Knowing]]> Transformers 2. Nicolas Cage is an MIT prof who becomes obsessed with a sheet of numbers from 1959. Do they hint that the world is going to end? Cage's rationalism is shaken enough for him to track down the would-be Nostradamus who put the code in a time capsule. The Angel of Death has his own designs. Directed by Alex Proyas, who helmed the cult film Dark City.
Extras: Proyas provides an in-depth, screen-specific commentary. There are also featurettes on the production and apocalyptic angst.
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Extras: Commentary track with Evans, Fanning and director Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin). Four deleted scenes with optional commentary. A featurette on real-life psychic warfare.
Click here for more clips of this week's releases!]]> The Unborn]]> Odette Yustman has barely been onscreen for a second when she's seeing creepy dogs, creepy children, and digging up a demon fetus in the snow. The shocks come quick and fast for a while, before settling into a Jewish spin on The Exorcist. The dybbuk intending to inhabit Yustman's body, which looks good in underwear, has beef stretching all the way back to the Holocaust. Why it would trouble someone so devoid of any kind of personality, however, is never explained.
Extras: The film comes with an unspectacular unrated cut and ho-hum deleted scenes.
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