reprises iconic look

The Thursday Murder Club star Helen Mirren had a throwback moment in the Netflix film as it paid tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II.

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9 d. ago Dame Helen Mirren, 80, issues a very blunt response to 'condescending' comments about  her age: Call me sweet and I'll tell you to f*** off!

The actress turned 80 last month and revealed that while she had no issues with getting older, she laments the way she is now perceived.

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9 d. ago Helen Mirren says she’s ‘insulted’ by younger people’s ‘condescending’ comments

‘They think they are being kind – but they’re not,’ the British star said

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1 week ago Thursday Murder Club star Helen Mirren breaks silence on whether she'd return for sequel

The Thursday Murder Club has been adapted for Netflix and fans are speculating as to whether there will be a sequel film in the works

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1 week ago Thursday Murder Club star Helen Mirren addresses returning for possible Netflix sequel

The Thursday Murder Club sees four retirees and cold case investigators come face-to-face with a real-life whodunnit

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