Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I missed the all-kirby show there but have seen some others-seeing the original artwork up close is always amazing (especially, for me, the collages.) I like the way the floppies look too but sometimes recoil at the way they're reprinted in the collections. 000
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026You and me both, brother. If Kubrick ever commented on it I never heard about it, 210
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026now listening: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkgj...youtube.comB- Side Wins Again (2005)YouTube video by DJ Spooky - Topic 020
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Our Happy Days would be 2006, Fonzie would dress like, uh, Eminem? 131
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Very different creators (though both fairly cosmic.) I like both of them the best when the narrative is right on the edge of collapsing into abstraction. I’d love too see Morrison take a swing at OMAC. 110
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 11/10/2026My preference for new collections of either would be boxes of high quality, square bound reprints of each of the floppies with well-designed flow charts plotting out multiple pathways through the mega-story. (If anyone is asking.) 010
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The interconnected series that actually do assemble into a complete narrative (one that also features Mister Miracle) was Grant Morrison & the firm of Williams, Bianchi, Stewart, Sook, Irving, & Grey's 7 Soldiers of Victory. 210
Reposted by Rodney AscherGraham Reznick @grahamreznick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Tuesday 10-13-26 please be prepared 👂 034
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Well, it IS his kryptonite after all. But plenty of folks have figured out interesting things to do with him for a long time. Did you see Russel/Allred’s Space Age? 110
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026If only he had some sort of kryptonite, perhaps the fact that he just cares too much? 110
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Lucas with Lid off music video / Songs from the Second Floor / Stranglove on stage w/Coogan / Death of Stalin 011
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026It felt like it won (lost?) the Shirley Jackson Lottery / Wicker Man / Midsummer ritual cinematic sacrifice but already the tide is turning. DOZENS of us are here for it. 140
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Idly checking the Grove's Vista Vision screenings of DIGGER (for reasons) and they're packed. SOMETHING IS HAPPENING. 3110
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Hot take: Kirby’s 4th World was cancelled prematurely, but it wasn’t so much unfinished as it was designed to be open-ended. To me, it reads as more of an original, interconnected comic universe than an epic graphic novel. FWIW, Mister Miracle for the win. 130
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026static.klipy.comIm A Believer MonkeesALT: Im A Believer Monkees 010
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026wow! Curious about the VV but it's hard for me to imagine it looking better than it did at the Chinese... 010
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026100% - it fires on all cylinders, the script, the cast, the editing, the (GVSB!) score… 100
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026static.klipy.comBurt Lancaster Salutes in Run Silent Run DeepALT: Burt Lancaster Salutes in Run Silent Run Deep 010
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Status report: leaning strongly towards seeing Digger again in IMAX tomorrow, I don't think I'l get another change for a good long while (alhough I'm confident contrarians will brute-force this thing into a cult-classic eventually.)static.klipy.comDigger 2026ALT: Digger 2026 150
Reposted by Rodney AscherAaron is Unsustainable @aaron.wrotkowski.ca · 06/10/2026Yeah that was the best film of the year. Highly recommended. I truly believe the bad press on it is due to critics who need catharsis and Digger refuses to provide it. 131
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hopefully the 4K will include a few hours of deleted scenes and alt endings filmstories.co.uk/news/digger-...filmstories.co.ukDigger spoilers | The missing shovel, and the ending changed at the last minuteWith spoilers, a look at the fascinatingly odd Digger, the missing shovel, and glimpses of a very different ending not in the finished film. 000
Reposted by Rodney AscherRio Dylan Hernandez @riodylan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026the #DIGGER hive has assembled 🫡indiewire.comDear ‘Digger’ Detractors: This Tom Cruise Masterpiece Will Stand the Test of TimeAlejandro González Iñárritu's 'Digger' is another Tom Cruise masterpiece like 'Eyes Wide Shut' or 'Magnolia' that will stand the test of time. 041
Reposted by Rodney AscherTim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Niche grievance: Restaurants referring to “proteins” is anti-life and reduces food in its infinite variety to a macronutrient delivery vehicle and the person eating it to a macronutrient conversion mechanism 5919
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Co-sign 100%. It may claw its way back to cult classic some day but folks should seize the day to see it in IMAX which won't last long. Real talk: it's a better use of the Large Format process than the Odyssey or Oppenheimer. 060
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Obvs Im a big Kaufman fan (and he was likely an influence on this one) but sadly havent read it yet (or seen Get a Life) 110
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Great choice, I really (pardon the phrase) dug it. Has real Songs From the Second Floor energy (via, Death of Stalin w/a dash of, uh, Wrong is Right.) Glad I saw it on an enormous imax screen. 110
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Want www.latimes.com/entertainmen...latimes.comWhy Ed Ruscha made the poster for Tom Cruise's 'Digger': 'The movie blew my hair back'Tom Cruise, Jesse Plemons and John Goodman — stars of Alejandro González Iñárritu's 'Digger' — attended the LACMA unveiling of a new film poster by Ed Ruscha. 230
Reposted by Rodney AscherRio Dylan Hernandez @riodylan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026well it was bound to happen 🤷♀️ 093
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Oh wait, saw your thread. All fair, though I liked it more than you. Seeing it at the Chinese IMAX helped push it over the top on aesthetics alone but I was consistently engaged and surprised by where it went. I also thought it was very funny. 110
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Roy Andersson’s Dr Strangelove? I LOVED IT!! What did you think? 110
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Either way, you can't go wrong. I need to see Primetime / Concrete / Nathan + Lance V Liz: Dawn of Justice / Musk / Facebook 2 & Whalefall this month but Digger in Imax at the Chinese is singing its siren song. 120
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026On repeat: youtu.be/glynTpbhtdIyoutu.bePigface - NutopiaYouTube video by Ralu Boon 120
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Don’t forget his wife, Candy Jones and what they uncovered when he hypnotically regressed her. 111
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Haha, me too. Maybe do a one off screening, make it an event? 110
Rodney Ascher @rodneyascher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I dunno… Digger looks kind of…uh…good? Like Wrong is Right via The Trial? With a dollop of Songs from the Second Floor.static.klipy.comDucking SeveranceALT: Ducking Severance 120