30 Seconds To Mars

One of the most critically acclaimed rock bands of recent years is 30 Seconds to Mars, an American band from California who have been together since 1998. Although in recent years they have been getting more airplay, selling more records and playing more gigs, but in recent interviews the band have indicated that after their current tour they will be taking a break, and this could be anything up to 10 years away from music.

30 Seconds to Mars was founded in 1998 by Jared Leto, who also works as an actor. The band also features his brother Shannon as a drummer. Leto has said several times that music is what he was always really interested in and that acting was something he only did to fill in the time. For a lot of people though he is better known as an actor due to his roles in TV series My So Called Life and movies such as American Psycho, Fight Club and the Thin Red Line. During the time when Jared Leto was building up his acting career, he was also developing his music career and working to raise the profile of 30 Seconds to Mars, taking the group from a small family hobby band into a more mainstream rock band with a contract with a major record label. Jared Leto also tries to keep his acting and his music completely separate. He does not use his Hollywood fame to promote the band, and the fact that he is a well-known actor does not feature in any of the band's marketing material.

The Devil Inside

The horror genre has its fair share of influences, taken from now relatively dated 80's horror effects, and the slightly more effective 90's slasher horror arena. Those films were influenced by such horror gems as the originals Halloween and The Exorcist. The Exorcist in particular remains at the pinnacle of the "devil" genre, films that revolve around the concept of demon possession. The devil inside holds a few key influences from a few key subgenres of horror, but never really gets any of them right as it swings from one cheesy scare tactic to contrived plot twist after another.

The film follows Isabella, as her intrigue for the supernatural brings her to Rome and to an insane asylum. After her curiosity simply explodes, she collects a rag tag team of priests and goes on an adventure to the depths of boringness to confirm her suspicions that it may have been the act of demon possession that drew her mother to murder three people decades before the film takes place.

This foundation serves as a formidable plot line that begins as an exploration into the psychological realm of the supernatural vs. the natural. The tonal shift of the film brings things to a bombastic lightning pace, where characters you didn't really care about in the first place go through horrific turn of events that seem forced and downright silly.