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Without a doubt, the only time in my life I've ever felt more concerned for the health & safety of a plastic toilet seat than a human being...

UDO UNLEASHED!!! Week 2 – Erotic Udo A foursome of oddball Udo nudie flicks just in time for Valentine’s Day

Some sexy Udo shenanigans for your V-Day / Friday the 13th viewing pleasure...
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"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."

It was such a pleasure to write the essay for Criterion's director-approved 4K of BODY HEAT, exquisitely restored.
Preorder now for May!
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I Watched 10 Wuthering Heights Adaptations. Here's What's Worth Your Time Emerald Fennell's take on Emily Brontë's classic novel is already divisive, but the story has a rich on-screen history worth exploring.

I watched 10 versions of Wuthering Heights, ranging from awesome to lousy. Find out where Emerald Fennell's reimagining falls... time.com/7378467/wuth...

James Sallis, 1944-2026 - The Poisoned Pen Bookstore Thank you to Patrick Millikin from The Poisoned Pen for sharing his tribute to James Sallis, shared from the obituary Millikin wrote at http://Legacy.com. James Sallis, renowned writer, teacher and mu...

“Write about what you don’t understand.”

Beautiful reminiscence from Patrick Millikin @poisonedpen.bsky.social

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UDO UNLEASHED!!! Week 1 – Udo’s Classic Monsters Udo K as Count Dracula, Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll & a melancholy witch hunter. What more could a budding Udophile ask for?

Speaking of craven, soulless shilling (but only for myself), how about some alternative Super Bowl viewing/reading? I promise it's more fun than the next/ninth Meta ad you'll surely be enduring soon...
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Ben Affleck, serious actor & definitely not just an AI-enhanced Dunkaccino shill, in "Dumbkin Bronuts."

Robert Redford: Remainders, Reconsiderations & Rankings A super-sized R.I.P. Tribute to the recently deceased Sundance Kid

A little Redford "Ranch Breakfast" for the last day of Sundance...
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The funniest, loveliest movie mischief maker with a laugh like a melodic bell. Catherine O'Hara had such an exuberant energy & an embrace of twinkle-eyed chaos that could have caused her characters to float away. Still, she kept them tethered to earth in the most delightfully surprising ways. #RIP

one of my absolute favorite Catherine O'Hara performances:

If the brilliant Catherine O'Hara's passing doesn't prompt all-powerful Netflix to finally pony up the ca$h for the complete SCTV (and its reportedly pricey music rights), then I'm cancelling my subscription.

In a related note, where is that Marty Scorsese SCTV doc we long ago were promised???

YouTube video by The Second City SCTV - Lola's Love Spirit

Catherine O’Hara SCTV thread

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The Letterburched Lowdown - 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE & THE RIP Matt & Ben? Or Kelson & Samson? Which "best bro" duo is right for you?

Well, well, well...look who's pivoting to audio (at least temporarily).
#SamsonSchlong #JackTheRip #Wilbur4President

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Top 25 Movies of the 21st Century (So Far) Test your movie memory skills with this most unorthodox Best of the 21st Century list

Eh, #GoldenGlobes, Schmolden Schmobes.
They only give out awards for one single year.
How about we dole out some kudos for the LAST 25???
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2025 Movie Letter Grades (The Complete List) Did your personal fave of 2025 pass or fail the Letterburched standardized test?

Student: Are we being graded on this?
Teacher: Yes, and harshly!

Go here to get your first LB ruler smack to the knuckles of the New Year...
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Best & Worst of 2025 Two decades of movie list-making & still going strong. ¡Viva la extenuación!

This is what you want, this is what you get
This is what you want, this is what you get
This is what you want, this is what you get
This is what you want, this is what you get
This is what you want, this is what you get
This is what you want, this is what y
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Do I spy a Golden Toilet Heist movie in someone's future???
👀🤞

who is that you hear screaming? it is me, I'm the one who is screaming. many thanks to ashley judd for sharing with me her memories of working on michael mann's HEAT; at @vulture.com:

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Josh Safdie’s New York: A Guide to All the Cameos in ‘Marty Supreme’ From internet personalities and athletes to Isaac Mizrahi and David Mamet, Safdie explains how and why he found the perfect nonactors to populate his version of 1950s New York City.

Merry Christmas to us all. I spoke to Josh Safdie about all the screwballs, lowlifes, and junkyard Jews on the periphery of MARTY SUPREME. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Eagerly awaiting the title card "And Introducing Jordan 'I'm Wearing a Cardboard Belt!' Hoffman" superimposed atop a legion of spermatozoa infiltrating an egg in the opening creds of the next solo/joint Safdies jam.

Letterburched 21st Century Terrors Marathon Pre-game your own Halloween horror viewing with 30 possible selections seen by LB in the month of October

A boatload of #Halloween horror binge options (and only a handful of them older than the legal drinking age!)
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black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

Diane Keaton getting her mug shot in Looking For Mr. Goodbar

Glad some people got around to watching Looking For Mr. Goodbar yesterday in honour of Diane Keaton. RETVRN to when a deeply dark, depressing (and angrifying) movie could be a box office smash (in 1977, when this was still possible). Keaton nails the difficult and complex part.

Thoughts on ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER via #letterboxd.

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A ★★★★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025) ¡viva la revolución! once in a great while a movie meets its moment and the collision is explosive, exhilarating, incendiary. a film for our times and maybe a better one than we deserve.

Go see it this weekend, the biggest screen you can find. Here's a movie that can express and amplify all your rage, frustration, alarm, fatigue...and most of all your need for hope.

BEYOND MR. BLONDE: A Michael Madsen ‘90s Neo-Noir Mini Tribute Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie? Or are you gonna bite?

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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Best & Worst of 2005 The very first Burch Best-Worst, bursting with mid-aughts goodness (and badness)

LB's first #FlashbackFriday. Many more to come.
Oh yes, and make sure to #BoycottDisney this weekend (something I've been doing for the past 20 yrs anyway)

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Summer Screen & Stream, Weekend 15: CAUGHT STEALING & THE TOXIC AVENGER One last end of summer double-header drink for the road

Tonic the Cat > Toxie in the Vat
But hey, no one's keeping score here...
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BAKER'S DOZEN: A 13-Film Joe Don & Dessert Foods Tribute Carbo-loading with the recently deceased Texas "tough guy" character actor

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Summer Screen & Stream, Weekend 14: NOBODY 2 & EENIE MEANIE Eenie meanie miney mo, catch an Odenkirk by the toe

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