Holmes Movies Podcast

Welcome to the ninth episode of The Movies And Me, a podcast project of ours where in each of these episodes we sit down with a filmmaker, writer, someone who works in the film industry or just someone who is a big cinephile who just lives for movies. We talk about their creative projects and also discuss their four favourite films that have inspired them to go out and have a career in film. Or four films that have least inspired them to seek out the career they have today.On this episode, the Holmes Brothers are joined by the cast and filmmakers behind the noir comedy (a dummy noir if you will) called The Dummy Detective. A Ventriloquist Murder Mystery. Anders & Adam Holmes sit down with Jonathan Geffner, Deborah Twiss and Ed Altman to talk about their wonderful and fun film that harkens back to Film Noir pictures made during the Golden Age of Hollywood. But portrayed and told with a unique and modern twist. The film is the brainchild of Jonathan Geffner, who stars in the film as Detective Van Trillo and wrote the film's screenplay. Deborah and Ed play the characters of Chloe Lake and Elliot Black. The Dummy Detective also features Hollywood acting legend: Sean Young. The film is set in an upstate New York inn, where a killer hides amongst a group of eccentric and strange guests staying at the Inn. All have their own secrets and chequered pasts. The ventriloquist detective Van Trillo and his dummy partner Sam Suede must race against time to find and unmask the killer. The Dummy Detective is a charming film that nicely blends the genres of the mystery thriller and film noir with dark comedy. The film is available to stream and watch on various sites, like Amazon, Tubi and Plex. You can find all the info on The Dummy Detective here by clicking this link. You can follow the film on Instagram and on YouTube. Also, do give Deborah and Ed a follow as well. We hope you enjoy this episode and also we hope you seek out The Dummy Detective and give it a watch. Be sure to check out our Monument Valley Film on our YouTube Channel.Anders's screenwriter work can also be seen at work in the horror, car chase thriller Delivery Run, co-written with & directed by Joey Palmroos. The film has been released digitally and also in select cinemas in the US and the UK. In Finland it was released on Apple TV after finishing its limited cinema run and was the Number 1 film for multiple weeks. You can read a review about it here on the Fangoria website. The film is now available to watch in the other Nordic territories like Sweden, Oslo and of course Denmark. If you live in Denmark, you can watch the movie here on Apple TV by clicking this link.Follow us on our Instagram page. For obvious reasons, we are no longer on Twitter. You won't find us there. Perhaps we will make a BlueSky account, so keep an eye out for that.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we were recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic.Check out our blog and read Anders's recent review/essay on the Psycho Franchise.Also check us out on Letterboxd too!AndersAdam

Hello!Anders Holmes is back with a new solo Anders Reviews. . . episode.Spooky Season is now in session, summer is over, the days are getting shorter and colder. It is the perfect time of the year to sit down and watch a horror film or two. Or many if you're a big horror nut, like Anders.On this episode, Anders reviews and discusses Ben Wheatley's 2011 film: Kill List. Kill List is a film that will surprise you in a big and spooky way. It starts off being one film and as it goes along, it goes into some dark and dangerous unpredictable territory. A scary film that relies on atmosphere and suspenseful feelings of dread more than gore and some demon appearing out of thin air. A tremendous and unique film, made by a unique and singular British filmmaker who has made both indie and big budget studio films. Kill List stars Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring and Michael Smile. Maskell and Smiley play Jay and Gal, two former soldiers who work as hitmen. Jay in particular is rattled by a job in Kiev that went very wrong and is dealing with financial problems. Problems that affect his hostile and unstable marriage with Shel, played by MyAnna Buring. She also starred in the great horror film The Descent. And... Lesbian Vampire Killers. A mysterious client hires Jay and Gal to perform a job, where there are multiple targets. As the job goes on, it starts to bear down on the troubled and broken Jay. And his fragile psyche becomes affected.Be sure to check out our Monument Valley Film on our YouTube Channel.Anders's screenwriter work can also be seen at work in the horror, car chase thriller Delivery Run, co-written with & directed by Joey Palmroos. The film has been released digitally and also in select cinemas in the US and the UK. In Finland it was released on Apple TV after finishing its limited cinema run and was the Number 1 film for multiple weeks. You can read a review about it here on the Fangoria website. The film is now available to watch in the other Nordic territories like Sweden, Oslo and of course Denmark. If you live in Denmark, you can watch the movie here on Apple TV by clicking this link.Follow us on our Instagram page. For obvious reasons, we are no longer on Twitter. You won't find us there. Perhaps we will make a BlueSky account, so keep an eye out for that.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we were recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic.Check out our blog and read Anders's recent review/essay on the Psycho Franchise.Also check us out on Letterboxd too!AndersAdam

Welcome to the nineteenth episode of our ongoing series: Fascism On Film. Each episode of this series, the Holmes Brothers look and review a film that has to do with fascism. During the episodes, the brothers look and see how the aspects and portrayal of fascism shown in the film relate to current and/or past events.On this Fascism on Film episode, the Holmes Brothers sit down to discuss Luchino Visconti's film from 1969: The Damned. A sweeping historical drama set in pre-war Nazi Germany. Events such as the Reichstag Fire and the Night of the Long Knives are featured in the film. The film boasts a big cast of actors that includes: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Umberto Orsini, Reinhard Kolldehoff and Helmut Berger. This was Helmut Berger's first big role and he was awarded a nomination for the Most Promising Newcomer - Male award at the Golden Globes. Regarded as the first film of Visconti's German Trilogy, The Damned is about a wealthy family of steel industrialists called The Essenbecks. Loosely based on the Kupp Family. The film showcases the rise of Nazism in Germany following the Reichstag fire and is told through the eyes of this family. Members of The Essenbeck family and those connected to them hunger for power and high status amongst this new regime. A dark and strange film that is grand in scope, but messily put and held together. A well acclaimed film that did garner an X rating and controversy at the time, for its sexual content. Aspects of the Night of the Long Knives sequence were removed from the film, however it was restored to the cut of The Damned that we have today. We hope you enjoy this episode and stay tuned for more episodes of this Fascism On Film series.Be sure to check out our Monument Valley Film on our YouTube Channel.Anders's screenwriter work can also be seen at work in the horror, car chase thriller Delivery Run, co-written with & directed by Joey Palmroos. The film has been released digitally and also in select cinemas in the US and the UK. In Finland it was released on Apple TV after finishing its limited cinema run and was the Number 1 film for multiple weeks. You can read a review about it here on the Fangoria website. The film is now available to watch in the other Nordic territories like Sweden, Oslo and of course Denmark. If you live in Denmark, you can watch the movie here on Apple TV by clicking this link.Follow us on our Instagram page. For obvious reasons, we are no longer on Twitter. You won't find us there. Perhaps we will make a BlueSky account, so keep an eye out for that.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we were recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic.Check out our blog and read Anders's recent review/essay on the Psycho Franchise.Also check us out on Letterboxd too!AndersAdam

Hello!Anders Holmes is back with a new solo Anders Reviews. . . episode.Spooky Season is now in session, summer is over, the days are getting shorter and colder. It is the perfect time of the year to sit down and watch a horror film or two. Or many if you're a big horror nut, like Anders.On this episode, Anders reviews and discusses Jeremy Saulnier's brilliant 2015 film: Green Room. Starring Imogen Poots, Sir Patrick Stewart and Anton Yelchin, in one of his last films roles before his tragic death in 2016. Green Room is Saulnier's intense and great follow-up to his magnificent revenge thriller Blue Ruin. Much like Blue Ruin, Green Room is a unique and subversive film, that represents the singular and gritty style of Jeremy Saulnier. Anton Yelchin's Pat is the bass player for a unknown punk band called the Ain't Rights. While struggling to find paid gigs on their badly planned tour, the Ain't Rights are given an offer for a gig at a Neo-Nazi skinhead club owned bar. It is located outside Portland, Oregon. After playing the gig, the band witness a brutal and vicious murder. They take shelter in the bar's green room, while the members of the Neo-Nazi skinhead group, led by Patrick Stewart's Darcy, try to break in and kill them all. It becomes a desperate and panic riddled fight for survival for the hapless members of the Ain't Rights. Be sure to check out our Monument Valley Film on our YouTube Channel.Anders's screenwriter work can also be seen at work in the horror, car chase thriller Delivery Run, co-written with & directed by Joey Palmroos. The film has been released digitally and also in select cinemas in the US and the UK. In Finland it was released on Apple TV after finishing its limited cinema run and was the Number 1 film for multiple weeks. You can read a review about it here on the Fangoria website. The film is now available to watch in the other Nordic territories like Sweden, Oslo and of course Denmark. If you live in Denmark, you can watch the movie here on Apple TV by clicking this link.Follow us on our Instagram page. For obvious reasons, we are no longer on Twitter. You won't find us there. Perhaps we will make a BlueSky account, so keep an eye out for that.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we were recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic.Check out our blog and read Anders's recent review/essay on the Psycho Franchise.Also check us out on Letterboxd too!AndersAdam

Welcome to the eighteenth episode of our ongoing series: Fascism On Film. Each episode of this series, the Holmes Brothers look and review a film that has to do with fascism. During the episodes, the brothers look and see how the aspects and portrayal of fascism shown in the film relate to current and/or past events.On this Fascism on Film episode, the Holmes Brothers sit down to discuss Jean-Luc Godard's sci fi tech noir film Alphaville, starring Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina and Akim Tamiroff. The film was released in 1965 and is something we would consider to be some of Godard's best work. It showcases the strengths and also some of the weaknesses of the iconic French New Wave filmmaker. Eddie Constantine plays the character of Lemmy Caution, a character created by English author Peter Cheyney. The character featured in many of Cheyney's books as an FBI Agent and then as a private detective. Lemmy travels to the futuristic city of Alphaville. He is a private-eye posing as a journalist. His mission is to find the missing agent Henry Dickson and to convince a Professor von Braun to come with him. The professor is actually Leonard Nosferatu and he has created a powerful computer/AI called Alpha 60. Alpha 60 has conceived the inhuman dystopian society of Alphaville. Aspects like love, conscience, poetry and even human emotion have been banished and words are systematically eliminated from the dictionary. Lemmy is assisted by Natacha von Braun, the professor's daughter. Despite Lemmy falling in love with Natacha, he is still steadfast on completing his mission in Alphaville.We hope you enjoy this episode and stay tuned for more episodes of this Fascism On Film series.Be sure to check out our Monument Valley Film on our YouTube Channel.Anders's screenwriter work can also be seen at work in the horror, car chase thriller Delivery Run, co-written with & directed by Joey Palmroos. The film has been released digitally and also in select cinemas in the US and the UK. In Finland it was released on Apple TV after finishing its limited cinema run and was the Number 1 film for multiple weeks. You can read a review about it here on the Fangoria website. The film is now available to watch in the other Nordic territories like Sweden, Oslo and of course Denmark. If you live in Denmark, you can watch the movie here on Apple TV by clicking this link.Follow us on our Instagram page. For obvious reasons, we are no longer on Twitter. You won't find us there. Perhaps we will make a BlueSky account, so keep an eye out for that.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we were recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic.Check out our blog and read Anders's recent review/essay on the Psycho Franchise.Also check us out on Letterboxd too!AndersAdam

Hello!Anders Holmes is back with a new solo Anders Reviews. . . episode.Spooky Season is now in session, summer is over, the days are getting shorter and colder. It is the perfect time of the year to sit down and watch a horror film or two. Or many if you're a big horror nut, like Anders.On this episode, Anders reviews and discusses Sir Alfred Hitchcock's classic and influential film from 1960: Psycho. Much like Peeping Tom released earlier that year, Psycho was one of those thrillers/horror films that helped lay the groundwork for what would become the slasher genre. John Carpenter's Halloween, for instance, owes a lot to Psycho. Along with talking about how Psycho was a tremendous film that left an enduring mark on cinema, Anders looks at the three sequels featuring Anthony Perkins's classic character Norman Bates. And the 1998 Psycho remake that was directed by Gus Van Sant. An almost shot-for-shot remake of the Hitchcock film. It uses the same Joseph Stefano screenplay and the same shot compositions. A truly cinematic experiment gone wrong. Nevertheless, the original Psycho was a groundbreaking film that subverted expectations and challenged the restrictions of the time, laid down by the Hays Code. A very taboo breaking film. Subscribe to the podcast and stay tuned for more horror themed solo episodes from Anders. The next one will be on the Psycho Franchise.Be sure to check out our Monument Valley Film on our YouTube Channel.Anders's screenwriter work can also be seen at work in the horror, car chase thriller Delivery Run, co-written with & directed by Joey Palmroos. The film has been released digitally and also in select cinemas in the US and the UK. In Finland it was released on Apple TV after finishing its limited cinema run and was the Number 1 film for multiple weeks. You can read a review about it here on the Fangoria website. The film is now available to watch in the other Nordic territories like Sweden, Oslo and of course Denmark. If you live in Denmark, you can watch the movie here on Apple TV by clicking this link.Follow us on our Instagram page. For obvious reasons, we are no longer on Twitter. You won't find us there. Perhaps we will make a BlueSky account, so keep an eye out for that.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we were recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic.Check out our blog and read Anders's recent review on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.Also check us out on Letterboxd too!AndersAdam

Welcome to the seventeenth episode of our ongoing series: Fascism On Film. Each episode of this series, the Holmes Brothers look and review a film that has to do with fascism. During the episodes, the brothers look and see how the aspects and portrayal of fascism shown in the film relate to current and/or past events.On this Fascism on Film episode, the Holmes Brothers sit down to discuss Archie Mayo's film Black Legion, starring one of their favourite actors Humphrey Bogart. This was in the early days of Bogart's career, and he wouldn't blow up as an actor and as a movie star until 1941 with High Sierra. He reunites with Archie Mayo who directed him in The Petrified Forest, for this hard-hitting drama set in the Midwestern parts of the United States. Frank Taylor (Bogart) is a blue collar factory worker who is expecting a promotion any day now. When he is passed over for a younger Polish immigrant, it takes a toll on Frank. He becomes bitter and mean. He is influenced to join a secret hate group called the Black Legion. Being part of the group alienates everyone from Frank. His family and friends. It all builds to a tragic conclusion. The Black Legion were a faction of the Klu Klux Klan. They were active in the 1920s and 1930s, they grew to prominence in the Great Depression. The film is based on the real life kidnapping and murder of a Work Progress Administration organiser: Charles S. Poole.We hope you enjoy this episode and stay tuned for more episodes of this Fascism On Film series.Be sure to check out our Monument Valley Film on our YouTube Channel.Anders's screenwriter work can also be seen at work in the horror, car chase thriller Delivery Run, co-written with & directed by Joey Palmroos. The film has been released digitally and also in select cinemas in the US and the UK. In Finland it was released on Apple TV after finishing its limited cinema run and was the Number 1 film for multiple weeks. You can read a review about it here on the Fangoria website. The film is now available to watch in the other Nordic territories like Sweden, Oslo and of course Denmark. If you live in Denmark, you can watch the movie here on Apple TV by clicking this link.Follow us on our Instagram page. For obvious reasons, we are no longer on Twitter. You won't find us there. Perhaps we will make a BlueSky account, so keep an eye out for that.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we were recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic.Check out our blog and read Anders's recent review on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.Also check us out on Letterboxd too!AndersAdam

Hello!Anders Holmes is back with a new solo Anders Reviews. . . episode. Spooky Season is now in session, summer is over, the days are getting shorter and colder. It is the perfect time of the year to sit down and watch a horror film or two. Or many if you're a big horror nut, like Anders. On this episode, Anders reviews and discusses one of the most popular and iconic horror franchises of all time: The Evil Dead Franchise. The first Evil Dead is the ultimate cabin in the woods film that has influenced numerous filmmakers, writers and special effects artists over the years. The brainchild of Sam Raimi, who arrived on the filmmaking scene with this raw and no-holds barred bloody masterpiece. Raimi has remained with the franchise. He directed and co-wrote Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn and Army of Darkness. After the original trilogy was completed a remake was released in 2013. In 2023, a new addition to the franchise was released: Evil Dead Rise. The latest Evil Dead film, Evil Dead Burn, was released into cinemas earlier this year. And Evil Dead Wrath is on the way in 2028. The Evil Dead films introduced the world to Bruce Campbell, who played the great character of Ash. A relatable everyman hero/anti-hero, who finds himself caught in a hellish situation. Often because of his own making. A groovy horror franchise indeed. Subscribe to the podcast and stay tuned for more horror themed solo episodes from Anders. The next one will be on the Psycho Franchise. Be sure to check out our Monument Valley Film on our YouTube Channel.Anders's screenwriter work can also be seen at work in the horror, car chase thriller Delivery Run, co-written with & directed by Joey Palmroos. The film has been released digitally and also in select cinemas in the US and the UK. In Finland it was released on Apple TV after finishing its limited cinema run and was the Number 1 film for multiple weeks. You can read a review about it here on the Fangoria website. The film is now available to watch in the other Nordic territories like Sweden, Oslo and of course Denmark. If you live in Denmark, you can watch the movie here on Apple TV by clicking this link.Follow us on our Instagram page. For obvious reasons, we are no longer on Twitter. You won't find us there. Perhaps we will make a BlueSky account, so keep an eye out for that.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we were recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic.Check out our blog and read Anders's recent review on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.Also check us out on Letterboxd too!AndersAdam

Welcome to the sixteenth episode of our ongoing series: Fascism On Film. Each episode of this series, the Holmes Brothers look and review a film that has to do with fascism. During the episodes, the brothers look and see how the aspects and portrayal of fascism shown in the film relate to current and/or past events.On this Fascism on Film episode, the Holmes Brothers sit down to discuss Joseph Losey's film Mr Klein, starring Alain Delon. Alain Delon stars as the titular character Mr Klein. The film is set during France during the Nazi Occupation, in the year 1942. The storyline takes place around the same time of the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup, where Parisian Jews were arrested by the Vichy French Police. Mr Klein is a Kafkaesque tale set during the early days of the war. Klein is an apolitical art dealer who takes advantage of French Jews who sell him their artwork, in order to escape Nazi persecution. Klein's life and career gets upended by a case of mistaken identity. A Jewish man with the same name brings him to the attention of the police. Klein sets out to find this man and clear his name. We hope you enjoy this episode and stay tuned for more episodes of this Fascism On Film series.Be sure to check out our Monument Valley Film on our YouTube Channel.Anders's screenwriter work can also be seen at work in the horror, car chase thriller Delivery Run, co-written with & directed by Joey Palmroos. The film has been released digitally and also in select cinemas in the US and the UK. In Finland it was released on Apple TV after finishing its limited cinema run and was the Number 1 film for multiple weeks. You can read a review about it here on the Fangoria website. The film is now available to watch in the other Nordic territories like Sweden, Oslo and of course Denmark. If you live in Denmark, you can watch the movie here on Apple TV by clicking this link.Follow us on our Instagram page. For obvious reasons, we are no longer on Twitter. You won't find us there. Perhaps we will make a BlueSky account, so keep an eye out for that.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we were recommending to each other over the course of the Covid-19 Pandemic.Check out our blog and read Anders's recent review on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Also check us out on Letterboxd too!AndersAdam