Twilight alumnus Taylor Lautner makes his debut as a leading man in a film tailor-made for him. Abduction puts Lautner in motion and never goes wrong as long as he remains in motion.

Dolphin Tale turns out to tell an interestingly crowded story. It’s rudimentary and even a little clumsy in its filmmaking technique, but there’s some narrative ambition, at least, in its inventions built upon the real-life rescue of Winter, who was no stranger to adversity and therefore destined for the movies.

It doesn’t take long for Alex Cox, University of Colorado Boulder assistant professor and director of such cult classics as 'Repo Man,' 'Sid & Nancy,' 'Walker' and 'The Highway Patrolman,' to show his famous independent streak. Just minutes into the conversation, he’s already articulating his take on Terrence Malick’s widely praised 2011 film, 'The Tree of Life.'

Thwarted by the same awkward timing that zonked Confessions of a Shopaholic two years ago, just when shopaholics began to seem extra-heinous, the film version of I Don’t Know How She Does It doesn’t know how to do what I think it’s trying to do.

Drive begins extremely well and ends in a muddle of ultra-violence, hypocrisy and stylistic preening, which won’t be any sort of deterrent for those who like its looks.

From the opening shots of Solitaire, the new ski film from Sweetgrass Productions, you know you’re in for something different. The movie begins with a grizzled Argentine actor, Tata Cabral, sitting by a fire, speaking lines inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

One of the most powerful — and frightening — film themes is global pandemics. Diseases already seem to spread without us fully understanding or being able to control them, and rapidly evol

Don´t be scared. It’s just a film festival. Yes, more than a third of the movies at this year’s Moondance Film Festival are foreign. Yes, many of the films at the Boulder event, happening Sept. 16 to Sept. 18 on the CU campus, sound deadly serious: The Way of Justice, Oil Factor, The Road Home, Tales of Woe. No, you can’t crack open a box of Junior Mints and start texting your friends. But it’s not meant to be scary.

The feverish mixed martial arts infomercial Warrior opens up so many cans of emotional whup-ass that after a while you think: Enough! It’s whupped! It’s whupped! And yet the tears will flow by the gallon.

A really good documentary isn’t about whatever it looks like it’s about. It’s about people.I don’t mean nature docs, which are actually about nature. I mean films like Ready, S