“Knowing is a sci-fi film where you’re going to get the spectacle and the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition.” So says Nicolas Cage, of his thriller which opens today. Cage plays a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future and sets out to prevent them from coming true.
Cage discusses the film, fatherhood, acting as anger management, and what the future may hold for himself and his family, after the jump.
This first volume of Northlanders, written by Brian Wood (DMZ) with art by David Gianfelice, is your archetypal prodigal-versus-usurper story, set in a remote Viking settlement in the 10th century. The prodigal in question is Sven, exiled from the Orkney islands as a teen, who leaves his successful career in glorious Constantinople to claim his birthright at the remote rump end of Europe. This is a good solid story, filled with bitterness and decapitations, and pleasantly lacking in horned helmets and magical bashing weapons.
Northlanders is also a prime example of how modern North American graphic novels now fill a certain cultural niche in a way they haven’t for a long time. (More about that after the jump).
