Knowing

A time capsule containing a cryptic message about the coming apocalypse sends a concerned father on a race to prevent the horrific events from unfolding as predicted in this sci-fi thriller directed by Alex Proyas (Dark City) and starring Nicolas Cage. 1958: As the dedication ceremony for a newly ...more

It's the end of the world as he knows it, and Nicolas Cage's John Koestler doesn't feel fine. In one of the film's earliest scenes, Cage's astrophysics professor is lecturing his students at MIT and they inquire as to what he thinks about destiny and the natural order of things. He deadpans, "Shit just happens." And that it does in the film. Knowing is this year's ultimate hyphenate film. It's part sci-fi disaster epic, part apocalyptic adventure, and part metaphysical meditation on the ...more