I’m Podcasting Again

Exclusive Featured Journal July 22, 2015

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I’m happy to report that after an unplanned hiatus, during which my partner Baron Vaughn and my daughter Jessie have done yeoman service, I am back at the microphone for Maltin on Movies with Baron Vaughn on the Wolfpop network. Baron is busy shooting season two of the acclaimed Netflix series Grace and Frankie, so Jessie and I are manning the fort this week and next.

Jessie solicited questions from our listeners and we got a terrific response, so this week’s episode is a wide-ranging conversation dealing with a variety of topics about films old and new. Jessie is lively and fun and certainly has her own opinions quite apart from mine. We had a good time “talking movies,” as we always do, and hope you’ll enjoy the results. You can check out the new episode on iTunes or by clicking HERE.

Leonard Maltin

Leonard Maltin is one of the world’s most respected film critics and historians. He is best known for his widely-used reference work Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide and its companion volume Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide, now in its third edition, as well as his thirty-year run on television’s Entertainment Tonight. He teaches at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and appears regularly on Reelz Channel and Turner Classic Movies. His books include The 151 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen, Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, The Great Movie Comedians, The Disney Films, The Art of the Cinematographer, Movie Comedy Teams, The Great American Broadcast, and Leonard Maltin’s Movie Encyclopedia. He served two terms as President of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, is a voting member of the National Film Registry, and was appointed by the Librarian of Congress to sit on the Board of Directors of the National Film Preservation Foundation. He hosted and co-produced the popular Walt Disney Treasures DVD series and has appeared on innumerable television programs and documentaries. He has been the recipient of awards from the American Society of Cinematographers, the Telluride Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, and San Diego’s Comic-Con International. Perhaps the pinnacle of his career was his appearance in a now-classic episode of South Park. (Or was it Carmela consulting his Movie Guide on an episode of The Sopranos?) He holds court at leonardmaltin.com. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook; you can also listen to him on his weekly podcast: Maltin on Movies. — [Artwork by Drew Friedman]