Gabe Bucsko

What’s Fair Is Fair: Why ‘The Legend of Billie Jean’ Is Still Invincible, 40 Years Later Helen Slater, Keith Gordon, Yeardley Smith, and Matthew Robbins tell IndieWire why a film that bombed is one of the true gems of '80s cinema.

Here’s the last month of my life: Why, 40 years later, THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN is still invincible. I got quotes from pretty much everybody, there are multiple Jon Peters stories involved, and I had an extremely unpleasant interaction with the screenwriter www.indiewire.com/features/int...

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Wes Anderson Explains the Darkness at the Heart of His Films Even as his style has become even more ornate, the subjects he’s been tackling feel increasingly political. See: his latest, The Phoenician Scheme.

I talked to Wes Anderson about his new film THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME and the darkness that has crept into his work in recent years. www.vulture.com/article/wes-...

16.05.2025 20:24 — 👍 155    🔁 42    💬 3    📌 11

Coming Out of the Closet Was a Liberation. Why Are Some Peeking Back In?

Okay. Let's try this again.

Here's a piece I wrote about Pee-wee Herman, the history and weaponization of the celebrity closet, and how cultural representations of closeted characters have changed over decades. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/t...

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We need someone to give Amber Ruffin and her writers a platform so we can hear what she had planned for the WHCA dinner. Until then, watch her perfect response to the cowards who run that organization. youtu.be/rUlTIeKeTVA?...

01.04.2025 02:36 — 👍 41    🔁 12    💬 4    📌 2

Here, via tonight's @latenightseth.bsky.social, is Amber Ruffin's reaction to the WHCA cancelling her: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUlT...

01.04.2025 01:32 — 👍 820    🔁 105    💬 20    📌 8

Career extra-base hit No. 800 for Andrew McCutchen is a no-doubter

30.03.2025 18:13 — 👍 27    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

How Ken Burns' “Shadow Ball” Connects Baseball's Past to Our Uncertain Future | Features | Roger Ebert To watch the fifth episode of Ken Burns' "Baseball" is to see exactly what makes the sport great as a metaphor for the country.

I've been wanting to write a piece about Ken Burns' BASEBALL for sometime.

For @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I wrote about the importance of the Negro Leagues history recorded in part five SHADOW BALL, especially when the government is erasing Jackie Robinson.

25.03.2025 14:14 — 👍 115    🔁 33    💬 2    📌 7

Starting this Monday, it’s time to podcast once more.

@scottrenshaw.bsky.social and I are teaming up for Mousterpiece Melodies, a new podcast all about the songs of Disney movies.

Our first episode is on the songs of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (and also the new film).

Get excited.

19.03.2025 21:31 — 👍 49    🔁 7    💬 10    📌 2

North Dakota Senate Rejects Measure Asking Supreme Court to Revisit Gay Marriage The resolution, which passed the North Dakota House, was part of a broader push by some conservatives to end the national right to same-sex marriage.

A very small piece of good news. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

13.03.2025 23:53 — 👍 178    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 2

a man and woman are dancing in a room with people sitting at tables . ALT: a man and woman are dancing in a room with people sitting at tables .

06.02.2025 19:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Presenting our Top Ten films of 2024. In honor of David Lynch, for whom words of analysis were somewhat inimical to cinema, we acknowledge that this magazine’s writing has only ever been an attempt at understanding that which we often cannot fully grasp.
reverseshot.org/features/329...

17.01.2025 20:28 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff

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We failed Furiosa, one of 2024’s best movies. Here’s why it will live forever Furiosa, George Miller's spectacular Mad Max: Fury Road prequel, deserved better from both audiences and critics.

We failed FURIOSA. www.digitaltrends.com/movies/furio...

23.12.2024 15:05 — 👍 161    🔁 39    💬 9    📌 5

Civilization is crumbling

16.08.2024 18:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm so sorry to hear this. Ned Comstock was a great help to me during my research for Pictures at a Revolution, pointing me toward material I never would have known to look for. So many film books are better because of his vast knowledge and the interest he took in writers and researchers. RIP.

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17.01.2024 07:37 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Remembering Abraham Polonsky on his birthday 🎂
📷 Scotty Welbourne, 1948
With John Garfield on the set of Force of Evil.
"Polonsky had made the real thing: an American movie that dissected capitalism."
- David Thomson
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05.12.2023 17:59 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0