Eric Vilas-Boas

One of the first shows I ever recapped (back in, erm, 2007) came out of retirement, so I did too.

Sure seems like the President of the United States is going to pardon a convicted sex trafficker and serial abuser who ran a pedophilia ring with his best friend in the whole wide world.

*King of the Hill* Makes Its Triumphant Return With Bobby running a restaurant in Dallas and dating an SMU coed, the most Dallas show ever gets even more Dallas on August 4.

Incredibly, despite having written about television for 30 years, I have never written an entire piece about King of the Hill. I rectified that here. Special emphasis is given to the Dallas connections. www.dmagazine.com/arts-enterta...

He is personally responsible for killing millions of people by taking a chainsaw to programs that provided food and medicine to impoverished people.

Kids, Pay Attention to David Lynch’s G-Rated Disney Movie The Straight Story’s Lynchian impulse to raise provocative questions can help your smart teen start thinking about how they want to live their life.

"Once Alvin is on the road, the purpose for his voyage slips away and The Straight Story becomes an exploration of happenstance and humanity."

a lovely paean to THE STRAIGHT STORY by @matthewschnipper.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/the-...

troubling reporting about how power works in doc world—where Nat Geo has a lot of weight to throw around amidst scarce resources (took me back to my first time at Camden, the big premiere Nat Geo doc on the festival’s opening night, a little red Nat Geo-branded Cousteau hat was on every seat)

Sure smells like the Nat Geo Society self-censored one of its own movies in the wake of anti-DEI nonsense. Truly depressing read for lovers of Banff Film Fest and outdoors docs in general.

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging:

this is SO exciting. congrats y'all!

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It would be extremely dangerous to disband this unit that failed to stop the mass shooting, the incumbent mayor says.

If his opponent is elected, the incumbent mayor says, then we might have shootings like the one that just occurred on the incumbent mayor's watch.

Saying this with as much love as possible, but please stop using AI generated graphics for activism. Plenty of artists willingly donate their time and work designing for activists, and always have. It's not necessary to step on an increasingly struggling group in order to promote worthy causes.

Detail of the Hungarian release poster for Dalias Idok (Heroic Times)

Still from the film Heroic Times, featuring a knight on horseback

Still from the film Heroic Times, featuring a character kneeling before a king

Still from the film Heroic Times, featuring a scene on a battlefield

The Animation at War season at the Barbican is expanding!

In October, we're screening József Gémes's medieval epic, HEROIC TIMES.

This is a glorious painted masterpiece of Hungarian animation, and to our knowledge this is the first time the film has been screened in the UK.

an argument that i did not make in here but i do fully believe is that if you're the kind of parent who wants your kids to have Good Taste in Art, you gotta also let them watch some real trash

taste doesn't come through restricted access to a pre-curated list, it comes through Trying Shit

hootin and hollerin at this essay

"When media companies quiet or subordinate voices that meet art where it happens—that lend it the spark of life on the page, that kindle artistic fervor in readers—a decline in enthusiasm for the arts, and for arts journalism, becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."

D.C. lawmakers strike a new compromise on tipped minimum wage with final budget vote The D.C. Council approved capping planned increases to the tipped minimum wage after a lengthy debate on the matter. This was the most controversial part of the 2026 budget.

DC residents have TWICE passed a measure eliminating the tipped wage and yet the council has yet again undone their votes wamu.org/story/25/07/...

Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki didn't start as the artists they became. Surviving the brutal world of TV anime in the '70s changed them and their style.

They made classics like Heidi and Anne of Green Gables and found their own paths, as we explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-pressu...

would bet they used ChatGPT to write the statement in the first place

lots of quotable lines in this, but that may be my fave. Brody cooked

In Defense of the Traditional Review Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.

"Even as a review confronts a work’s commercial role, it also embodies the opposite—a work’s potential vastness, the possibly overwhelming and transformative impact of a single viewing or listening." www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight A love letter to music listings

In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Thinking of trying this approach with my students:

Ask them first: Would you say that you're a better or worse writer than the average person writing stuff online?

Then tell them: If you're a better writer than the average person on the internet, using AI will probably make you worse.

It's from Kentaro Waki (x.com/HiconManiacs). Dude's an absolute maniac when it comes to recreating cel-era visuals. He sometimes tweets about his work. Looks like the kind of line filtering used on stuff like DBS Broly where the lines break up a bit and you can add edges to shading.

My most boomer take: Make phone calls.

Was having a stressful day until I got an outta-nowhere fun call from a pal. 14 minutes and I feel better! Phone your people.

A 'Redskin' Is the Scalped Head of a Native American, Sold, Like a Pelt, for Cash

I remember commissioning this story from my friend @baxterholmes.bsky.social 11 whole years ago. It is not a complex decision when you know any history at all. And now Trump is trying basically criminalize being against this racism.

www.esquire.com/news-politic...

This is the type of campaign you run to beat guys like Trump and the absolute boobs in the DNC are like “no, you have to say that you are gonna give a 1.5% tax break on people opening cold pressed juice stores in disadvantaged communities”

The governing party of the United States is trying to cover-up evidence that Trump sexually abused minors so that he can continue trying to implement fascism.

Imagine how fucking depraved you have to be to do such a thing.

it isn’t hyperbole, donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than any president in american history

Previously, from the same reporters

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

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