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And we thought “Venom” and “Morbius” were bad. To be fair, they are bad, but not like this — not like “Madame Web.” Since the original “Spider-Man” tr...

We’re a little late to the game, but here’s the thing about Christmas movies: the holidays aren’t always feel-good and idyllic with everything going a...

One of my favorite specific subgenres of movies is those near-future science-fiction stories that are meant to be fairly realistic and based on some s...

People, like onions and ogres, have layers. You’re a different person with your family than at work or at the store. Not everyone knows exactly what y...

There’s nothing quite as exciting – or anxiety-inducing – as a surprise sequel to a movie that came out decades before, especially if the original fil...

Adaptations are almost always impossible to pull off. Plenty of TV shows, movies and stage productions are based on books, comics and earlier written ...

The worlds of author Roald Dahl have been entertaining and terrifying children for generations. With a seemingly endless imagination and dry, dark Bri...

When discussing the long-running movie franchises that have had a huge impact on cinema — your “James Bond,” your “Star Wars,” your comic book adaptat...

SALAMANCA — Celebrate the holiday with country music superstar Sara Evans at 7 p.m. Saturday when she brings her “Go Tell It On The Mountain” Christma...

I love movies for a lot of reasons, but getting to spend a couple of hours transported to a world or a lifestyle outside my own is a big one. Visiting...

SALAMANCA — A celebrated author familiar with Haudenosaunee life and culture recently visited students at Salamanca High School to share her experienc...

Of all the movie series with the long line of sequels, prequels, re-boots and re-imaginings in recent years, the one I last expected to see a prequel ...

The holidays are just around the corner, and along with plenty of family gatherings and community events to celebrate the season, the late fall and ea...

Introducing kids to horror movies can be such a slippery slope. Of course you shouldn’t show “The Exorcist” to a 10-year-old, but it’s usually around ...

“They don’t make ‘em like they used to,” is something people have been saying for decades, and yeah, of course movies aren’t made the same way in 2023...

A gimmick can often make or break a movie’s success, especially if that gimmick takes away from the real heart of whatever the filmmakers are trying t...

Fifty years ago this year, one of the greatest movies of the 1970s was released, terrifying audiences with depictions of horror that the world had nev...

In the never-ending parade of adaptations of established works and all the sequels, prequels, remakes, re-imaginings, reboots and spin-offs that follo...