Review: The Social Network

In autumn 2003, after being dumped by his girlfriend, Harvard student and computer whizz kid Mark Zuckerberg had an idea. This idea was to create a version of hotornot.com solely focused on students at the university. The site was quickly shut down, but not before it had received 250,000 hits in just a few hours. Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss hear of Zuckerberg’s technical know how and invite him to help them create an online community exclusively for Harvard students – the Harvard Connection. Refining the Winklevoss twins’ initial idea, Zuckerberg creates The Facebook, an immediate success. This film tells the story of the early years of Facebook and the accusations Zuckerberg faced about intellectual property theft.

Seán’s Movie Music Magorium: Alien3

This is the first of Seán Ferrick’s look at music scores from film and TV. In this series, Seán is going to look at his favourite soundtracks and scores from a range of different movie genres and television shows. Please make him feel welcome to the Culch.ie fold. - Darren Elliot Goldenthal’s score for Alien3 exists among controversy. The film itself suffered behind the scenes from day one and therefore the fact that a score so haunting, so powerful and so evocative belongs to a movie that really should never have been made is nothing short of amazing. Let me begin by saying – Alien3 is a great film. I use this term because it seemed to be a case that, where anything could go wrong, it did on this film. Featuring three directors, several heavily controlled script re-writes and a cast that all but deny the film’s existence, this … There’s more