It’s easy, even understandable, to dismiss things we find uninteresting, distasteful or downright stupid. I do that often enough in this column, so let me be clear: I like fantasy fiction. I grew up with it. I read it. I play games based on the genre. I believe J.R.R. Tolkien and Terry Pratchett and Orson Scott Card and Michael Moorcock and Dan Abnett Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson should have their own hall of fame.

Producer-turned-director Lee Daniels turned his adaptation of the 1996 novel by Sapphire into a film with help from Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry.

The buzz is all about the film "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push" by Sapphire," that opens Friday.

The team at Sherwood Pictures doesn't work like other filmmakers. They never have. After the surprising success of "Fireproof" -- the third film for the group comprised of pastors and staff at the Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga. -- most film companies would have rushed back into production to maximize their profits. At Sherwood they stopped and prayed.

Wearing all black from tip to toe, “Twilight” actor Kellan Lutz sat in a meeting room at the Ritz-Carlton in Boston dressed more like Johnny Cash than the vampire Emmett Cullen, whom he plays in the beyond-popular movie series. Just as Lutz’s character helps Bella in the movies, the 24-year-old actor was quick to lend a hand when a technically inept reporter couldn’t work her tape recorder. A push of a button, a flip of a switch and – voila – it works.

Actress Sandra Bullock portrays Leigh Anne Tuohy, one of the two main characters in the new film “The Blind Side,” the true story of Michael Oher, a poor, homeless, underachieving high school kid she pulls off the street and invites to become part of her family.

“(Untitled)” is a subtle comedy about the state of contemporary art.

Disaster flick “2012” entertains in a so-bad-it’s-good way, with laughably bad dialogue, preposterous characters and situations, and special effects guaranteed to blow your mind.

The screams were loud enough to wake the undead. Several hundred "Twilight" fans poured into the Natick Collection last night to meet Kellan Lutz, who plays vampire Emmett Cullen in the popular book and film series. The second movie installment, "New Moon," opens Nov. 20.

The story of DJs broadcasting rock 'n roll during the 60s from a boat off the coast of England, because the BBC refused to, amounts to not much more than a boatload of characters who  you just can't manage to care about.