Dexter

Trailers are designed to stir up excitement, the amuse-bouche that whets your appetite for the three-course meal. Occasionally, the oldest marketing trick in the book backfires. When Sony dropped a sneak peek at Madame Web, the newest addition to the company’s roster of Spider-Man–related films and another of their corporate crossovers with the good folks at Marvel Studios, the reaction was… not exactly what they hoped for. The same fans they were hoping to get riled up about a batch of fresh Spidey-adjacent characters…

Is it true Alan Rickman was your best man? Bauhaus66It is. He was responsible for my wife and me meeting. I worked with Alan when I was 14 and he convinced my now-wife to cast me in Impresario of Smyrna at the Old Red Lion theatre pub in London, about 28 years ago. It seemed only logical that I asked him to be my best man. He took me to Ireland the night before the wedding to the premiere of a Pat O’Connell film – I forget which one – and we made it back in time for the wedding the next day.Which line from Lock Stock gets…

Screenshot: Gizmodo / TwitterSince the beginning of Elon Musk’s reign at Twitter, he’s threatened to remove the legacy verification—signified by a white check in a blue circle beside the account name—that predated his tenure. Musk even set April 1st as the date for the purge, which came and went without any changes, either because of ineptitude or a half-effort April Fools joke. But on April 20th—4/20, lol, ugh—he actually did it.Nearly all of the estimated 407k legacy verified Twitter accounts lost their check marks. The…

If you hear the name Dexter Fletcher, I bet three things will come to mind. 1) Press Gang, where Fletcher appeared as rebellious teenager Spike Thomson in late 80s/early 90s children’s TV drama, 2) Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, in which Fletcher starred in Guy Ritchie’s directing debut in 1998, and 3) GamesMaster, where Fletcher temporarily took over the role of host in the third series of iconic 90s Channel 4 videogame show, before handing the reigns back to Dominik Diamond.But he’s gone on to do so much more as…

Screenshot: LucasfilmJason Bateman will direct Bad Robot’s new supernatural western, The Pinkerton. Get a new look at Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. The Dexter revival is dead, long live... young Dexter? Plus, what’s coming on Quantum Leap. Spoilers, away!The PinkertonDeadline reports Jason Bateman is attached to direct The Pinkerton, a “supernatural revenge-western hybrid” at Bad Robot from 10 Cloverfield Lane writerDaniel Casey. Details on the plot are not available at this time. Danny and the…

Julian Sands' car discovered as search for missing actor continuesGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJulian Sands, the British star of films such as A Room With a View and Arachnophobia, has been identified as the hiker who has been missing in a California mountain range since last week.Sands, 65, has been missing in the Mount Baldy area since Friday 13 January, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s…

| Fox Feature Syndicate publisher Victor Fox had high hopes for Dick Briefer's Rex Dexter of Mars from early on.  A few months after his debut in Mystery Men Comics #1, Rex was part of Fox's push via the Mitchell J. Hamilburg Agency to get Fox properties into film, radio, merchandise, and syndicated newspaper strips.  While most of that didn't happen for Rex or most of the rest of the Fox Feature line for that matter, he did briefly get a newspaper daily and Sunday by Briefer as well.  Briefer's approach to this solar…