The Social Network (2010)

Jonah Hill made his name as a comedic actor, but the role that got away could have been his breakout dramatic appearance.

Mark Zuckerberg actually tried to stop The Social Network from being made years ago because he found it to be hurtful and untrue.

Whether it's a spontaneous bit of dancing or a more choreographed number, movie history is full of great dance moments. And as it happens, the internet is full of supercuts, but the above video and the sequel that followed rises above some of the rest, thanks in large part to great editing, as it looks like the creator really took the time to fit the dance clips together so they line up with the song.

Scott Rudin wants Jesse Eisenberg to star in a movie about true-life counterterrorism expert witness Evan Kohlmann. Known in FBI circles as “the Doogie Howser of Terrorism,” Kohlmann tracks jihadists via the Internet, and has established himself as an expert witness in several federal terrorism court cases

I choose to see it as the only logical result in a year that was crammed with great movies, all of them worthwhile for their own reasons and all of them deserving of their moment. Even films that didn't take home a single prize felt well-honored by tonight's ceremony

The BAFTA’s are, for all intents and purposes, the British Oscars. They were held tonight and, in the process of handing out their annual awards, they confirmed what everyone already knew about the Oscar race: There are only two contenders. The King’s Speech won nearly everything that the Orange British Academy Film Awards had to offer, and whatever it didn’t win The Social Network nabbed. The King’s Speech won seven awards in total.

You mean the ensuing SAG and DGA Awards caused nearly every Oscar pundit to set their hair on fire last weekend, while I was still trying to figure out how to get my snow boots back in my suitcase? Christ, OK

The 83rd Annual Academy Award nominations are being announced this morning. I’ll be here with you every step of the way as Academy President Tom Sherak and last year’s Best Supporting Actress

In only 11 days the nominations for this year's Academy Awards will be announced. Thanks to the ridiculous politics of the whole awards show, it's nearly impossible to determine precisely which

Of all the incredible scores that were produced for films last year, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' work on The Social Network ranks at the very top. Beautiful, dark, moody and with a hint of

So what are the films? And why does everyone seem to agree in such lockstep about what they'll be? Your answer is mostly in the precursor awards, ranging from critic's groups to the Writers and Screen Actors

There's a very simple reason why the best films of the year are released in November and December - the attention span of Oscar voters. By releasing an amazing film in September or October, you run the risk

For various reasons the WGA had disqualified many of the year's best scripts, including Toy Story 3, and The King's Speech, which left some serious gaps in the lineup

The guy who made what many believed to be the best movie of last year has picked Toy Story 3 as the best movie of this year. Toy Story 3 has already rounded up a lot of accolades

Maybe the rest of the movie doesn't really work or maybe you're in the middle of watching one of the year's best films. Whatever the movie, in that moment, for those seconds, you're carried away

Last year, as we here at Cinema Blend celebrated the end of the decade, I wrote an article titled “Film's 10 Best Music Moments In The Aughts.” The goal was simple: look at the all of the movies from the past ten

I'm not wimping out. This list has the heart of a lion. What you'll get here is my list, an ordered list of the movies I believe to be the ten best released in the United States of America this year

We'll put it this way: 2010 brought us one of the most inventive and visually lush summer blockbusters we've ever seen, and I couldn't find room for it on my top 10

Over the weekend a lot of critic's groups all around the country gathered to make their picks for the best films of the year, and there was more consensus than you might expect

The National Board of Review-- one of the first groups to announce awards for the year, and also one of the most mysterious and least influential-- has named The Social Network

Sorkin made a pretty convincing argument for both why he changed some of the facts of Zuckerberg's life-- including that he has had a girlfriend for years

The Social Network is a movie about the creation of Facebook, but what if the creation of The Social Network were told by Facebook? That’s the idea behind

In last week's column I pegged The Social Network as the new frontrunner in the Oscar race, and everything that's happened since has only further

If you saw The Social Network this weekend then you probably walked out talking about the scene-stealing Winklevoss twins, identical brothers. The special effects to create the doppelgangers

Despite rave reviews, incredibly positive audience feedback, and a marketing campaign so successful that the trailer has gone viral and spawned an unending string of parody videos

If you had the good sense to catch The Social Network this weekend then you know that Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg actually got his start by creating a site called Facemash.com

If you visit The Social Network's page on Facebook you'll find about 66,500 people like it. 66,493 of those are movie critics and all of them think The Social Network is the one of the best movies this year. Despite their

Judging by the Friday box office numbers (the film pulled in $8 million in its opening night), many of you have seen David Fincher's The Social Network this weekend. And why wouldn't you? The film has earned

The Social Network is in theaters across the United States and we want to know what you think of David Fincher’s Facebook movie. After you see it this weekend

Ever since the first feature trailer for The Social Network dropped in July, people have been making parody videos about it. But of the thousands that were made, they all had one common link: the choral version