You have to admit though that Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz are way more promising stars than Witherspoon and Reynolds at least. I am a little confused by how Ryan Reynolds and Waltz can possibly be cast in the same role though.

I think a Dark Shadows update could actually be pretty awesome, though probably would work best as an AMC or HBO series. It even could have been a good Tim Burton movie if it had been made ten or fifteen years ago with practical effects and a very different script. I think that movie was more Johnny Depp's thing that…

Wait, this movie actually sounds interesting and stars good actors that haven't been in previous Burton movies? Burton's last adaptation of a true story (Ed Wood) was fantastic and restrained him from indulging in his worst instincts so I'm actually getting kind of excited about this one, though admittedly with…

Well it's based on a true story so you could say this isn't original either. Also neither of those movies you mentioned were original: his last original movie was Edward Scissorhands in 1990. I actually think that's a pretty weird criticism of Burton: did people complain that Stanley Kubrick or Stephen Spielberg…

What's with all the hate? It wasn't great but was a fun little movie and was wonderful visually.

Yeah I've seen it used in lots of articles on other sites. My dad knows the term and had no clue it came from the AV Club. It's likely to end up being this site's biggest contribution to pop culture.

Truly this is a sad day for werewolf fandom… the actor was even in a Soderbergh movie!

Honestly season five was almost as horrible in retrospect, it just seemed like it was going somewhere interesting for a while. It was nice to see Russell and some other old characters again, but that storyline with the fire demon was even worse than the inbred were-panthers and the show never managed to make the…

I'm pretty sure the fairies didn't show up at all until the third season? Unless I'm just going crazy.

Surely you recognize the True Blood werewolf guy?

Except the second season of AHS was actually pretty great television, and was pulling off exactly what it was aiming for. This show is just really bad.

I actually like a lot of shows that are considered nighttime soaps, like The Vampire Diaries, but I feel like the soap opera plotting in this one is robbing it of it's potential to be more daring in it's storytelling. I also wish it would stop being so gloomy and pretentious and have some fun with the soapy melodrama.…

Wait how the fuck is the last stray observation closeminded? It's just observing that this is a slick, cheap cash in to rope in religious people so they'll get more stuff from Walmart and McDonald's and whatever. The observation is more saying that this show doesn't give a fuck about The Bible, or Christianity, and…

Thank you for pointing this out. I don't really understand how so many people fail to see that this is really a gussied up, faster paced version of a soap opera. The storytelling is the biggest indication of this: rather than aiming towards any kind of goal or end point like most serialized shows, it is content to…

Yeah it's really not that difficult. Just double down on the Katherine and we're good. They have been having a lot of difficulty bringing in interesting new characters since season 2, though I kind of suspect it's because we've already had so many hanging around for a long time since then. I don't think that it's been…

@avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus What?!!! No fucking way, I Will Remember You and Five By Five/Sanctuary are the only classic season 1 episodes of Angel. Weirdly it felt a lot more awkward whenever Angel went back to BTVS for some reason.  I would expect a loooot of crossovers with The Originals though.

I must be alone among TVD fans in not really liking Alaric. My first impression of him when he was introduced was that he was a kind of dull and unnecessary addition to the cast, and I'm not sure the show ever really changed my mind.

No clue who was… I'm still not really sure honestly. I marathoned the show back when season 2 ended so I'm kind of fuzzy on the details now.

I think it's more like a "Spoiler Space for the movies Tasha reviews" policy.

Aaaaaand edited. I don't know how the name Taylor Hicks even got stuck in my head, I doubt I've ever heard a single song by him.