Eric Vilas-Boas

with more folks on bluesky, a re-introduction! I'm an entertainment journalist, currently editing at Vulture. I cover streaming and animation, mostly, and I'm a big fan of physical media and old-school anime. Here are five recentish pieces I was happy with...

It’s vastly underated that one of the main reasons the far right hate Zelenskyy so much is he stayed & fought for what he believes in while they go from posting like this to fleeing the country within 48 hours

NEW: Remedy's latest game, Control Resonant, is filled with art galleries. The galleries are filled with real art When I began talking to Remedy about it, I was delighted to discover who the artists are: many are the game developers' parents My story... www.gamefile.news/p/control-re...

He's such a phony. His wife's name was Usha Chilukuri when they met. His in-laws names are Radhakrishna and Lakshmi Chilukuri. He was married in a Hindu ceremony presided over by a Hindu priest.

"Bolsonaro was told to surrender his passport over a criminal case in which the federal police are investigating him for possible involvement in a money-laundering scheme worth about £680m ($905m) involving betting companies."

Don Bluth, 89, reading on his template that Art Spiegelman is using AI. He chuckles: "Who's a thief now, you smug bastard"

The re:frame gang kindly asked me back to talk some more Knights of Guinevere! And damn, episode two hit me a good bit harder than the first. Thanks again to @rollinbishop.com, @kambole.bsky.social, and @thesaintoftous.bsky.social for having me again!

This is the ninth (9th) major profile of Emanuel since December 2024 that failed to mention Laquan McDonald.

beautiful tribute to one of the best (short! a compliment) cycling movies ever, animated or otherwise

if millennials could afford homes this wouldnt be a problem but this is going to hit the generation like a truck

NEW: I dug into public records behind a secretive $66 billion data center and found General Catalyst and an energy startup founded by Palantir alumni are spearheading the project. www.inc.com/sam-blum/mys...

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

Concept art by Yoshifumi Kondo for Grave of the Fireflies (1988), dir. Isao Takahata, Studio Ghibli

Hunters on some public lands in Alaska will be allowed to bait bears with doughnuts soaked in bacon grease before shooting them at close range, under a rule the Trump administration released Friday. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/c...

The most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.

We also got a story today about how people who worked on DOGE are making money off the data they stole. It's a self-reinforcing corruption machine they got going www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

As the foremost English-language expert on Shigeru Mizuki I am just going to recommend you all read this: www.tcj.com/the-life-and...

I wrote a little bit about the late, great Jim Knipfel in my appreciation of the paper we both wrote for, NYPress, when they ceased print publication in 2011. nymag.com/intelligence...

Nic Cage is a real one.

Ben Stiller and William Shatner's repartee at NYCC — a genuine delight www.vulture.com/article/will...

lol tell em nic

NEW: Tiny Chef is working on a new show! details from a raucous NYCC panel @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/tiny...

I'm at NYCC today and tmw! Here's my dispatch from the AVATAR: SEVEN HAVENS panel www.vulture.com/article/nycc...

Back in the AV Club reviewing Avatar: Seven Havens. And you know what? It’s good! www.avclub.com/avatar-seven...

And hey, we've got gift links now at Vulture/NYMag, so if you're not a subscriber, here's a paywall-free link to my column this week. Tell a friend! www.vulture.com/article/jimm...

I've been thinking a bit about Dana Walden's comments on Jimmy Kimmel last week. Even though I want to believe Disney will find a way to stay in the Kimmel business if he wants to continue, the reality is, that's hardly guaranteed. Latest BUFFERING at @vulture.com www.vulture.com/article/jimm...

microsoft did a throwback thursday

Is there one person in this administration—say, the person who changes the urinal cakes in the Agriculture Department men’s room—who is not shamelessly using their position to grift every dollar they can? Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news

Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”

ayiyiyiyi gift link: www.vulture.com/article/hbo-...

I went to Paramount studios today and asked David Ellison about his relationship with Trump and if he feels he has politicized the company. His response: "We were in a transaction review process. But with that said, we are now turning that page.” via @status.news www.status.news/p/david-elli...

If we have some kind of financial crisis, we’re going to be in deep shit www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

what a year, man www.vulture.com/article/para...

Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it.

The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.