It takes immense psychological resiliency to be where we are today. Actor Alan Arkin, who plays the character Schmendrick in The Last Unicorn, has a line in the film that I keep on a sticky note at my ...

Ridley Scott’s cult film Legend turns 35 this week. It begins with a black screen as red text scrolls, setting the stage for the action. It tells us that once upon a time there was only darkness, ...

40 years ago, in 1982, The Last Unicorn premiered in theaters across the United States. Based on the novel by Peter S Beagle, the film conjured images of dark magic, mortality, and the blurred line ...

Extinction haunts the film from its earliest moments. It’s not strange to revisit the films you loved in your childhood. It’s not even that odd that I’ve seen the film close to a hundred times.

Two decades into redefining the TV holiday special (stop-motion Frosty, Rudolph, etc.), the animation team of Rankin/Bass got freakier with The Last Unicorn. Based on the 1968 Peter S. Beagle fantasy ...