Leonard Maltin has been publishing his Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide under various different titles (The Movie and Video Guide, TV Movies, etc.) since 1969, although he didn’t start putting out annual updated editions until 1987. In 2005 he started publishing Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide, which only covers movies released in 1960 and before, mostly so he could save space in the annual editions. Either way, the standard annual edition is a pretty fat book, chock full of capsulized movie reviews that are about two or three sentences long, at most.

This past September at Fantastic Fest, Tim and Karrie League of the Alamo Drafthouse introduced me to the wonder of the Leonard Maltin Movie Game. If Maltin has any moxie, he might want to put out his own edition of this, complete with his smiling mug branded all over the box. Although chances are that you already have everything you need to play, right in your own home. Read on to find out how you can entertain friends, and poke fun at Maltin’s writing style, all in one evening.

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