Movie review: Devil

Starring: Chris Messina, Bojana Novakovic, Bokeem Woodbine, Jenny O’Hara, Geoffrey Arend, Logan Marshall-Green, and Jacob VargasDirected by: John Erick DowdleScreenplay by: Brian NelsonStory by: M Night ShyamalanThe first release in M Night Shyamalan’s The Night Chronicles series, Devil is a supernatural thriller that follows the story of five strangers (Bojana Novakovic, Bokeem Woodbine, Jenny O

'Mars Needs Moms' needs stronger story

LOS ANGELES: Robert Zemeckis' performance capture system, which turns life-action into animation, gets quite a workout in Disney's "Mars Needs Moms," which opens on Friday.Its characters, both human and Martian, tumble through space, slide down chutes, chase along corridors that turn every which way and dance around mountains and into caverns created out of huge mounds of trash. The process has

'Red Riding Hood' inspires dread

LOS ANGELES: A film of grimm banality, "Red Riding Hood" puts a bloodthirsty "Twilight" spin on a fairy tale already possessed of an unusually macabre climax.As it thuds along from one wolf attack to the next, Catherine Hardwicke's first film since taking leave of Bella and her toothy friends adamantly refuses to provide any wit, humor or fun, concerning itself mostly with the heroine's taxing