Leonard Maltin chimes in

The ever-credible Leonard Maltin has included Big Screen Boston in his summer movie book round-up. Here's what he has to say:

BIG SCREEN BOSTON: From "Mystery Street" to "The Departed" and Beyond by Paul Sherman (Black Bars Publishing) — Film buff and critic Sherman has researched scores of films that were set and/or filmed at least in part in the Boston area and compiled this informative survey book, crammed with background information, assessments of the films, and detailed information on the use of locations. Obvious choices like The Boston Strangler, Charly, The Thomas Crown Affair, Love Story, The Brink’s Job, The Departed, Mystic River, Fever Pitch, The Perfect Storm and A Civil Action are cited alongside smaller, independent features. A separate section deals in brief with scores of films that had at least some Boston-area content, from The Cardinal to Stuck on You. I can’t imagine anyone producing a more definitive document on the subject.

Check out Maltin's Movie Crazy site for the entire book round-up and more. Glad to see that, after all these years, Leonard is as enthusiastic about movies as he was when he was a teenager putting out Film Fan Monthly. I still have my copy of Leonard's Movie Comedy Teams that I got as a pre-teen in the early 1970s. And I still check it when I want to decide if a particular Olsen & Johnson movie (i.e., any other one than the great Hellzapoppin') showing at 4 am on TCM is worth recording or not.