Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

In the 1940s, when a movie began with the hypnotic blend of rain, shadows, light and menace that opens “Kalifornia,” moviegoers would have probably figured they were in the hands of a true stylist.

Boxing Helena and Kalifornia opened last week without being pre-screened. Actually, a lot of movies in this grab bag of an early-fall season are being tossed casually into the marketplace without ...