8 h. ago Netflix's The Woman in Cabin 10 sees Keira Knightley shine in tepid yacht thriller

The Woman in Cabin 10 sees Keira Knightley return to Netflix

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8 h. ago The Woman in Cabin 10 review: Keira Knightley is the best thing about this run

Keira Knightley leads this Netflix murder mystery on board a luxury vessel

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8 h. ago The Woman in Cabin 10 review – Keira Knightley thriller is Agatha Christie for people with limited attention spans

This murder mystery is just a lazy excuse for nice interiors, nice clothes, cheap thrills, and attractive people

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3 d. ago The one change that worked: I was lost in the infinite scroll – until a small ritual renewed my love of reading

My ability to concentrate diminished as I spent more time on my phone. So I started to log and learn every new word I came across, and felt my brain begin to flexAs a child I devoured books until my eyes blurred. When my GCSEs came around, I exercised the stamina of a monk, revising for hours without pause. But in recent years, I’ve watched that capacity for intense concentration dissolve into infinite scrolling on my phone. My attention span now contracts like a slug at the touch of a finger. Reading for pleasure feels less like nourishment and more like endurance training. And for someone who writes for a living, this is a professional hazard as well as something that made me sad. I wanted to restore that mental elasticity, to halt the brain rot.So, about a year ago, I made a small vow: every time I came across a word I didn’t know – whether in a novel, an article, or an overheard conversation – I would look it up and write it down. Nothing elaborate, no leather-bound journal or f...

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1 week ago Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue review – nothing has given me greater joy this year

Packed with Agatha Christie-meets-Lost shenanigans, this ludicrous crime drama from Anthony Horowitz is a most perfect piece of televisual trash. Treasure it! We open, bright red Pulp Fiction-y letters tell us, on “Day Nine”. Not “Day One”! Intrigued? You betcha! We are in Los Tríos, Mexico – watching a woman watch the Mexican military police await delivery of nine bodies, to store in an isolated facility’s morgue. Which is fortuitous, because this is the beginning of a new thriller by Anthony Horowitz, called Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue (the title fits brilliantly). The series was originally developed for the short-form platform Quibi; but I thank whoever realised that this perfect piece of trash deserved a larger canvas and broader distribution, and gave it 45 minutes per episode (and, ultimately, to the BBC).I don’t know that anything has given me greater or purer joy this year. Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue is unabashed nonsense, without a trace of cynicism or guile in a w...

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2 w. ago Keira Knightley exudes elegance in floral gown with a quirky lace ruff as she gleefully greets her glam co

Keira, 40, dazzled in a vintage-inspired olive green gown, covered in  embroidered flowers, intricate beading and sparkling diamond details.

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3 w. ago This plot trick is ruining modern television, and we’re to blame

As ‘Hostage’, ‘Coldwater’ and ‘The Guest’ all arrive within weeks of each other, Phil Harrison asks: are our low attention spans slowly destroying TV?

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3 w. ago AI could never replace my authors. But, without regulation, it will ruin publishing as we know it | Jonny Geller

Basic principles need to be enshrined to protect the sacred craft of storytelling from this automated onslaughtJonny Geller is a literary agent and CEO of The Curtis Brown GroupThe single biggest threat to the livelihood of authors and, by extension, to our culture, is not short attention spans. It is AI.The UK publishing industry – worth more than £11bn, part of the £126bn that our creative industries generate for the British economy – has sat by while big tech has “swept” copyrighted material from the internet in order to train their models. Recently, the AI startup Anthropic settled a $1.5bn copyright case over this issue, but the ship has undeniably left the harbour and big tech is sailing off with the goods.Jonny Geller is CEO of The Curtis Brown Group Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Netflix teases new murder mystery adapted from novel hailed 'Agatha Christie at her best'

The streaming giant is set to release a new murder mystery series based on one of Agatha Christie's novels

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3 w. ago Richard Attenborough’s copy of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap up for sale

Lord Attenborough was the first person to play the role of Detective Sergeant Trotter in the murder mystery play.

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