Johann Rucker Pro

museum educator + analog photographer

Favorite films

  • Dune: Part Two
  • Signs
  • All Light, Everywhere
  • Soft & Quiet

All
  • The Meg

    ★★★

  • Cloverfield

    ★★★★

  • Godzilla Minus One

    ★★★★★

  • Do the Right Thing

    ★★★★★

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Zodiac Killer Project

2025

★★★★½ Liked Watched

SUNDANCE 2025, FILM NO. 13

Between this and David Osit's PREDATORS, Sundance '25 weirdly programmed two excellent documentaries about the consequences of consuming en masse any and all types of true crime drivel. Neither of these films is denigrating the work of the filmmakers or shaming the viewer, but each is examining how formulaic this cottage industry has always been and the potential for damage it has societally and psychologically.

And if things couldn't get more interesting for me, Charlie…

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

2024

★★★★ Liked 1

To paraphrase Meek Mill:

There's three types of people in life
People that make it happen
(Gromit)
People that watch it happen (Feathers McGraw)
And people that don't even know what the fuck is going on (Wallace)

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The Meg

2018

★★★ Liked Rewatched

Watched about 60% of this while eating a konbini breakfast of fried chicken and salmon onigiri. Still in Japan!

Godzilla Minus One

2023

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Watched (and then re-re-watched) this on a 13-hour flight to Tokyo, Japan. Greetings from the other side of the world, letterboxd friends!

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The King's Man

2021

★★½ 20

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga

2020

Watched

Let Pierce Brosnan sing, you cowards.