That would have been a great line.

Yep, Angie is sweet and funny. I was worried that Dottie might discover her in her room and kill her.

Indeed. Also, Atwell is not only a lovely woman but seems to be a charming goofball whom everyone likes. It's easy to imagine the stunt guys saying "go ahead and sell it by really hitting me, just be careful you don't break your hand." I can even imagine them saying something similar to really likeable male actor …

True enough. There's a difference between deliberately making contact, with it being acknowledged beforehand that you will, and missing your mark or doing somehing that wasn't choreographed. The fight between Taylor and Smith had some unchoreographed stuff in it, but apparently both men were willing participants and…

I'm disappointed that the reviewer didn't mention the nice Hitchcockian vibe, including one blatant shout out to the original MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, the genuinely funny line about Ginger Rogers, or the clever sound editing with the drill(s), which was worthy of both Hitchcock and Robert Fuest (who directed not only…

Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, and all the early Bond stunt guys would disagree with you. Several of the 007 fight coordinators have said that the superiority of the fight scenes with Conney and Lazenby over those with Moore made the bruises and bloody noses worthwhile. The brutal fight between Rod Taylor and…

Yes, that's fairly obvious, and nobody who was croggled by it has a right to complain about the show being unsubtle.

The kickass neo-noir novelist Christa Faust, who knew a lot of Hollywood folks when she was still married to the author of the screenplay for THE CROW, told a great story on the old GEnie network about Frank Darrabont, who apparently used to be a neighbor of hers. She said he had it in his contract that he got one of…

It would take Bizarro World logic to argue that Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a coward.

That's the point he's making when he says that some critics of the film have, ironically, accused it of "lying" because it doesn't depict Kyle as a liar.

Here's Beagle's short story "Two Hearts," the sequel to The Last Unicorn that was published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in the early 00s..

That's true of so many things. James Whale's FRANKENSTEIN was made for adults (and was adults-only in Britain). HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and HOUSE OF DRACULA, while not kids films per se, were "kid friendly" (despite the body counts and horror). GOJIRA was definitely not aimed at kids. GODZILLA VS.MEGALON was.

There are some pussy shots.

Have you read Beagle's short story sequel "Two Hearts"? It's about Schmendrick and Molly and a new character (and the Unicorn, of course).

I actually agree with this even though I question the article's assumption that THE LAST UNICORN is a children's movie. Because I think children can love art that's aimed at adults even if they don't fullly understand it or are frightened by it. FRANKENSTEIN and THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and KING KONG and the…

I think this is very true. There are quite a few things I loved as a kid or even as a teenager without necessarily understanding.

Yes, as I've said elsewhere, it's the rare fantasy novel where the songs are actually good. I particularly love "When I was a young man and very well thought of."

When Disney's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAYS COMES was being made, Bradbury said in an interview that he'd once signed the book "to Christopher Lee, who is Mr. Dark", but that "Chris could never play it now, it's too obvious." He said his ideal casting would be Peter O'Toole, but that Jonathan Pryce was fine. I do like…

it's useful to remember that, just as THE LAST UNICORN wasn't originally published as a hardcover "literary novel" but was reprinted as a genre fantasy paperback, a book can debut in one marketing category and, over time, morph into another. Not all beloved children's or YA books were originally published as such. …

Are you British? I'm aware that it is indeed considered a beloved children's book in its native UK, where it won the Carnegie and Guardian awards. But I'm 57 and in 1974, when I was 16, I was a bookish nerd who regularly read the book reviews in my father's copies of The New York Times, the Washington Post, the New…