Movie Guide®

Cinematherapy: The Girl's Guide to Movies for Every Mood
$14.95
I was expecting so much more from this book. Most of the movies I've seen and I wouldn't necessarily agree with the categories the authors placed the movies in. (For example, if you are PMSing you might find what you're looking for under the "Working Girl Blues" category).
I just didn't like their suggestions for anything.
Go with your gut when you need a good movie.. don't bother looking here.
So much for my idea of ordering the other "therapy" books. Not happening.

Leonard Maltin's 2010 Movie Guide (Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide)
$20.00
** PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU BUY THE KINDLE EDITION **

I had a bad feeling when the title page came up as a chopped-off scan... it gets worse.

Here is the entire set of links in the table of contents: Title Page, Copyright Page, Introduction, Index of Stars, Index of Directors, and Widescreen Glossary.

Yes, there is not even a link to the start of the reviews section. I had to page through *40* screens just to get to the start of the "A" titled reviews!

Further, the book does not even include a hyperlink system to allow you to jump to reviews for any particular letter of the alphabet.

This is inexcusable.

These omissions render the current version unnecessarily difficult (if not impossible) to browse.

This lack of formatting represents a "behind the times" cut-rate effort. If all you want to do is search for terms, then this edition *may* work for you (other reviews cast doubt on this ability, and that function will be somewhat less useful for me given the hundreds of other titles on my Kindle 1).

If you want to browse the reviews and flip from one title to another in different parts of the alphabet (like I am used to doing with my hardcopy Guide) - good luck!

As a long time Maltin fan, and an owner of the hardcopy editions for over two decades, I am greatly disappointed with the quality of the Kindle edition of the Movie Guide.

To use the Guide's rating scale, this one is a BOMB. Hope they fix it!

The Best Old Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together
$18.00
Ty Burr has written an excellent book. It's entirely readable and more than just a list of movies. He breaks it down into age levels, gives selling points for a film, possible "pause-button explanations" when there are topics that may need to be explained or discussed, and other films to line up next. An example would be starting with the Adventures of Robin Hood and moving onto The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood. We added The Prince & the Pauper and so Errol Flynn is now a known actor in our household.

Would I ever have thought to try The African Queen with my sons? No. But it's true that the Hepburn and Bogart characters are amazing, the leeches grossed them out, they enjoyed Hepburn pouring the booze into the river and the adventure of the river journey made for a great family movie night.

Burr's description of showing his daughters movies like King Kong will make you laugh out loud and I enjoyed reading the descriptions of movies that even if they aren't suitable for my family. I have sons while Burr has daughters but that just makes me wonder if I could get my family to watch a musical - I bet I can with some of Burr's suggestions.

When a book keeps getting checked out from the library that means it's time to buy my own copy. This is just that type of book.

Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide
$22.95
This was one of two items I bought for my zombie-crazy friend for his birthday.

When the shipment arrive (promptly, may I add) I began flipping through this particular book. I was absolutely entertained by the writers reviews, some several pages long, giving previous movies entirely new significance. A must for any die-hard Zombie fan.