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Halfway through “Hocus Pocus 2,” Bette Midler shouts off a set of direct commands. “Clear the altar, all of you! Clear my stage!” she says, sending everyone around her scurrying.

By one of those coincidences that leads me to suspect witchcraft — or perhaps just the more banal dark magic of social media — this week has renewed some heated online chatter about the dubious cultural legacies of two very different movies. One of them is James Cameron’s 3-D wonderment…

Sarah Jessica Parker and Hannah Waddingham also star in a Halloween kids film that can’t hold candle to the charmingly boisterous original

Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy have reprised their roles for the sequel

The movie has since built up a reputation into something of a cult classic with a sequel Hocus Pocus 2 launching today

DETROIT — Sam Richardson has been climbing Hollywood's ladder for 10 years, but he knew he'd reached a new career plateau when people started dressing up as his characters for Halloween.

Andrew Scott and Bella Ramsey star in Lena Dunham’s bracing look at life in medieval England, while the 90s cult classic gets the original Sanderson Sisters back together in time for Halloween

While fans are excited, not everyone is impressed with the new flick with the New York Post labelling it "lousy, lame millenial nostalgia bait."

Bette Midler returns with her child-killing sisters in a disappointingly flat follow-up that tries too hard to soften the villains

The witchly Sanderson sisters are summoned by some interesting teens in fun streaming movie.

So many different kinds of not-great or even not-good movies lay siege to our affections, for reasons to do with why people love movies in the first place. Maybe the star is really cute. Maybe we just enjoy the people on the screen, even if the script’s lousy and the…