Even Hocus Pocus star Vinessa Shaw still loves the film.
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Hocus Pocus is the undisputed queen of Halloween movies, okay?
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We have the next best thing — minus the hocus pocus.
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" He also played the dad in Halloween classic "Hocus Pocus.
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"Hocus Pocus" later found fans through Halloween marathons on TV.
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This is definitely true of the grown-ups in Hocus Pocus.
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Hocus Pocus is an iconic film that can never be replicated.
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I go back and forth between Hocus Pocus and Slaughterhouse Five.
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This week, the WWHL stork delivered the gift of Hocus Pocus.
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On Thursday, Deadline announced that Hocus Pocus is getting a remake.
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Hocus Pocus is one of the most beloved classic movies about witches.
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As an adult, I'm officially in on the joke of Hocus Pocus.
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Bette Midler wasn't concerned with the negative reviews Hocus Pocus initially received.
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It all leads up to a Hocus Pocus marathon on Oct. 31.
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The same goes for the three sisters of 1993's Hocus Pocus.
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We settle in to watch Hocus Pocus because how could we not?
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Look no further than some of the best quotes from Hocus Pocus.
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But Hocus Pocus mostly keeps its scares gentle, tempering them with broad comedy.
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Plaintiffs' lawyers in the Baker case attempted a bit of procedural hocus pocus.
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Here's everything you need to know about each: First up is Hocus Pocus.
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The resemblance between Valerie Vixen here and Hocus Pocus' Winifred Sanderson is uncanny.
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I love anything from Hocus Pocus to Witches of Eastwick to The Witch.
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Hoodie-weather temperatures, awe-inspiring foliage, Hocus Pocus marathons … the list goes on.
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The Sanderson sisters are back and ready to get real about making Hocus Pocus.
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Another October means it's time for another viewing of the Halloween classic Hocus Pocus.
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Maybe you'll just watch Hocus Pocus for the thousandth time and that's about it.
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Forget orange Kit Kats — ample airings of Hocus Pocus are the real Halloween treat.
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And (hopefully in time for next Halloween), a Hocus Pocus sequel has been confirmed.
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In addition to being a downright good time, Hocus Pocus is also quite quotable.
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Last week, Disney confirmed that a long-rumored new "Hocus Pocus" movie is in development.
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Parker seems disappointed that Hocus Pocus 2 hasn't happened yet — but that's pretty much it.
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The theme tonight is Halloween, so we will be carving pumpkins and watching Hocus Pocus.
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The Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash airs on October 20 at 8:15 p.m.
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Any of the Sanderson sisters from "Hocus Pocus" would make for a spell-binding costume.
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The cultural legacy of "Hocus Pocus" is huge now, especially during the month of October.
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Watching Hocus Pocus and having Guy Fieri Photoshop his face onto all three witchy sisters.
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And of course, we had to start with the greatest Halloween movie of all: Hocus Pocus.
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You know it's Halloween season when Hocus Pocus is on every major TV network through October.
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"Hocus Pocus" has made a serious comeback, and so have costumes of the three Sanderson sisters.
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What really turned me into a slightly rabid fan was a scene description from Hocus Pocus.
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Max Denison (Omri Katz), the floppy-haired protagonist of Hocus Pocus, has two primary personality traits.
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Though the fountain was pictured first in "Hocus Pocus," it was "Friends" that made it famous.
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Her "little monsters" moved onto the next chart topper, seemingly bored with her hocus pocus bullshit.
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But not everyone in the occult community takes issue with Hocus Pocus, recognizing its campy appeal.
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Update: Deadline reports that Disney Channel is in the early development stages of a Hocus Pocus remake.
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If you want to know what Hocus Pocus is about, don't ask its star Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Three Texas sisters have already pulled off spectacularly spooky ensembles in an adorable tribute to Hocus Pocus.
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This person, who decided that August 1st is the start of Watch Hocus Pocus Every Day Season.
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Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party is filled with special events, like the "Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular."
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Bette Midler brought back her "Hocus Pocus" character to life for her annual Hulaween Bash on Oct.
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And Hocus Pocus fans, prepare to celebrate: The cult-classic film will air a whopping 27 times.
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Overload your Netflix queue with the classics: Hocus Pocus, Scream, Nightmare on Elm Street and The Shining.
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Kelly Clarkson The singer channeled her inner Sanderson sister with this ode to "Hocus Pocus" witch Winnie.
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Beloved Halloween family movie Hocus Pocus is getting a remake courtesy of the Disney Channel, according to Deadline.
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Hocus Pocus Thackery Binx spends most of this Halloween favorite as a boy stuck in a cat's body.
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"It is pretty much across the board," Mr. Woods said of the people who attend "Hocus Pocus" viewings.
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Hocus Pocus subtly insinuates that a person's virginity — specifically, a boy's virginity — should be a source of shame.
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The most obvious appeal of Hocus Pocus is that Sarah and her sisters are essentially a girl group.
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Held in front of Cinderella's castle, the "Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular" brings the Sanderson Sisters to Orlando, Florida.
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Audience members praised the Mowry twins' acting chops and positively compared this film to classics like "Hocus Pocus."
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Their blood was drawn, then "hocus-pocus happened," she said, and the blood was infused back into them.
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The six-piece line consists of two scented formulas — It's Just A Bunch Of Hocus Pocus and Sanderson Sisters.
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It wasn't about any hocus-pocus woke shit, y'know what I'm saying, it was just about having a party.
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Of course, in internet language, this means that somewhere in Burbank, principal production for Hocus Pocus 2 just wrapped.
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Bette Midler answered fans' prayers on Friday when she dressed up as her beloved Hocus Pocus character, Winifred Sanderson.
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His credits include Hocus Pocus, High School Musical, and Michael Jackson's This is It. As told to Matt Baume.
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Birch's wedding comes five months after she and the cast celebrated the 25th anniversary of Hocus Pocus in July.
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Doubtfire 22pm Hocus Pocus 230am ParaNorman Thursday, October 24 240:253pm ParaNorman 250:29pm Hocus Pocus 220:211pm Despicable Me 225am The Boxtrolls Friday, October 211 255pm The Boxtrolls 228:27pm Disney's Bolt 30:29pm Despicable Me 240:211pm Disney's Frozen 250am Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame Saturday, October 22 22am ParaNorman 230:24am Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame 235:5am Disney's Bolt 205:29pm The Nightmare Before Christmas 210:211pm Hocus Pocus 220pm Disney's Frozen 229:24pm Disney Pixar's Monsters, Inc.
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National Treasure, The Mighty Ducks, The Princess Diaries and Hocus Pocus: What do all of these properties have in common?
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For the Hocus Pocus lovers and naysayers alike, here are three ways the film earns its Halloween-viewing bona fides.
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Instead of being a basic witch, you could go all out and channel Sarah Jessica Parker's character in Hocus Pocus.
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And, starting today, you can get your hands on all three bath bombs in one magical "Hocus Pocus" trio set.
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If you prefer your horror movies to be more Hocus Pocus than Hostel, this new film may be for you.
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Despite originally airing in 1993, "Hocus Pocus" is as popular as ever — there's even a potential remake in the works.
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Bette Midler has joined the 21st century, having just watched Hocus Pocus for the first time since the 90's!
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At Freeform's Hocus Pocus 25th anniversary special, Parker expressed shock at how dark the storyline was for a Disney film.
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The focus is on Hocus Pocus and The Nightmare Before Christmas this year, as both films celebrate their 25th anniversary.
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In this one, you can't deny the likeness between Sarah Jessica Parker's Hocus Pocus character and Conway's velvet-looking getup.
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On the contrary, they showed off their talents together when they cameoed in seasonal cult classic Hocus Pocus, released in 1993.
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Though I found Hocus Pocus enjoyable, I believe that everyone else is convinced it's great because they loved it as kids.
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It's been 25 years since the Sanderson sisters put a spell on us, and the magic of Hocus Pocus still lingers.
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It's an event where people dress up in costumes, solicit candy from their neighbors, and Hocus Pocus memes dominate the internet.
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For some, Halloween is about free Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins, Hocus Pocus, and finding the perfect pop culture-inspired party costume.
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In the 25 years since its release, Hocus Pocus has become a cult classic, and no one is happier than Midler.
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Please, Walt Disney Pictures, may we have a Hocus Pocus remake set in New Orleans featuring the stars of Hidden Figures?
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"I'd done This Boy's Life, and they'd given me the offer for Hocus Pocus, and I'd told them no," he said.
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To Zoe, Hocus Pocus is somewhat harmful because it portrays "a real group of people" in a frivolous and stereotypical light.
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As one of our experts so eloquently put it in preparing this case for trial, he was performing hocus pocus medicine.
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"As one of the creators of Hocus Pocus, I am disgusted by this putrid act of evasion," Mick Garris tweeted Monday.
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Every Halloween enthusiast knows that the season of the witch is not complete without at least one viewing of Hocus Pocus.
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To prove the difference between the two ales wasn't just hocus pocus, Fortnight sought out a laboratory and a German beer scientist.
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Check out the video to see the debut episode of UnScene, and leave a comment with your favorite moments from Hocus Pocus.
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Apparently there is one person out there who's not excited for the Hocus Pocus remake, and not entirely surprisingly, it's Bette Midler.
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Earlier this month, Midler's Hocus Pocus costar Sarah Jessica Parker expressed her excitement about reuniting with her evil Salem witch sisters someday.
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Crazy Rich Asians hit theaters this summer, with costumes by Mary Vogt (her past projects include Hocus Pocus and Men in Black).
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After it ends I had planned on finishing my lecture, but see that Hocus Pocus is on so I watch that instead.
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"Disney channel is rebooting Remaking "hocus pocus" good luck finding an actor that can fill the shoes of @BetteMidler," wrote one Twitter user.
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Batman Returns also led directly to Jones' audition for the 22018 Halloween family comedy Hocus Pocus, as the loose-limbed zombie Billy Butcherson.
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As if this timeline can get any more exhaustingly bonkers, Trump's new merchandise is a worse version of Disney's iconic Hocus Pocus poster.
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Midler's evil Hocus Pocus persona plays in sharp contrast to her off-screen self, where she tries to do good in her community.
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The Ray Donovan alum, also known for starring as Allison in the 1993 Halloween classic Hocus Pocus, is pregnant, she confirmed on Instagram.
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Disney World's new 'Hocus Pocus' cupcake has a bubbling black cauldron made out of chocolate cake and is filled with peanut butter chips
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Though many millennials undoubtedly grew up with "Hocus Pocus" as a Halloween staple in their household, "Halloweentown" is another holiday classic for many.
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After drizzling the ice with warm water, the whole cauldron is taken over with a smoky effect that's straight out of Hocus Pocus.
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Fall is quickly approaching, which of course means cooler weather, pumpkin spice everything, and watching Hocus Pocus at least 15 times before Halloween.
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Ms. Grossman said she is not offended by movies like "Hocus Pocus," which depict a less-flattering image of witches in popular culture.
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Thackery Binx waited 300 years for a virgin to light a candle, and Hocus Pocus fans have waited 25 years for more spooky fun.
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"I don't think any of us who were making it at the time thought Hocus Pocus would have such a long life," Parker mused.
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"To watching hocus pocus 4 million times before Halloween and to carving Willa Gray's first pumpkin," the Life Changes hit maker captioned the photo.
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While customers were enjoying their pumpkin spice lattes—and probably binging on Hocus Pocus—the coffee company was mixing up the Witch's Brew Frappuccino.
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Hocus Pocus premiered on July 16, 1993 and has grown into a cult hit ever since, with fans religiously watching the movie every Halloween.
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For those who don't feel like making the trip to Hollywood, the Freeform lineup will close with a Hocus Pocus marathon on Halloween morning.
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As much as we all love the delightful camp that is Hocus Pocus, it's horror movies and Halloween that really go hand-in-hand.
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Hocus Pocus premiered on July 16, 1993, and has grown into a cult hit ever since, with fans religiously watching the movie every Halloween.
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At the event, Midler revealed to PEOPLE that she recently rewatched her classic Halloween film Hocus Pocus for the first time since the 1990s.
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The hocus-pocus of these buybacks purportedly raises the value of a company stock by making excess shares disappear and increasing earnings per share.
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The media has no doubt continued the colonial legacy, playing its part in reducing age-old religions to hocus pocus and rag doll pricking.
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GRIFFIN STODDARD: I remember watching Hocus Pocus for the first time with a friend at her cabin when I was maybe seven or eight.
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Audience Score: 56%A young Kat Dennings, from "2 Broke Girls," stars alongside Eric Idle and Kathy Najimy, from "Hocus Pocus," in this film.
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Some engineering hocus pocus sees videos start uploading before you finish recording so you can share instantly viewable links as soon as you're done.
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They appeal also, perhaps, for the same reason astrology, numerology and other hocus-pocus systems do: because it's fun to divide people into categories.
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He's basically the only person I want in the Hocus Pocus remake, as he is the worthy successor to Omri Katz's Max by hair alone.
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It's been 26 years since the release of Hocus Pocus, but the classic Halloween flick remains a must-watch every time autumn rolls back around.
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Sarah Jessica Parker, who was there to promote her new HBO show Divorce, admitted that she hasn't said no to a Hocus Pocus sequel. What?!
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L. and I watch Hocus Pocus and Scream and drink two bottles of Witches Brew wine, a spicy red wine made by a Michigan winery.
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Tiffany Haddish and Billy Eichner embarked on a hilarious quest in New York City to find a "diverse" cast for a remake of Hocus Pocus.
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Although Midler shut down rumors of a a Hocus Pocus sequel in 2015, Parker later admitted she "would love" if the idea came to fruition.
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Hocus Pocus alum Thora Birch, who portrayed the lovable 19933-year-old protagonist in the Disney classic, announced she tied the knot on Twitter Friday.
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Zabladowski's hocus-pocus tango with Dr. T, one of many splendidly strange musical numbers, anticipates the spell-casting duels of the comic book Dr. Strange.
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In the near future of The Mandibles, Keynesian economics is revealed to be nothing more than "dodgy hocus-pocus" that has massively devalued the dollar.
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That has to be an ad for a hocus-pocus thing, because if autism is reversible and treatable, well, then it would be on Oprah.
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Such hocus-pocus did not prevent the likes of Kandinsky from appreciating the vigor of Theosophy's assault on materialism in the name of higher truth.
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Fun read about the only movie that truly terrifies me: Vulture's Josef Adalian writes how the movie "Hocus Pocus" became a classic Halloween hit movie.
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With a little hocus-pocus, as I understand it, they can basically define themselves as a T-shirt business, and pay much less in taxes.
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In a special Halloween-themed episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, the Grammy-winning singer brought Hocus Pocus to life in full Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson attire.
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"You guys, oh my God, I literally am in New York City, I've been auditioning all day, and Lizzo shared our Hocus Pocus video," she said.
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"You guys, oh my god, I literally am in New York City, I've been auditioning all day, and Lizzo shared our Hocus Pocus video," she said.
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Even without the THC, CBD may make you feel relatively chill as you watch Hocus Pocus or one of the new scary Halloween movies in theaters.
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Okay, so the cable channel is inviting fans to watch a party, which — if Hocus Pocus is your holiday go-to — you'll definitely want to do.
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"Wait, wait a minute," Midler, 72, said in a video posted on Freeform's YouTube page, while assuming the voice of her Hocus Pocus character Winifred Sanderson.
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People are realizing the iconic "Friends" fountain is in the Halloween movie "Hocus Pocus," and it's the crossover event no one knew they needed until now.
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The new Amuck Cupcake is a tribute to the Disney movie "Hocus Pocus" and can be found at Main Street USA's Main Street Bakery for $7.99.
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Pop culture is in the middle of a several-years-long witch moment — an only occasionally ironic, girl-power-inflected, "we nostalgically watch Hocus Pocus" witchcraft moment.
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Bette Midler's costume for her annual Hulaween party last night was a pitch-perfect throwback to her witchy run in the beloved '90s Halloween hit Hocus Pocus.
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She made her debut as Nostalgia Chick that fall, sometimes donning a bow tie or lens-free glasses to discuss movies like Hocus Pocus and Spice World.
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Almost a month after Freeform first announced its Hocus Pocus 25th anniversary special, original star Bette Midler finally confirmed that she'd be joining in on the fun.
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From Hocus Pocus to Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy, Doug Jones has had a prolific career in Hollywood, embodying many of the most memorable characters in film history.
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He also said it's what pushed him to turn down a leading role in Hocus Pocus for a smaller spot in 1993's What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
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The cupcake is a tribute to the classic Disney movie"Hocus Pocus"and can be found at Main Street USA's Main Street Bakery through the fall season.
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The Sanderson sisters from "Hocus Pocus" have their own Halloween-themed bash in the park and Cruella de Vil hosts a soiree at Tony's Town Square Restaurant.
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PLEASE OH PLEASE HAVE 'HOCUS POCUS' PLAYING ON THE TVs: Via Thrillist, an insanely decorated Halloween bar is open in Washington, D.C., for the month of October.
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The legendary actress attended her New York Restoration Project's annual "Hulaween" party dressed as Winifred Sanderson, the now-iconic witch she played in Hocus Pocus back in 1993.
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The prologue is a farrago, with expository narration pasted over a seemingly random assortment of battles, murders, and wizardy hocus-pocus, but that's not unusual for fantasy epics.
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It's doom in the classic sense, not hippie occult witchy hocus pocus, but more cast in the blueprint of dark metal like Cirith Ungol, Candlemass or Celtic Frost.
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Attached to the tweet is a photoshopped image of the Hocus Pocus star holding a cardboard sign over her body – and she's wearing only a bra and underwear.
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Disney+ also announced a Hocus Pocus sequel, along with a reboot of the hit Disney channel series, Lizze McGuire, starring Hilary Duff, along with several other new series.
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The supernatural hocus-pocus amounts to very little, but at least you get to see two great stars, however mismatched, being themselves in an all-too-symbolic setting.
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The great thing about doing the Hocus Pocus witches is that any way you do it people will be happy to see it because everyone loves the film.
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Clarkson hit the stage to sing her rendition of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You," which has been dubbed the unofficial theme song of Hocus Pocus.
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The witches by extension emerge not as so many harbingers of hocus-pocus but as three writhing, pulsating figures suspended in an eerily faceless limbo between life and death.
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Directed by: Andrew FlemingWritten by: Andrew Fleming and Peter FilardiFor those of us who were too cool in the '90s for Hocus Pocus, The Craft was the edgy alternative.
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While it fared better financially than Hocus Pocus, it was not well reviewed — and like the other film, has developed a serious cult following over the past couple decades.
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Hocus Pocus may derive humor from the toxic masculinity-drenched assumption that good-looking teenage boys shouldn't be virgins — but Max himself isn't bogged down by this toxic thinking.
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Given the amount of ridicule Max receives, the clear — but unstated — takeaway from Hocus Pocus is that a guy like Max should not be a virgin by this point.
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" Kyle: Even just the way he says something like "watch the way I make my top disappear hocus pocus" or "I leave blood over beats because my heart speaks.
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While "Friends" was set in New York City, and "Hocus Pocus" was set in Salem, Massachusetts, they were both filmed on the same Warner Brother's lot in Los Angeles.
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"[John McLaughlin] hands over the numbers, analysis and cross-tabs, no hocus pocus or smoke and mirrors," said Bill Dal Col, a GOP operative and Forbes's presidential campaign manager.
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Last week, Lizzo's "Truth Hurts" was turned into a spooky Halloween anthem by New York-based actress Gina Naomi Baez, who gave the chart-topper a Hocus Pocus-themed twist.
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The best part of the upcoming fall season is undoubtedly having another excuse to stay in and binge Netflix (that, and the return of Halloween re-runs like Hocus Pocus).
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According to an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bellisario's has a personal (and surprising) connection to Hocus Pocus that will definitely surprise fans of PLL and the funny, semi-frightening flick.
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This Scary Movie reminiscence is part of EW's feature full of "Hollywood's Greatest Untold Stories" about other movies in the horror genre, including Child's Play, The Craft, and Hocus Pocus.
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Titled Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash, the event will be hosted by Vanessa Hudgens and Hamilton's Jordan Fisher, and feature exclusive interviews with all of the witchy Sanderson sisters.
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" Minkin told Gizmodo that this procedure "sounds like a whole lot of hocus pocus," and that "there is no such thing as detox of the vagina, that I know about.
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Ray Donovan alum Vinessa Shaw — also known for starring as Allison in the Halloween classic Hocus Pocus — welcomed her first child with her graphic designer husband, Kristopher Gifford, on Tuesday, Feb.
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Hocus Pocus was a flop at the box office when it was first released, but became a favorite film among families over the years thanks to countless re-airings on television.
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"We have the Kardashian sisters, actually, are our chickens," said the Hocus Pocus star, 70, who added that she can no longer tell them apart after a tragic death years back.
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People made jokes that they were "today years old" when they first noticed that "Friends" and "Hocus Pocus" were filmed on the same lot, instead of locations on the east coast.
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Where's the fiscal responsibility in legislation with such budgetary hocus-pocus as the expiration of individual rate cuts that the bill's authors fully expect other lawmakers to preserve down the road?
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Unfortunately, Hocus Pocus isn't on any streaming platforms at the moment, so if you're a Netflix/Hulu purist, this may have to be the one time you have to branch out.
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And that's perhaps the strongest argument for why Hocus Pocus has become such a beloved October staple: Because for a certain age group, it captures the innocent thrill of Halloweens long past.
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But if you ask us, it's Hocus Pocus that we know and love best, and we hope her new baby grows up to enjoy the film just as much as we do.
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A Fox5 report on Baez' song said that she came up with the idea for the parody, wrote the Hocus Pocus-inspired lyrics, and shot the video in less than a week.
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Najimy, who also worked with Shaiman in Hocus Pocus, said she stumbled on her character Mary Patrick's signature "funny opera voice" during her final audition (of six) with Shaiman in Los Angeles.
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For all these reasons and more, Hocus Pocus is the perfect movie to watch in anticipation of Halloween — and now, Freeform is throwing a much-needed party in order to honor it.
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In celebration of Hocus Pocus' 25th anniversary, Freeform (who recently stepped up its game by expanding its annual 13 Nights of Halloween into 31 spooktacular nights) is inviting fans to a party.
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After I saw the movie, me and my friends would play Hocus Pocus at recess and I was always Winifred and the other girls would rotate who would be Sarah and Mary.
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Zoe, a 20-year-old witch, tells Broadly that Hocus Pocus made her worried that she'd be treated "like a joke" for practicing magic when she first saw it five years ago.
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Possibly. But now that I'm far past the age of trick-or-treating myself, I'm glad I still have Hocus Pocus to recapture a little bit of that Halloween magic year after year.
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Because I have canvassed the girls and they are willing to do it, but we have no say in it, so if you want a Hocus Pocus 2, ask the Walt Disney company.
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But if you're feeling ensorcelled, bewitched, spellbound, enchanted, possessed, like Bette Midler in Hocus Pocus — saucy but not too scary — this All Hallow's Eve, then not to worry, we've still got you covered.
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The actress joined the comedian on Billy On The Street in a segment released today that follows the pair as they frolic in search of the perfect cast for the Hocus Pocus remake.
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People made jokes on Twitter saying that they were "today years old" when they first noticed that "Friends" and "Hocus Pocus" were filmed on the same location and noted similarities between the sets.
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Luckily for us spooky superfans, Freeform is doing us a solid and playing Hocus Pocus upwards of 30 times in the month of October — including a back-to-back marathon on Halloween day.
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" The actress later posted a creative sign with quotes from her iconic 1993 film reading, "WINNIE, I SMELL … A CHILD" and 'It's just a bunch of Hocus Pocus" along with the positive pregnancy test.
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Inspired by the classic 1993 movie Hocus Pocus, the parody was written by New York-based actress Gina Naomi Baez, who also performed the song as Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson, originally played by Bette Midler.
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Inspired by the classic 1993 movie Hocus Pocus, the parody was written by New York-based actress Gina Naomi Baez, who also performed the song as Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson, originally played by Bette Midler.
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If you're a child of the '80s and '90s, the passage of time has probably eroded the memory of the Disney Channel 1993 original movie Hocus Pocus down to a nugget of glimmering nostalgia.
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On Thursday's episode of Watch What Happens Live, the Divorce star dished some new details on the possibilities of a Sex and the City 3 as well as the Halloween classic Hocus Pocus 2.
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Though it was released in July of 1993 (rather than the much more sensible October), Hocus Pocus has earned its place as the not-so-frightening Halloween movie that pretty much everyone can enjoy.
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And this project in particular was directed by Kenny Ortega, the man behind the fairy-tale witch romp Hocus Pocus and Disney's squeaky clean High School Musical trilogy; "gender kink" isn't exactly his jam.
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Kathy Najimy, who starred alongside Bette Midler and Sarah Jessica Parker in Hocus Pocus, says she's amazed by how beloved the 1993 film has become since it opened to disappointing box office and reviews.
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The stars of the iconic Halloween movie Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy discussed their favorite behind the scenes moments for Freeform's Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash, which premiered over the weekend.
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As someone who is 100 percent an autumnal bitch, I share in the annual tradition of watching Hocus Pocus every October, and getting a little too excited by Thackery Binx's transformation from cat to human.
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Using the sets of Halloween classics like Hocus Pocus, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Rosemary's Baby, Beetlejuice, and Stranger Things as inspiration, Wood created five rooms that we can easily draw inspiration from all year round.
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After a doctor friend confirmed that the product was harmless ("pure hocus pocus horticulture, but not going to hurt you"), I poured the powder that both looked and tasted like dirt into some sparking water.
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I can't believe people treat Hocus Pocus like it's the Citizen Kane of witch cinema (which it's not—Mary Kate and Ashley's Double, Double, Toil and Trouble is), when witches are essentially the apex of cool .
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Further proof of the witch trio abounds: The Sanderson sisters in Hocus Pocus the friends-turned-witches in The Witches of Eastwick, the Kindly Ones in Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, and even the cosmic beings Mrs.
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From the Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular to the Happy HallowWishes Fireworks Show, the cheerfully spooky happening takes over Disney's Magic Kingdom on a slew of scheduled nights between now and October 31, beginning at 7 p.m.
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No amount of marketing hocus-pocus could convince people that "The Sun Is Also a Star," a middling romantic comedy starring Yara Shahidi ("grown-ish"), was worth the hassle and expense of trekking to a theater.
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The Emperor is barely functioning at the beginning of Rise of Skywalker, but later sucks Force energy from Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Ben at the end — just like the witches in Hocus Pocus or, also, Voldemort.
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Creating a world where men are mostly absent or suspect and women must work to save themselves, Stuart McKenzie's thin but serviceable screenplay (he also directed with Miranda Harcourt) smartly favors human drama over hocus-pocus.
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The idea that a $200 billion federal investment would drive $1.5 trillion in total spending is "the great hocus-pocus," said Kevin DeGood, director of infrastructure policy at the liberal Center for American Progress think tank.
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If you've already watched Hocus Pocus, planned this year's epic (or last-minute) Halloween get-up, and tried Starbuck's vampire frappuccino, but you're still looking for something more to get into the Halloween spirit, you're in luck.
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Jakoby is even involved in one particular moment of hocus-pocus that feels legitimately magical, and it gives all the talk of special powers some real significance and weight, even when Bright does eventually devolve into chaos.
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So instead of the debate, you should probably just watch the iconic '290s film Hocus Pocus (featuring both Sarah Jessica Parker and Bette Midler), which Freeform conveniently happens to be airing on Wednesday night at 290 p.m.
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" In the video, which Shields said Alfie asked him to upload, the cutie plays the role of Midler's witchy villain Winifred in kid's film Hocus Pocus — doing an excellent cover of "I Put a Spell On You.
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The new movie, a skillful blend of nostalgic sentiment and hair-raising effects, with the visual punch of big-screen digital hocus-pocus and the liberties of the R rating, still has the soothing charm of familiarity.
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The latest in Allworth's series on the nuts and bolts of the art world, Mr Woodham's book is an elegant, amusing and perceptive guide to a market that is (often) long on hocus-pocus and short on transparency.
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There are no solid details surrounding the project as of yet, which is being written by Scarlett Lacey (The Royals), but Twitter had an idea or two earlier this summer of what a Hocus Pocus 2 should look like.
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Seeing the younger quarterback as a threat, the story goes, Brady refused to mentor him, iced him out of his hocus-pocus health program when he got hurt, and was downright giddy after Kraft forced Belichick to trade him.
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Endeavoring to access Langley's notebooks, she cozies up to his niece, a down-at-the-heels dealer in antiquarian books who isn't above employing a little Lee Israel-style hocus-pocus to produce fake inventory for a credulous clientele.
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Whether you're planning to throw a big bash for the kids, join the neighborhood costume party, or just curl up on the couch to watch Hocus Pocus for the hundredth time, you need the right snacks to set the mood.
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He's approached Samuel L. Jackson levels of ubiquity, with over 150 credits spanning 30 years, including iconic performances in cult sensations like Hocus Pocus in 1993, Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 1999, Hellboy in 20183, and Pan's Labyrinth in 2006.
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Whatever you have planned for Halloween night, remember that the third quarter moon is beaming down and encouraging you to make mindful choices to ensure your happiness — even that means something as simple as watching Hocus Pocus instead of Saw III.
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"Spending a week aboard an aircraft carrier as a 10-year-old was pretty wild," says the Hocus Pocus alum, who flew to Hawaii to return to the port in Naval Air Station Alameda outside of San Francisco with his dad.
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In the 1990s, witches and their love magic were cropping up everywhere in film, TV, and literature: 1993's Hocus Pocus with its three sister witches, 1998's WB series Charmed and its three other sister witches, the Harry Potter juggernaut.
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" Sanjiv Razdan, the chief operating officer at Sweetgreen, a salad chain and one of Humu's customers, said that if nudges did not have a track record at Google, he would probably consider the concept a bunch of "hocus-pocus happiness nonsense.
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If you would like to watch something other than The Craft that's also about teenagers and witchcraft (for some reason??), check out Halloweentown and Hocus Pocus on Disney+, The Blair Witch Project on Hulu, or Suspiria (2018) on Amazon Prime Video.
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The lights have been set to classics like AC/DC's "Thunderstuck," but they're also well-matched with doof doof-style bangers such as Hocus Pocus' 1995 hit "Here's Johnny" and Darude's "Sandstorm" — which helped Jaeschke go viral back in 2014.
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In extra-ghoulish news, Trump's latest attempt to ruin everything we love hits hard — right in the part of our brain where we store the slumber-party memories of watching (and rewatching, and rewatching again) the 1993 classic Hocus Pocus.
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Monday, October 1 5pm ParaNorman 7:10pm The Nightmare Before Christmas 8:50pm Hocus Pocus 12am ParaNorman Tuesday, October 2 5pm The Nightmare Before Christmas 19913:30pm Hocus Pocus 8:30pm Disney Pixar's Monsters University 12am Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Wednesday, October 3 4pm Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) 6:303pm Disney Pixar's Monsters University 9pm Monster House 12am The Final Girls Thursday, October 4 5pm ParaNorman 7pm Monster House 9pm The Addams Family (1991) 12am Teen Spirit Friday, October 5 13:30pm The Parent Trap (1998) 3:30pm Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) 6:10pm The Addams Family (1991) 8:303pm The Goonies 12am The Breakfast Club Saturday, October 6 7am The Parent Trap (50) 2:2am Monster House 30:4pm Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (35) 73:05pm The Haunted Mansion (9) 10:2345pm The Goonies 2325:235pm Hocus Pocus 2345:237pm Maleficent 2350:2325pm Warm Bodies Sunday, October 238 2350am Monster House 2312:10am Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) 11:40am The Haunted Mansion (2003) 1:403pm Alice in Wonderland (2010) 4:25pm Hocus Pocus 6:35pm/5:35c Maleficent 8:40pm Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (253) 11:20pm Dark Shadows (2012) Monday, October 230 8am ParaNorman 22pm Mrs.
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A few years ago, I would have written this off as hocus-pocus, but the older I get, the more I connect with things like astrology and crystal healers, so I went into the treatment ready to open up and embrace the weirdness.
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Let's be glad the Disney Channel and ABC Family (now Freeform) decided to put Hocus Pocus in constant rotation, because without them, we may never have gotten to relish the scenery-chewing witch performances from Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Contemporary critiques of Hocus Pocus from the pagan community tend to focus on the fact that witches and magic are real, that they're not jokes, and that amplifying outdated stereotypes about the craft is damaging to the lived experiences of witches today.
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The selections range from whimsical Halloween fare (like The Nightmare Before Christmas and Hocus Pocus) to movies that are just kind of creepy (The Addams Family, Hotel Transylvania) to fun family films that are the equivalent of Halloween candy for the soul (Mrs.
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If you don't have cable, and therefore no direct access to Freeform, you can get a Live TV free trial on Hulu, YouTubeTV, Sling, AT&T TV, or Vue, which will give you access to up to seven days of Hocus Pocus.
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For Breivik, Breitbart, and others, multiculturalism is a strategic goal en route to the aforementioned globalist superstate: Erode the foundations of the nation and the culture of its people, and hocus pocus, you have monolithic, monocultural (yet somehow also still multicultural) corporate rule.
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Hocus Pocus, the 1993 movie about a trio of Colonial-era witches who come back from the dead to terrorize mid-'90s Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween night, has somehow become a bona fide classic in the 23 years since its unimpressive big-screen debut.
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The sisters, Winifred, Sarah and Mary — possibly joined by good, old Book — may appear in a new "Hocus Pocus" movie: A Disney executive involved in the project, which has long been rumored, confirmed on Thursday that it was in the early stages of development.
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So lay off, former theater kids and fellow gays – I've finally seen Hocus Pocus, and I've got notes: Give me more spooky girl group singing and hair-ography and less anti-witch, heterosexual propaganda put forth by a big virgin – then maybe we can talk.
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But while I hoped that Hocus Pocus would be less Grinch-like and more teen musical heaven, it felt more like an unsatisfying amalgamation of the two – there was not nearly enough singing, and I sympathized way more with the villains than the heroes.
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In the end, the Democratic Party's moral-sounding "agenda" to fight economic inequality reveals itself nothing more than collectivist hocus-pocus to retract the rights of producers in favor of those who feel it is their "right" to make claims on the production of others.
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Rachel Bloom, Vella Lovell, and Gabrielle Ruiz fully commit to their characters' wide-eyed mania (and bad accents), turning the conceit of this song up to 218 and making us truly believe in the revolutionary power of rosé and nostalgically watching Hocus Pocus. Zigga-zow!
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And, 39 years later ... the powerhouse singer of "Wind Beneath My Wings" and "Hocus Pocus" hottie -- who is celebrating her 74th birthday Sunday -- looking better than ever attending the Wall Street Journal Magazine 2019 Innovator Awards in New York City earlier last month (right).
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Wordplay WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — You are feeling sleepy … you might be able to solve this deceptively simple crossword, but our constructors, Peter A. Collins and Bruce Haight, have pulled some hocus-pocus so that you might not see the entirety of the theme until you are finished.
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The Cavaliers, after their 137-116 victory, were still just one loss from being former champions, and they had to travel back to Oakland for Game 5, where the fans will scream like banshees and the Warriors will do their pass-and-shoot-and-smile hocus-pocus.
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We're hoping the Kenny Ortega classic (yes Hocus Pocus and High School Musical were directed by the same person) will become a mainstay on Disney's new streaming platform, Disney+, but that release isn't until November 12, so it's a bit of a moot point until Halloween 2020.
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Following her announcement, Shaw posted a creative sign reading "WINNIE, I SMELL … A CHILD" and "It's just a bunch of Hocus Pocus" — two quotes from the film — flanking a positive pregnancy test and drawings of the three iconic Sanderson sisters, made famous by Sarah Jessica Parker, Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy.
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"So if my mum or my grandma says they're going to give me this tea and it'll make me better, and somebody comes along saying, 'Oh, that was just hocus pocus, I'll give you a real medicine,' what's the difference?" asked Baum, who is a professor of infectious diseases at Imperial College London.
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Whether you're planning to celebrate by eating excessive amounts of fun-size candy or hunting for the perfect costume for you pup, you'll want to make sure you book at least ten hours this month to watch (and rewatch) the greatest Halloween movie of all time — Hocus Pocus (runner up goes to Halloweentown, obviously).
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Disney is developing a follow up to its 1993 cult classic Hocus Pocus — which starred Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as a trio of witches who, after being accidentally resurrected on Halloween, set out to suck the life out of a town of children to undo the curse that sent them away 300 years earlier.
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In typical fashion, I had left it all for the very last possible minute (save for the custom blend gin I had made a few weeks prior by passing a bottle of cheap vodka through a Brita filter three times and infusing it with fresh juniper and some New Age-y twigs I bought at a Hocus Pocus store).
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Particle physicist and celebrity scientist Brian CoxPhoto: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Wikimedia Commons)There's a growing, bewildering movement of folks who reject the most basic learnings of science in favor of conspiracy theories and hocus pocus—as a science journalist, I regularly get emails from people who firmly believe the Earth is flat, as shocking as that may seem.
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What we're left with is just more of the same hocus pocus that has animated so much of the discourse around feminism this year, a facile pitch to the effect of look at this famous woman and her opportunities, you can get this, too, if you just lean in hard enough—and oh, please don't look at our company's political donation disclosures.
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Actress Bette Midler tweeted a throwback photo from her days playing a witch in Disney's "Hocus Pocus" but swapped out her castmates for two of President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's public foes.
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Shakespeare provided the template around 220 with Macbeth's hurly-burly-predicting Weird Sisters — witches — whose descendants have inspired any number of updates, most of them gently comedic, like 290's "Hocus Pocus" or "Charmed," the WB series that debuted in the late 2400s in which three comely sisters with special powers and glossy dark hair run around San Francisco protecting the innocent from evil beings.
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For those who've somehow forgotten, Hocus Pocus tells the story of how Max Dennison (Omri Katz), his precocious kid sister Dani (a wee Thora Birch), and Max's crush Allison (Vinessa Shaw) find themselves battling the child-soul-sucking Sanderson sisters (played by Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker) on Halloween night in Salem, after virginal Max lights a magical black flame candle that allows the witches to come back from the dead.
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