Hello, my name's Justin the Clue, and I'm pleased to be joined today with one of my

favorite people who co-hosts this podcast.

Will Sloan, thank you.

Sorry, have you, have you entered the brundlefly machine with Leonard Malton?

I have been consuming so much Leonard Malton media this week that like almost any

film related text that I read, I hear it not just his voice, but his intonation, which is kind

of like almost newsman adjacent because that's what he did for the longest time.

You know, as someone who like speaks into a microphone professionally and has kind of had to learn how to do it. To do it, you have to throw shame to the wind sort of. You have to own what you're saying. I really respect or I have a new respect for guy like Malton or Roger Ebert or Gene Ciskel. The guys who just. Gene Shalett. Yeah, you know, frankly, the guys who are just like, hey, guys, I'm talking into a TV camera, you know?

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

But, hey, we're here actually to praise Leonard Malton.

And Leonard Malton, to our younger listeners, may be completely foreign to them.

If you're our age and older, you may know him first and foremost as the guy from entertainment

tonight.

You may know him as the guy on the cover of the Leonard Moulton movie guide.

The movie guide ran from 1969 to 2013 in various incarnations.

And before the internet, for many years, Leonard Malton's

movie and video guide was like the internet movie database. It had 20,000 capsule reviews.

Every movie ever made. Not actually. But it sure seemed that way. And everyone was written by

Leonard Malton. Not actually. Not actually. Because when he was 19 years old, actually 18 years old in the 1960s, he took over editing this book that had existed before called TV movies.

The book itself is of secondary importance to me than the fact that he was 18 or 19 when he started doing it.

And this is, I think this is the key to Leonard Moulton.

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