The Social Network

Sky Movies Premiere/HD

Friday 9 September, 20.00

After being dumped by his girlfriend, embittered Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) creates a computer program that allows male students to rate the attractiveness of their female counterparts. With the help of best friend Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), Zuckerberg's ‘Facemash' is a hit, and, although it gets him in hot water with the prestigious university's top brass, wealthy twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss (both played by Armie Hammer) seek him out to design their ‘Harvard Connection' networking site. Nonplussed by the Winklevoss brothers, Zuckerberg goes to Saverin with an idea for his own site, ‘facebook', which the two quickly implement on campus. A runaway success with Harvard students, the lovelorn Zuckerberg is compelled to expand its reach when he finds that his ex, Erica Albright (Rooney Mara), hasn't heard of the site. As ‘facebook' begins to spread like wildfire throughout the US, the Winklevosses decide to sue the increasingly wealthy Zuckerberg, alleging that he stole their idea. Meanwhile, rifts begin to appear between Zuckerberg and Saverin, a problem further exacerbated when Zuckerberg brings smooth-talking Napster mogul Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) on board. Fincher's remarkable multi-award-winning drama might sound deathly dull on paper, but thanks to exceptional artistry across the board, it's quite possibly one of the finest films released in 2010.

Burke and Hare

Sky Movies Premiere/HD

Friday 16 September, 20.00

It's the early 19th century and Edinburgh has become the epicentre for medical research. Out on the streets, however, life is hard and scallywags William Burke (Simon Pegg) and William Hare (Andy Serkis) are struggling to make ends meet. As renowned medics Dr Knox (Tom Wilkinson) and Dr Monro (Tim Curry) battle to be the toast of the scientific community, the latter takes the lead when he gets a law passed that gives him the rights to all the corpses created by capital punishment. As Knox's research flounders, dastardly duo Burke and Hare hit upon the idea of supplying the morally dodgy medic with fresh cadavers, bumping off the good people of the Scottish capital and making a killing in the process. When the law gets wind of their ghoulish enterprise, however, there's grave consequences. The man behind Trading Places, The Blues Brothers and numerous other 80s' favourites, John Landis makes a return with this exceptionally entertaining black comedy!

Horror Horreur! The New Wave of French Shock Cinema

Horror

Every Saturday at 22.55

Horror Channel will be adding a touch of Gallic spice to its schedules in September with the premieres of three of the most important French genre releases of recent years. This is a vintage decade for French horror cinema - as a new wave of filmmakers such as Gasper Hoe, Alexandre Aja, Xavier Gens and Pascal Laugier hit upon a blend of ‘cynicism, menace, and grotesquerie'. in terms of controversy, urban grit and raw brutality, these Gallic masters of horror cannot be outshone. Includes Switchblade Romance, Martyrs and cannibal shocker, Frontier(s).

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Sky Movies Premiere/HD

Friday 2 September, 22.20

In 2008, 15 years after his imprisonment for insider trading, Wall Street shark Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) has rebuilt his life, even writing a book which predicts an impending financial crisis. His words of warning, however, are not heeded by traders at Keller Zabel Investments, least of all young Jake Moore (Shia LaBeouf), who remains naively bullish, until plummeting shares in KZI prompt the suicide of his managing director and mentor Louis Zabel (Frank Langella). Recently engaged to Gekko's estranged daughter Winnie (Carey Mulligan), Jake has other things on his mind. He tracks Gekko down to share the happy news, but, eager to reconnect with his daughter, the veteran moneyman is soon up to his old tricks. In return for paving the way to a reunion, Gekko offers to assist Jake in avenging Zabel's death, by bringing down rival trader Bretton James (Josh Brolin), the man who helped cause KZI to crumble. Jake accepts, but with global financial chaos just around the corner, he looks set to become deeply embroiled in a dangerously uncertain world. Though unlikely to hit a nerve in quite the same manner as 1987's Wall Street, Oliver Stone's Money Never Sleeps is nonetheless a timely sequel with plenty of ripe real-world events to draw on