On the last episode of the podcast, Justin and I were talking about how much we loved the critic Leonard Maltin's new autobiography Starstruck. It felt like a book that was really just written for us. And we were like, wouldn't it be great if we could talk to Leonard Moulton about this book? You know, just have a bit of a jam session with

Leonard himself. Leonard Moulton is known as one of the top critics to ever live. His face on the

movie guide. And I think there is an association sometimes that like, oh, he's more, you know,

what's new, what's current, and what is the popular

opinion? Because, you know, the movie guide still gets used at Bay Street Video. They still have it.

And I asked my pal Mark Hanson, who works there, do people still check it? And he's like, yep,

they always do because they want to see what the consensus is. Yeah. And he was on entertainment

tonight for decades. Definitely, and a lot of

people's had the image of the mainstream movie critic. But the thing about Leonard Walton is

Leonard is a freak. Leonard was editing his own zine, film fan monthly when he was, what,

15 years old. He was writing to old Hollywood stars when he was just a teenager. He's the world authority on

our gang slash the little rascals. Nobody loves old Hollywood movies more than this man.

And even like in the 2000s, he started a new movie zine called Movie Crazy. And when you look

at the articles that are published in it, I have a book here

that has some of them. They are the like deepest cuts, a whole chapter on a mascot musical

called Young and Beautiful with lines like any movie that features a close up of Franklin Pangborn

in its first scene can't all be bad. I mean, first of all, I'm like, who's Franklin Pangboard?

But that's what I love about Leonard Malton is that like his passion for cinema is like so deep and nerdy,

which you wouldn't usually think about if you just saw him like every night on Entertainment Tonight.

But you know, he's also somebody who has used his power,

used the profile that he got from Entertainment Tonight and the movie guide for good.

He's channeled it into so many endeavors like the Walt Disney classics DVD sets, where he would provide these wonderful curation and contextualizing information for all those

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