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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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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · Jan 1

Pinning some 2025 goals:

* At least one #FilmRolls blog per week, helping to get through the Blu-ray backlog
* > 400 seen on @letterboxd.social
* Do at least one maker-mart thing with ViewMaster reels
* Christmas-set Jazz Age body-swap ebook by Christmas

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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 2h

I just backed Ruthie Joins a Death Cult on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/rut...

Ruthie Joins a Death Cult

How far would you go to make friends? Make our scrappy indie film dreams come true!

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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 4h

Not the movie I expected and, honestly, it should have been.

Review of #RowToWin on @letterboxd.social: letterboxd.com/jayseaver/fi...

#filmsky #Moviesky

A ★★★ review of Row to Win (2025)

This has the shape of an uplifting drama but is curiously empty, like the filmmakers have a list of the sort of scenes that have moved them in other movies and have put them together in a way that pas...

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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 8h

Vulture Cinematrix No. 568: Oct 15, 2025
I got 9/9 Correct
Score: 2665 (top 2%)

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Yeah, pretty good

Daily Walkoff ⚾️
Red Sox #411

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Yep

Completed Cinematrix - rows Susan Sarandon, Christopher Walken, Danny Glover; columns Oscar nom, contains "the" 1980-1999

Row 1: Lorenzo's Oil (5%), The Company You Keep (1%), Dead Man Walking (5%)
Row 2: Catch Me If You Can (19%), The Prophecy II (2%), The Prophecy (3%)
Row 3: Maverick (1%), Jumanji: The Next Level (7%), Bopha! (1%)

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 8h

Movie Pyramid - 10/15/2025:
10/10 Correct
Score: 1191 (top 18%)

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www.moviepyramid.io

Wonder what a couple less obvious Ruffalos would have done

Movie Snake - 10/15/2025:
9/9 Correct
Score: 1298 (top 15%)

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www.moviesnake.io

Fine

Completed Movie Pyramid

Row 1 (Laura Linney/2 words): The Savages (9.7%)
Row 2 (Mark Ruffalo/1 word): Spotlight (25%), The Avengers (32.9%)
Row 3 (Joseph Gordon-Levitt/1990-2025): The Walk (1.8%), Brick (5%), Premium Rush (2.8%)
Row 4 (Nicole Kidman/1990-2025): Holland (1%), The Stepford Wives (3.1%), The Peacemaker (0.9%), The Interpreter (1%)

Completed Movie Snake - Amy Adams/Forest Whitaker and...

1 word: Species (1.8%)
2015-2025: Hillbilly Elegy (5.4%)
4+ words: Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (11.8%)
2005-2015: Leap Year (3.2%)
$100M+: Batman v Superman (6.3%)
Oscar nom: The Last King of Scotland (11%)
1995-2005: Psycho Beach Party (2%)
2 words: Justice League (6.4%)
Real Person: Hillbilly Elegy (7.3%)

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 8h

#Worldle #1363 (15.10.2025) 3/6 (100%)
🔥 Current Win Streak: 3 days
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Okay

nerdlegame 1365 3/6

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Nice

Movie Grid - 10/15/2025:
9/9 Correct
Score: 2547 (top 25%)

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www.moviegrid.io

Okay, not super-clever

Completed Movie Grid - rows Adam Driver, Jennifer Garner, Joaquin Phoenix; columns character name, A-H, 2005-2025

Row 1: Inside Llewyn Davis (7.2%), House of Gucci (24.7%), 65 (8.9%)
Row 2: Daredevil (19.1%), Elektra (19.7%), Deadpool & Wolverine (20.3%)
Row 3: Beau Is Afraid (16.1%), Her (34.8%), You Were Never Really Here (6.5%)

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 8h

Minute Cryptic - 15 October, 2025
"Volatile element or source of vitamin C?" (5,4)
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🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (53,080 solvers so far).
www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Came quick

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 8h

Par 6 Letter Boxed in 2 (and "quoting grawlix" is not entirely a nonsense phrase)!

🟠 Align 10/15/2025
⏰ 00:53
🔄 13
globe.com/align

Pretty fair

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Wheezy Mode
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ImSqueezy.com

Not too tough

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 8h

Wordle 1,579 5/6*

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Whew

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2:07

Looks harder than it is

Strands #591
“Going up?”
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Super-quick

Connections
Puzzle #857
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Thought I was clever as I started, but, nah

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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 19h

I recognize that picking up egg nog at the supermarket in September/October makes me part of the holiday creep problem and I do not care.

WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 19h

EGG NOG

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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 19h

Dang, I don't think I even opened the umbrella I just left in the movie theater once before losing it.

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 19h

Tonight's fun end credit on ROW TO WIN: "Surprise Appearance" for a guy who seems to do enough of these cameos in Chinese movies that it's not really a surprise.

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John Gholson @gholson.bsky.social · 1d

Doctors at John Hopkins say the President suffers from “Sexy Librarian Bending Over to Pick Up a Book Neck”

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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d

As much as this was probably an acceptable outcome, I feel like these guys worship success and growth enough (but are completely siloed from reality) that he really thought he was making a better, more appealing paper, since it's more like the one he wants.

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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d

Heck of a thing to watch in a Boston theater with a bunch of Chinese folks whose parents sent them here for college cheering, though.

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Mike Maihack @mikemaihack.com · 1d

Day 14: RETRO 🕹️

#SuperBatober #Inktober #inktober2025

SUPERBATOBER 14: RETRO -- Babs (Batgirl) is scoring high on a classic Super TRON arcade machine! Kara (Supergirl) flies in to check things out, a red light trail trailing behind her. Meanwhile, Streaky is curiously checking out the magical sparking happening behind the arcade's wiring.

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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d

⚾️ Immaculate Grid 926 6/9:
Rarity: 375
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Play at:
immaculategrid.com/play

Quit to go to work

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d

Vulture Cinematrix No. 567: Oct 14, 2025
I got 8/9 Correct
Score: 2259

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Did I try to get cute with Texas Chainsaw Massacre? You know I did!

Daily Walkoff ⚾️
Red Sox #410

"Lucky 8s"
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Dang, what's Smead Jolley's story?

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d

Movie Pyramid - 10/14/2025:
10/10 Correct
Score: 1217 (top 23%)

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Huh, just okay for no top choices

Movie Snake - 10/14/2025:
9/9 Correct
Score: 1323 (top 13%)

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www.moviesnake.io

No, I will not yield to The Godfather

Completed Movie Pyramid

Row 1 (Charlie Day/2010-2025): Honey Don't! (6.7%)
Row 2 (Jack Black/3+ words): Kung Fu Panda 4 (7.4%), Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny (9%)
Row 3 (Will Smith/A-H): Emancipation (3.2%), After Earth (9.3%), Gemini Man (5.9%)
Row 4 (Emma Stone/2010-2025): Bugonia (4.6%), Cruella (3.3%), The House Bunny (3.1%), Kinds of Kindness (6.2%)

Completed Movie Snake - Al Pacino/Diane Keaton and...

1 word: Scarecrow (1.7%)
2 words: Baby Boom (9.8%)
3+ words: Looking for Richard (1.9%)
Oscar nom: Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1.2%)
1970-1980: Scarecrow (1.6%)
Contains "the": The Irishman (5.9%)
1990-2010: Manhattan Murder Mystery (2.1%)
Double Letter: City Hall (0.6%)
2010-2025: Book Club: The Next Chapter (7.5%)

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d

Movie Grid - 10/14/2025:
9/9 Correct
Score: 2633 (top 8%)

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www.moviegrid.io

Pretty good

Movie Grid - Off Script 112:
4/9 Correct
Score: 1109

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Thought Hill was someone else entirely

Completed Movie Grid - rows Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Viggo Mortensen; columns Oscar nom, 2 words, 3+ words

Row 1: Thelma & Louise (11.7%), Cool World (4.5%), Legends of the Fall (5.2%)
Row 2: Lone Star (0.5%), Aeon Flux (1.3%), The Tragedy of MacMeth (6.4%)
Row 3: A History of Violence (8%), Eastern Promises (30.8%), The Dead Don't Hurt (2.1%)

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d

#Worldle #1362 (14.10.2025) 1/6 (100%)
🔥 Current Win Streak: 2 days
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Honestly thought the population would be higher, but I guess everyone commutes

nerdlegame 1364 4/6

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Fine

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d

Minute Cryptic - 14 October, 2025
"Townswomen wanting directions turned up for debate" (4)
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www.minutecryptic.com?utm_source=s...

Busy clue

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d

🟠 Align 10/14/2025
⏰ 01:08
🔄 13
globe.com/align

Pretty good

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Wheezy Mode
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ImSqueezy.com

A tricky bit

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d

Wordle 1,578 3/6*

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Pretty decent

Pips #58 Hard 🔴
6:02

Could've done better

Strands #590
“This & that”
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Oof

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“This & that”
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All about the same you figure out what to do with "anther"

Par 5 Letter Boxed in 3

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Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d

Better - clean solve in 11:49 for #Boswords week 2, the last couple minutes getting the SW corner right.

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d

(Sighs, turns around to go home, crosses fingers for the next few days)

Jay Seaver @jayseaver.bsky.social · 1d

Just heard "disabled train up ahead" on the Green Line, which is the same thing that kept me from ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER on Thursday, and I just don't know what the MBTA has against me seeing this movie in VistaVision.