Jay Seaver

@jayseaver.bsky.social

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I watch and write about movies, obsess over the Red Sox, take 3D pictures, and wish certain things had been cooler when I was 13. He/him. www.jaysmovieblog.com, https://letterboxd.com/JaySeaver/, https://www.pillowfort.social/JaySeaver

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Wordle 1,127 4/6* 🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Was tempted to see if "shart" was in the word list at one point. Strands #139 “A seat at the table” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵🔵 Usually go for the spanner earlier Connections Puzzle #405 🟦🟦🟩🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Eh, okay Par 5 Letter Boxed in 3

I know "take him out" probably means the 25th Amendment, and the idea of either of these two pulling a gun in the Oval Office is ludicrous, but it comes anyway.

My favorite part abt the Failson convincing Dad to pick Vance is that 1) he's dumb as a stick, and 2) he convinced Dad that the Deep State would have Rubio take him out, apparently not remotely concerned that Vance's handlers are FAR more likely to demand that Vance take Trump out.

On the blog: #FantasiaFest 2024.02 featured CONFESSION and THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO. It's funny that movies can seem to be skipping things and stretching whether 76 or 178 minutes (both are good movies) www.jaysmovieblog.com/2024/07/fant... #KokuhakuConfession #TheCountOfMonteCristo #filmsky

Fantasia 2024.02: Confession '24 and The Count of Monte Cristo '24www.jaysmovieblog.com I'm not going to reference Fantasia vs Fantasia here every time I hit one of its bits other than to say that, at a certain point, I was con...

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Alt-text, when done both accurately and with style, is a work of art.

You got it, sister

On the blog: #FantasiaFest 2024.01 featured SWIMMING IN A SAND POOL, "98%", and 4PM. www.jaysmovieblog.com/2024/07/fant... #SwimmingInASandPool #4pm #filmsky

Fantasia 2024.01: Swimming in a Sand Pool, "98%", and 4pmwww.jaysmovieblog.com So here's the thing, or at least a thing, about coming up to Montreal for the full length of the Fantasia International Film Festival: Bo...

Wordle 1,126 X/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 Ugh, but it happens.. Strands #138 “And the Oscar goes to ...” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Don't usually trust short answers Connections Puzzle #404 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Pretty quick.

Next Week in Tickets for 19-25 July: TWISTERS, ODDITY, WIDOW CLICQUOT, NATIONAL ANTHEM, CUSTOMS FRONTLINE, 3 from India open at Boston 'plexes, with CRUMB CATCHER at the Alamo. (I'm out of town, but you guys have fun)

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no baseball again today. complete bullshit.

Well heck.

Awww jeez. Not many people get to headline two giant sitcoms. He was good enough to make it look easy.

Bob Newhart, Dean of the Deadpan Delivery, Dies at 94www.hollywoodreporter.com A former accountant, he became an overnight sensation with the release of a 1960 live comedy album, then starred in a pair of fabled CBS sitcoms.

Wordle 1,125 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Uhhh.. Oh! Strands #137 “At your fingertips” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Really testing my "try not to look down because it wouldn't be there if you were solving on paper" rule Connections Puzzle #403 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟪🟪 🟪🟦🟪🟪 Oof. Par 6 Letter Boxed in 4

The Red Sox just sent the 2025 schedule, and I scratched my head at "ATH" before realizing that they apparently aren't going to treat the Athletics as if they have a home city - it's neither OAK nor SAC nor LV.

Montreal: You may be in a modest hotel in a modest neighborhood, but you look out the window and there's art.

My flight is running half an hour late, but that just means there's less time between when I arrive and when I can check into my hotel. And, bonus, they put me in an exit row with leg room without paying an upgrade fee.

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On the blog: A perhaps unconventional curtain-raiser for #FantasiaFest as we look at all the places where one must choose one movie or the other without the option of another screening, or "Fantasia vs Fantasia"! www.jaysmovieblog.com/2024/07/fant...

Fantasia Vs Fantasia: 2024 Editionwww.jaysmovieblog.com I think I've written one of these curtain-raiser articles in my twenty years or so of blogging about movies, mostly because in the days & we...

Heck yes.

In October, @markwaid.bsky.social and I (with @matlopes.bsky.social on colors) will be bringing you BATMAN AND ROBIN: YEAR ONE! This is obviously a dream book for me, and I’m so, SO excited to be collaborating with Mark again. I can’t wait to share more with you all!!!🦇🪺

Wordle 1,124 3/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Honestly, you shouldn't do this on guess three. Strands #136 “Park place” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Sure. Connections Puzzle #402 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟪🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟩🟩🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 It's a screw you, purple day. Par 6 Letter Boxed in 4 🍋 Squeezy #169 🍋 Wheezy Mode EZ: 😎 🍋 PZ: 😎 🍋 LS: 😎 🍋 Eh

I understand arguments that ANDOR or THE MANDALORIAN are better #StarWars shows than #TheAcolyte, but it is awful good and definitely the most Star Wars-y, which that counts for a lot in my book. Anyway, let's have a second season and more wuxia-inspired Star Wars in general.

Love that Papi apparently is still all about beating the Yankees years after he has retired. #RedSox

Most of the time, being delivered a large pizza rather than a small is a highlight of the week, but I go on vacation Thursday! I do not have time for leftovers!

I'm glad the MLB draft still has enough rounds that this happens, although I suspect if they had a chance of making the bigs, the Blue Jays would have drafted them ten rounds earlier. www.mlb.com/redsox/news/...

Next generation: Sox draft Big Papi's son, Angels take Ramirez's kidwww.mlb.com BOSTON -- Could you imagine? It’s the question Baseball Hall of Famer and Boston legend David Ortiz asked three years ago when presented with the idea that one day his son D’Angelo might also end up w...

Just turned on the All-Star Game, and, like, I'm not one to complain about this, but those uniforms, especially for the American League, are hideous. I see why Devers opted not to be seen in them.

Wordle 1,123 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Eh, okay. Strands #135 “Were you raised in a barn?” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵🔵 Cute. Connections Puzzle #401 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Unconventional! 🍋 Squeezy #168 🍋 Wheezy Mode EZ: 😎 🍋 PZ: 😎 🍋 LS: 😎 🍋 Ehhh…

I did not realize how they were doing the Vourdalak and boy, was that a fun surprise! My ★★★★ review of The Vourdalak (2023) on @letterboxd.social : boxd.it/6TaR15 #filmsky

Review of ‘The Vourdalak’ (2023) ★★★★boxd.it Huh. I saw an animated short version of this story at Fantasia just a couple years ago ( www.jaysmovieblog.com/2022/08/fantasia-202217-island-of-lost-girls.html#VRDLKReview ), and there have been…

OK, "Thomas M. Menino High School" is way more Actually Boston than I was expecting from #OrphanBlackEchoes Still no way all that gets built even in 50 years, though.

I get a kick out of #OrphanBlackEchoes taking place in 2055 Boston, but every week I'm also like "man, how did that much new construction happen in just 30 years?" I suspect I'll laugh like crazy if they ever get on the subway.

On the blog: PROJECT SILENCE has a good high-concept - folks trapped on a bridge with military monster dogs! - but the cast doesn't quite jell into a group that the audience is actively pulling for. www.jaysmovieblog.com/2024/07/proj... #ProjectSilence #filmsky #KFilm

Project Silencewww.jaysmovieblog.com So, I knew that the MBTA would be running shuttle buses instead of the Red Line starting this weekend, but seeing that Magoun Square station...

It's probably not the most widely-loathed form of pop-up ad, but the one that appears while I'm trying to solve a crossword with a timer running is not one that makes me think well of the goods or services involved.

Sure, we all know these maps are always wishcasting by lobbying groups, but let me at least imagine for a bit. (Like the Boston-Montreal line, but it's kind of odd that the route from New York to Chicago is kind of roundabout, right?)

Want www.newsweek.com/us-high-spee...

US high-speed rail map shows proposed routeswww.newsweek.com The U.S. High Speed Rail Association advocacy group is proposing a new high-speed rail network linking major American cities.

Well, heck. Both that and the diner it replaced were regular breakfast spots when I was living in Harvard Square. Hopefully it's too good a location to be empty for long.

Closing alert -- Zoe's in Harvard Square has closed. bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2024/07/zoes... #cambridge #restaurant #diner #harvardsquare

Zoe's in Cambridge's Harvard Square Has Closedbostonrestaurants.blogspot.com It looks like a Cambridge diner that offered a mix of Greek and American fare has shut down. According to a poster within the Friends of Bos...

The entertainment industry's determination to make new TERMINATOR things despite the general public's repeated demonstrations of indifference to new TERMINATOR things is really something to behold.

Terminator Zero – Watch the teaser for the new anime show here bit.ly/3LJ8pp3 #TerminatorZero #TheTerminator #anime #cartoon #scifi #Terminator #TimothyOlyphant #Netflix #JudgmentDay #TV