A man (Kevin Spacey) wearing sunglasses appears in the middle of Grand Central Station. When he tries to help a woman being mugged, he encounters the New York City Police.
They query him – who he is, where he comes from and where his ticket and baggage are. He responds most curiously. He is Prot from [...]

Herk Harvey’s “Carnival of Souls” on peyote.
That’s an appropriate way to describe David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive.”
A phantasmagoria of a film, it’s like taking a spirit journey to a land of broken dreams, tragic lives and ominous figures. Not surprisingly, this landscape is Hollywood, Calif.
The film begins with a bunch of dancers doing the jitterbug, then [...]

Glen Morgan and James Wong’s “The One” contains hardly any originality – it’s “Highlander” meets “Timecop” – however, it does sport a few martial arts sequences that will evoke spontaneous gasps of amazement. (If “Matrix Reloaded” expounds on these, I’ll be in a bliss coma for months.)
While many of us believe we live in a [...]