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The Social Network

October 2023

  • composite image of Seven, Fight Club, The Social Network, Zodiac and Gone Girl

    From Seven to Gone Girl: writers on their favourite David Fincher movie

    As his chilly new Netflix thriller The Killer is released, Guardian writers look back on their top picks by the director

March 2022

  • Aaron Sorkin at the Gielgud theatre, London, March 2022.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Aaron Sorkin: ‘Screenwriters write about people who are cooler than we are’

    The American writer known for The West Wing, Moneyball and The Social Network on adapting To Kill a Mockingbird for the stage in the 21st century

May 2020

  • Liked and shared … Quentin Tarantino has named Facebook drama The Social Network as his favourite 2010s film.

    Quentin Tarantino: The Social Network is 'hands down' the best film of 2010s

    After naming Dunkirk runner-up in January, the director has revealed his top pick from the last decade as David Fincher’s Facebook drama, which ‘crushes all the competition’

March 2020

  • Oh no you don’t! Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter.

    Film blog
    From Fight Club to Brief Encounter: how self-isolation would change classic films

    It’s now difficult to watch movies without worrying about the two-metre rule – here are the retrospective plot changes required to mean old movies pass muster

September 2019

  • From left: Moonlight, The Handmaiden, There Will Be Blood, Under the Skin

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best films of the 21st century

    Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

October 2018

  • Bad jeans: Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake

    Sexy hardback: what will the Justin Timberlake autobiography be like?

    With the pop star’s new book, Hindsight & All the Things I Can’t See in Front of Me, on its way, here are some (imagined) extracts

January 2017

  • Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc in The Founder.

    Why a film celebrating McDonald's is the perfect start for Trump cinema

    The Founder, about the man who built McDonald’s, is a fitting start to the new era. But Hollywood’s love affair with Trump’s kind of anarcho-capitalism began long ago

November 2016

  • In this image released by Paramount Pictures, David Oyelowo portrays Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a scene from "Selma," a film based on the slain civil rights leader. The 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights marches in Selma and the hit movie that tells the story are expected to bring thousands of visitors to this  Alabama city. Visitors can still walk across the bridge where voting rights marchers were beaten in 1965 and visit the churches where they organized the protests. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Atsushi Nishijima)

    Selma is 100% historically accurate but Imitation Game just 41.4%, says study

    A scene-by-scene analysis of recent Oscar contenders by data site Information is Beautiful gives full marks for historical accuracy to Martin Luther King biopic

June 2016

  • Photograph: Kate Peters for the Guardian

    Jesse Eisenberg: ‘Do you look at me and think, God! What an indulgent prick?’

    He writes, he acts – but the star of The Social Network isn’t comfortable with the fame that followed. How will he handle a gang of fans in a London park?

February 2016

  • Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best Oscars snubs

    Ahead of this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, we look at the most infamous Oscars oversights

November 2015

  • Steve Jobs film still
John Steen, Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslett

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Steve Jobs review – decoding a complex character

  • Aaron Sorkin

    Aaron Sorkin on the cult of Steve Jobs: ‘I hadn't seen anything like it since John Lennon was killed’

August 2015

  • Supporting images for The Program

    The great poster riddle: why the Lance Armstrong movie promo looks familiar

    When inspired movie-poster art like The Social Network is created, copycats like The Program, The Kings speech and many others inevitably follow

January 2015

  • social network screengrab

    The good, the bad and the ugly: technology immortalised in film

    From the story of Facebook’s beginnings and the dangers of selfies, to action-packed hacking narratives and robot intelligence, we explore technology imagined on the big screen

November 2014

  • All hands on deck … Molly Bloom in 2014.

    Stake and chips: Aaron Sorkin to write movie about 'poker princess' Molly Bloom

  • Mark Zuckerberg

    Social Network ‘made up stuff that was hurtful’, says Mark Zuckerberg

October 2014

  • Furry vengeance … Leonardo DiCaprio will play a 19th-century trapper in revenge drama The Revenant.

    iWon't play Steve Jobs: Leonardo DiCaprio drops out of Jobs biopic

  • Gone Girl with Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Gone Girl review – David Fincher thrills with portrait of love gone wrong

September 2014

  • David Fincher

    David Fincher on Gone Girl: ‘Bad things happen in this movie…’

  • Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark silent

    Steven Soderbergh recuts Raiders of the Lost Ark as a silent movie

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