Featured Film: KNOWING

Knowing - is a 2009 American science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage. The project was originally attached to a number of directors under Columbia Pictures, but it was placed in turnaround and eventually picked up by Escape Artists. Production was financially backed by Summit Entertainment. Knowing was filmed in Docklands Studios Melbourne, Australia, using various locations to represent the film's Boston-area setting. The film was released on 20 March 2009, in the United States. The DVD and Blu-ray media were released on July 7, 2009.

In 1959, Lucinda Embry stands in her school's playground staring at the sun, hearing whispers. The school makes a time capsule to be opened fifty years later. Lucinda writes a page of seemingly random numbers. She is later found in a closet, scratching the numbers into the door. In 2009, Jonathan Koestler, a widower and professor of astrophysics at MIT, discusses life on other planets with his son, Caleb. This leads to a discussion of where the boy's dead mother is. Caleb knows sign language and often hears confusing noises. Caleb attends the school that Lucinda attended; when the time capsule is opened Caleb receives her page of numbers. He sees a mysterious stranger in the nearby trees and hears whispers. Jonathan sees the numbers, notices the sequence 911012996 and realizes it is a reference to the date and number of deaths from the September 11th attacks (9/11/01/2996). Jonathan finds similar information based on other numbers on Caleb's sheet. The last three dates on the page are in the near future. There are numbers between the dates that he cannot reconcile. Jonathan learns that Lucinda recently died from a drug overdose. John's sister encourages him to reconcile with their father. Caleb receives more visits from mysterious strangers who give him a small smooth stone, and is shown images of the world on fire. On his way to pick up Caleb from school, Jonathan witnesses an airplane crash. It is the date that the numbers predicted for the next disaster; the unexplained numbers are the locations of the events.

Jonathan finds Lucinda's daughter, Diana, and her daughter Abby, but scares them away when he reveals his interest in Lucinda. Jonathan pinpoints the next disaster to Worth Street in lower Manhattan. With news of terror-threats, Jonathan suspects the next cataclysm will be a terror attack. He spots a suspicious man in a subway station and chases him onto a stopped train. Cornered, the man is found to only be carrying shoplifted video games. At that same moment an approaching train derails, smashing into the station and destroying much of Jonathan's train. Diana tells Jonathan that the next date is the day her mother told her she would die, October 19. Lucinda heard voices whispering horrible things and moved to the woods to "get ready". The two search Lucinda's mobile home. Diana thinks the last number is not "33" but "EE" written backwards. They find pictures of the disasters she predicted and a copy of Matthäus Merian's engraving of Ezekiel's "chariot vision". Finding a pile of small smooth stones near Lucinda's bed, John flips it over to find the underside covered with the words, "Everyone Else", representing a cataclysm that no one will escape. While John and Diana are inside the Strangers appear around the car carrying the children. John drives them away only to hear from Abby that the "whisper people" want her and Caleb to go with them. John chases one of the strangers into the woods and confronts him in a clearing. The stranger opens his mouth, releasing a roar and stream of light before he disappears. Abby has colored in the picture of the "Likeness of a Man" in the engraving and says it is the sun. John has a sudden revelation and rushes them to the MIT observatory, where he discovers that a massive solar flare will soon reach Earth; the final disaster.