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Devil

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" Peter 5:8 Starring Chris Messina and Logan Marshall-Green, "Devil" is a new horror/thriller from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan that takes place in modern day Philadelphia. A group of seemingly random people gets trapped in an elevator in a tall building.  Detective Bowden is called to a scene at the same building but for a suicide, and when he is informed of the elevator getting stuck and strange events taking place, he drops the case to help the stranded elevator passengers.  As all the workers and security people in the building are freaking out, they begin to realize that the devil is among them, but the question, who is it?  I thought the story line is a little weird.  According to a story the narrator tells at the very beginning of the movie, the devil may arise on earth to take some people before they meet him in hell and that the first s...

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Starring Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter, and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evil: Afterlife is a somewhat scary action thriller about a zombie dominated planet during present times. It's the fourth movie in the franchise. Alice (Jovovich) is the former head of security at the Umbrella Corporation, the company that created the T-Virus that accidentally escaped and turned everybody into zombies. She travels to Alaska to what she thinks is a small town called Arcadia, where there is supposedly a colony of survivors that are infection free. She is drawn by transmissions saying that they offer safety and security, food and shelter. When she arrives, nothing is there, but she picks up Claire Redfield (Larter) and travels to what once was Los Angeles where there is another colony of four survivors living atop a prison rooftop and surrounded by zombies. They find that the Arcadia is actually a ship just offshore. Can they make it to the ship? Milla Jovovich plays a very act...