COMING ATTRACTIONS
New on DVD, from left: Nicolas Cage's character tries to prevent future disasters in "Knowing"; Chris Evans, left, and Dakota Fanning star in the sci-fi thriller "Push"; Gary Oldman and Odette Yustman star in the supernatural thriller "The Unborn."
(Photos, From Left: By Vince Valitutti -- Summit Entertainment Via Associated Press; By Hirotake Okazaki; By Peter Iovino/rogue Pictures)
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New DVDs you can watch this weekend:
MARQUEE NAMES
-- Knowing (PG-13) Nicolas Cage plays a professor who comes across an old list of numbers that seems to have predicted past major disasters, and a few that haven't happened yet. His crusade to prevent the apocalypse begins. Post critic Michael O'Sullivan said that the film is moderately satisfying in a creepy way but that "the narrative corner into which this movie . . . paints itself is a simultaneously silly and morbidly depressing one." Extras include director commentary and a making-of featurette. Also on Blu-ray.
-- Push (PG-13) The plot of this sci-fi thriller about expatriates with paranormal powers is complex, but according to The Post's Dan Zak, "the execution is fresh, earnest and inoffensive," helped along by "a hip soundtrack and the unlikely-but-effective teaming of 27-year-old Chris Evans and 14-year-old Dakota Fanning." Extras include deleted scenes and commentary by Evans, Fanning and director Paul McGuigan. Also on Blu-ray.
-- The Unborn (PG-13 and unrated versions) A teen girl (Odette Yustman) seeks the truth about her past after having visions of a boy who may have something to do with her dead mother. The movie has great special effects, said The Post's Mike Mayo, but suffers from a "clunky, cliched" script. Extras include deleted scenes. Also on Blu-ray.
OTHERS OF NOTE
-- A Day in the Life (R) Hip-hop artist Sticky Fingaz directed and stars in this urban crime drama set entirely to a rap narrative. Also starring Omar Epps and Mekhi Phifer.
-- Five Fingers (R) This heavy-handed thriller screened at film festivals but was never released in U.S. theaters. But it might appeal to fans of Ryan Phillippe, who plays a mild-mannered man on a philanthropic mission to Morocco, and Laurence Fishburne, the head of a terrorist group that kidnaps him.
-- Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes (Unrated) This documentary follows Keillor across the country as he produces his radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion."
-- Night Train (R) A direct-to-DVD release starring Danny Glover, Leelee Sobieski and Steve Zahn as strangers on a train drawn into a mystery.
TV to DVD
-- Callan: Set 1 A British spy series that ran from 1967 to 1972, starring Edward Woodward as an assassin for a secret intelligence agency.
-- Kath and Kim: Season 1
-- Matlock: The Third Season
-- Moon Machines This six-part Science Channel documentary focuses on the engineers behind the Apollo program.
-- Murder, She Wrote: The Complete 10th Season Twenty-one episodes, one of which features Mickey Rooney as a horse trainer who ends up dead.
-- Mystery Science Theater 3000: XV
-- Petticoat Junction: The Official Second Season
-- Reno 911: The Complete Sixth Season -- Uncensored
-- Third Watch: The Complete Second Season
COMING ATTRACTIONS
Notable DVDs being released Tuesday include:
-- The Edge of Love (Unrated)
-- The Haunting in Connecticut (PG-13)
-- Amy Hitt
