Cast of the decade?

One of the most absorbing films of modern cinema was released this summer, filled with more British talent than the 1966 World Cup winning team and a screenplay that does the original proud. I am of course talking about Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Set in the 1970s the film focusses on the British Secret Service and their search within themselves for a mole. In order to smoke him out, the top dog brings in retired agent George Smiley, played by Gary Oldman.

Smiley knows the mole is one of four men: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, or Spy; his mission is to find out just who it is.

Matthew McConaughey and the back seat of his car.

Matthew McConaughey was recently in the film: The Lincoln Lawyer, and I didn’t think he was too bad considering when I see him in movies I usually end up feeling nauseated and angry at the sheer implausibility of rom-coms.

But this one isn’t a rom-com! Hooray! No, it isn’t a historical drama based on Abraham Lincoln’s little-known career in the justice system, I somehow don’t think McConaughey could quite pull off the sideburns. Instead he plays a prosecutor who finds himself with the wrong kind of client: a murderer! Who’d have thought a prosecutor’s client could be a murderer. I know, it’s out there.

Could be interesting.

Well I did it, I went back to the cinema. The film? The Social Network, the story about the founding of Facebook. I didn’t really think much to this movie back when I saw the trailer a while ago, it didn’t seem too interesting. But I can confirm that I was so wrong. So painfully wrong. There… I said it.

It’s a good movie, mainly because the story is interesting more than anything else. Now, I went to see this movie because recently I read the book The Accidental Millionaires by Ben Mezrich, and I found it to be an amazing insight into some of their lives.

The story focuses on Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and those around him, namely his best friend Eduardo Saverin, Napster creator Sean Parker, and twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss. From what I can gather, Mezrich compiled the story using interviews he did with several sources, with his closest source being Eduardo Saverin. He states early on that he never spoke to Zuckerberg once, even though he persistently attempted to contact him.