Juwan Holmes

3 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Juwan Holmes

★★★½ I had only seen Batman Forever in parts on cable or TV; I loved Tim Burton’s Batman and The Dark Knight is still my favorite film of all time so regardless of the general consensus, I knew it would be hard for this to live up to those. In reality, it’s always been unfair to even compare this to any of the others. Batman Forever is a pure comic book movie by comic book enthusiasts that is as fun (and messy) as comic book movies should be. There is not much else to say about the starring...

4 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Juwan Holmes

★★ As disappointing as it is to have a film about such an exciting and complex figure turn out to be a dull and convoluted mess, it is much more frustrating that somehow in the last 15 minutes of Radioactive, rather than any of the first 100, the potential somewhat comes together for this movie. I am sure there is some joke or allegory to radiation to be made from that, but it would be on about the same low level of intrigue as the plot and setting of most of the movie itself is. The biggest...

1 month ago | letterboxd.com | Juwan Holmes

★½ “It’s not about you, Bobby. It’s about me.”…Could’ve fooled me.

1 month ago | letterboxd.com | Juwan Holmes

★★½ “…but I hope that people can see me for who I really am.” A decent Hollywood attempt at a Golden Age of Porn biopic, Lovelace is clearly a surface level swipe at the complexities of the life and times of Linda Lovelace, with beautiful shots and a good looking cast. But it is beyond underwhelming in nearly every other department: story, accuracy, background, creativity, commentary, personality, depth. It’s not until the middle of the movie that it stops hinting at the obvious abuse,...

1 month ago | letterboxd.com | Juwan Holmes

★★★★½ This is what a film by Marquis de Sade would’ve been. Or, what every episode of Euphoria should feel like.