Holmes Movies Podcast

Welcome to the third episode of The Movies And Me, a new podcast project of ours where each episode we sit down and talk with a filmmaker or someone who works in the film industry about their newest and latest film project or just a big cinephile in general who just lives for movies. We also ask about and discuss their four favourite films that have inspired them to go out and have a career in film or just at the very least inspire them.On this episode, we are delighted to chat with Edward Randell, Adam's best friend from school and childhood. Edward is a singer, songwriter and a freelance vocalist. He has performed in some of the most well know venues and studios in the world, like for instance Wembley Arena and Abbey Road. He began his music career with the Voice Messengers in France and from 2012 to 2022, he sang and performed with The Swingles. He has also sung backing for artists such as Coldplay, Sam Smith and David Byrne. Edward is no stranger to the world of film. Some of you may recognise him as Justin Finch-Fletchley from Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets. He has also regularly recorded as a session singer on other films which include No Time To Die, Cruella, Raya and The Last Dragon, The Marvels, Doctor Strange, Don't Look Up, the Jurassic World series and The Conjuring 2. He even co-wrote a song that was used in the film Downsizing starring Matt Damon.Edward has also released two EPs, Mapmaker was released in 2020, and he has a new debut album coming out on May 17th called 'Homing Instinct'. The album is co-produced with Chris Hyson. If you live in and around the London area, there is a launch event for the album at the Crazy Coqs on the 21st of May. You can find tickets here.You can follow Edward Randell on Instagram and you can check out his music on Bandcamp!We had so much fun talking to Edward and hearing what his four favourite films are. We hope you enjoy the episode.Follow the Holmes Movies Podcast on here on Instagram and Linktree to subscribe and follow the podcast.We are sponsored by Magic Mind on this episode - the world's first mental performance shot! We recommend you to try it out. Click the link here: https://www.magicmind.com/holmes and get up to 48% off your subscription for the next 10 days with the code: HOLMES20.Listen to and check out all the episodes we recommended to each other during the Covid Lockdown here on Letterboxd.Also check us out on Letterboxd!AndersAdam

Welcome to our 2nd episode of our Trilogies series. We hope you enjoyed our last episode where we looked at the original Star Wars trilogy. On this episode, we are looking back at another childhood favourite of ours. This episode we will be looking at the original Toy Story trilogy from Pixar Animation Studios. We will not be discussing the 4th film from 2019, which Adam has not seen and probably will never see. The Toy Story films and story, for him, ended with 2010's Toy Story 3. As we did with our last episode, we discuss our favourites and least favourites of the three, who our favourite characters are and also we talk about what makes Pixars such an influential and brilliant company and why the majority of their films work so well with audiences. We hope you continue to enjoy this new Trilogies Series we're doing. Stay Tuned for more!We are sponsored by Magic Mind on this episode - the world's first mental performance shot! We recommend you to try it out. Click the link here: https://www.magicmind.com/holmes and get up to 56% off your subscription for the next 10 days with the code: HOLMES20.Follow us on our Instagram and (if you must) Twitter pages to stay tuned about updates.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we were recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic:Follow Anders on twitter.Follow Adam on twitter.Also check us out on Letterboxd!AndersAdamCheck out Anders's Letterboxd list where he ranks the films made and produced by Pixar.

We're back with a new podcast series. The Holmes Brothers Adam and Anders Holmes will be discussing film trilogies in this series of the Holmes Movies Podcast. On the first episode of this series, they will be discussing Star Wars: The Original Trilogy (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi). The prequel and sequel trilogy will have to maybe wait for another episode. Listen to the brothers discuss their favourite moments, their favourites and least favourites of the three films, favourite characters and why the trilogy is so influential and iconic.We hope you enjoy this new Trilogies Series we'll be doing. Stay Tuned for more!We are sponsored by Magic Mind on this episode - the world's first mental performance shot! We recommend you to try it out. Click the link here: https://www.magicmind.com/holmes and get up to 56% off your subscription for the next 10 days with the code: HOLMES20.Follow us on our Instagram and (if you must) Twitter pages to stay tuned about updates.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we were recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic:Follow Anders on twitter.Follow Adam on twitter.Also check us out on Letterboxd!AndersAdamRead recent film reviews by Anders Holmes here:The Fugitive

Welcome to our 27th Top 10 Episode where Anders & Adam Holmes list their top 10 favourite films of the 1920s.To close off this round/season of top 10 episodes, the Holmes Brothers have been going back and looking at each decade of cinema and listing their 10 favourite films of each decade (we won't be doing an episode of the 1910s).On this final episode, they are going to be looking at the 1920s.The 1920s was the silent movie era. Sound films, talkies, would dominate cinema in the next decade after the first talkie The Jazz Singer was released in 1927. There was a vast expansion of Hollywood movie making. Actors like Buster Keaton, Lillian Gish and Charlie Chaplin were household names. Romantic comedies, adventure films and horror were popular genres of this decade. German Expressionism and Soviet Montage Editing stylistically and aesthetically influenced and inspired films for years to come. A very artistic and surreal approach to filmmaking was happening over the Atlantic in Europe. Where will films like Nosferatu, The Battleship Potemkin and The Cabinet of Dr Caligari end up on their respected lists? Follow here to find out.We hope you have been enjoying these Top 10 Episodes. Stay Tuned for what we have got planned. We are sponsored by Magic Mind on this episode - the world's first mental performance shot! We recommend you to try it out. Click the link here: https://www.magicmind.com/holmes and get up to 56% off your subscription for the next 10 days with the code: HOLMES20.Follow us on our Twitter and Instagram pages to stay tuned about updates.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we have been recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic:Follow Anders on twitter.Follow Adam on twitter.Also check us out on Letterboxd!AndersAdamHere is Anders's full list on Letterboxd showing his favourite films of the 1920s!Read recent film reviews by Anders Holmes here:Dune: Part 2

It’s Awards Season yet again. Here on the Holmes Movies Podcast that means, it is time for the Alternative Oscars episodes! AKA the Anders and Adam-emy Awards: Each episode for this series we pick a different year in Oscars history and attempt to correct the record, stripping the undeserving of their garlands while recognizing those who were cruelly overlooked.This time, we will be casting our eye back to… the 22nd Academy Awards, the year that honoured the best films of 1949. It was held March 23rd 1950 at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California. It was hosted by actor Paul Douglas. The Heiress was the film with the most nominations, nominated for 8 Oscars and won 4 of them. Joseph L Mankiewicz won Best Director and Best Screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives. He would win those awards again the following year for All About Eve. But out of the films released that year, which ones deserved to win and/or get nominated? Listen here and find out who we would've picked. We are sponsored by Magic Mind on this episode - the world's first mental performance shot! We recommend you to try it out. Click the link here: https://www.magicmind.com/holmes and get up to 56% off your subscription for the next 10 days with the code: HOLMES20.Subscribe/Follow and check out the rest of the podcast!Listen to and check out all the episodes we recommended to each other during the Covid Lockdown here on Letterboxd.Follow us on Instagram!Also check us out on Letterboxd!AndersAdam

Episode Note: We just had to re-upload this episode again. There were audio issues due to a editing mistake in the export. We're sorry for the inconvenience and it should be fixed now. Welcome to the second episode of The Movies And Me, a new podcast project of ours where each episode we sit down and talk with a filmmaker or someone who works in the film industry about their newest and latest film project or just a big cinephile in general who just lives for movies. We also ask about and discuss their four favourite films that have inspired them to go out and have a career in film or just at the very least inspire them.On this second episode, Anders and Adam Holmes sit down with a bonafide and well read cinephile: the legendary and one of New York City's greatest treasures Richard Bruno, the greatest cinephile we know. Richard is a good family friend of Adam and his wife Lily Foster. It was an absolute pleasure to talk with him about how his love of film came about and he takes the Holmes Brothers on a real history tour about how television and movie houses played a part in Richard's life and his growin admiration and fascination with the world of film and basically cinephile.Follow us here on Instagram and Linktree to subscribe and follow the podcast.We are sponsored by Magic Mind on this episode - the world's first mental performance shot! We recommend you to try it out. Click the link here: https://www.magicmind.com/holmes and get up to 56% off your subscription for the next 10 days with the code: HOLMES20.Subscribe/Follow and check out the rest of the podcast!Listen to and check out all the episodes we recommended to each other during the Covid Lockdown here on Letterboxd.Also check us out on Letterboxd!AndersAdam

It’s Awards Season yet again. Here on the Holmes Movies Podcast that means, it is time for the Alternative Oscars episodes! AKA the Anders and Adam-emy Awards: Each episode for this series we pick a different year in Oscars history and attempt to correct the record, stripping the undeserving of their garlands while recognizing those who were cruelly overlooked.This time, we will be casting our eye back to… the 87th Academy Awards, the year that honoured the best films of 2014. It was held February 22nd 2015 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California. It was hosted by Barney Stinson himself Neil Patrick Harris. It was an event that was marred by slight controversy after the nominations were announced. The hashtags #OscarsSoWhite and #WhiteOscars circulated around the internet after that. This was an Oscars event we wanted to look at and change somethings, as we did not agree with certain films getting nominated and others that did not. It was the year of Birdman Vs Boyhood. Listen to the episode and find out how we would've done things.We are sponsored by Magic Mind on this episode - the world's first mental performance shot! We recommend you to try it out. Click the link here: https://www.magicmind.com/holmes and get up to 56% off your subscription for the next 10 days with the code: HOLMES20. Subscribe/Follow and check out the rest of the podcast!Listen to and check out all the episodes we recommended to each other during the Covid Lockdown here on Letterboxd.Follow us on Instagram!Also check us out on Letterboxd!AndersAdam

It’s Awards Season yet again. Here on the Holmes Movies Podcast that means, it is time for the Alternative Oscars episodes! AKA the Anders and Adam-emy Awards: Each episode for this series we pick a different year in Oscars history and attempt to correct the record, stripping the undeserving of their garlands while recognizing those who were cruelly overlooked.This time, we will be casting our eye back to… the 55th Academy Awards, the year that honoured the best films of 1982. It was held April 11th 1983 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. It had multiple hosts which included Richard Pryor and Walter Matthau. Sir Richard Attenborough's epic biopic Gandhi was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won 8, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor in a leading role for Sir Ben Kingsley who played Mahatma Gandhi. Subscribe/Follow and check out the rest of the podcast!Listen to and check out all the episodes we recommended to each other during the Covid Lockdown here on Letterboxd.We do talk about Ridley Scott's Blade Runner in this episode so do check out our Holmes Movies Recommends Episode on the film.Follow us on Instagram!Also check us out on Letterboxd!AndersAdam

It’s Awards Season yet again. Here on the Holmes Movies Podcast that means, it is time for the Alternative Oscars episodes! AKA the Anders and Adam-emy Awards: Each episode for this series we pick a different year in Oscars history and attempt to correct the record, stripping the undeserving of their garlands while recognizing those who were cruelly overlooked.This time, we will be casting our eye back to… the 83rd Academy Awards, the year that honoured the best films of 2010. It was held February 11th 2011 at the Kodak Theatre. Tom Hooper's The King's Speech was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won 4, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor in a leading role. It was also the second year in a row where the Oscars were being hosted by two hosts. It wasn't Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin who hosted the previous year, but it was Anne Hathaway and James Franco who had the honour to host the event together. This was a way to bring in the young crowd and boost the ratings up. Given the negative responses the ceremony got, they did not do such a good job with Anne Hathaway doing much of the heavy lifting. The night was also memorable for Melissa Leo dropping a surprise F-bomb, a first for an Oscars event.Subscribe/Follow and check out the rest of the podcast!Listen to and check out all the episodes we recommended to each other during the Covid Lockdown here on Letterboxd. Follow us on Instagram!Also check us out on Letterboxd!AndersAdam