Holmes Movies Podcast

Welcome to the 5th episode of our Trilogies series. We hope you enjoyed our last episode where we looked at Jack Ryan Trilogy both starring Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford as the titular character. On this episode, we look back at another espionage film franchise which is little bit of the opposite of the world seen in the Jack Ryan films. Something that is a little more dark, mysterious, dangerous and not as black and white. A world that is grey. We are going to be looking at the original Bourne Trilogy. The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy and finally The Bourne Ultimatum. Before the studio heads decided to try and milk these films with a not so well received spin-off sidequel starring Jeremy Renner and then resorting to bring back Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon as Jason Bourne in 2016, the original three Bourne Films really defined action cinema in the early to mid 2000s. Highly influential in regards its bleak and nuanced look at the US Government and Special Intelligence agencies, plus it's stylistic and visual approach to action cinematography. Shaky Cam was born with these films. We hope you continue to enjoy this new Trilogies Series we're doing and we also hope you enjoy this episode. Stay Tuned for more!As it is the summer, we are on a mini hiatus. So there won't be that many episodes out during the next couple of months. But do check out what we have recorded already. 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!AndersAdam

Welcome to the fourth episode of The Movies And Me, a new podcast project of ours where in each of these episodes 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 filmmaker William Darbyshire, Anders's old friend from Met Film School in London. After graduating from Met Film School in 2013, Will started making films for his YouTube channel. He has earned quite a large following with amassing over 615,000 subscribers. The work that he did through his channel showcased unique and profound views on travel, relationships and mental health. In 2016, Will reached out to his followers to send him their intimate thoughts about their relationship experiences, in the form of written letters, poems, photographs, and emails. The book, This Modern Love, is a collection of love and heartache from Will's followers. It was a Sunday Times bestseller and sold over 100,000 copies. A follow up book to This Modern Love is in the making. If you follow Will on his social media platforms like Instagram or Twitter, you can find info on it there. And also where to send in submissions to have it possibly be featured in the book. In Will's words if you have something to get off your chest and have it be considered for the next instalment, simply write a letter that you would want to send to your crush or your ex and email it to the email inbox: submissions@thismodern.love. It can take on the form of whatever you feel is best to express yourself, all you have to do is provide your first name, age and location. Will still keeps up with his filmmaking and is currently writing and developing short and feature film ideas. His recent short film Cycles has just had a successful film festival run. We had so much fun talking to Will about his career 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.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!AndersAdamWill

Welcome to the 4th episode of our Trilogies series. We hope you enjoyed our last episode where we looked at The Dollars Trilogy from Sergio Leone. On this episode, we look back at some favourites from our childhood that we watched quite a bit on VHS. We are going to be looking at the original Jack Ryan trilogy that consists of The Hunt For Red October, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger that starred Alec Baldwin and Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan. The main character created by thriller author Tom Clancy who appeared in multiple books by the author. The three early Jack Ryan films were seminal thrillers of the early to mid 90s. Proper Dad thrillers. Fun and memorable films with excellent all star casts that included actors such as Sean Connery, Sam Neill, Tim Curry, James Earl Jones, Scott Glenn, Fred Thompson, Sean Bean and Anne Archer. All three films are well directed by directors who understood the action and thriller genres: John McTiernan and Phillip Noyce. There's always some political and spy intrigue in these films plus some good action. We hope you continue to enjoy this new Trilogies Series we're doing and we also hope you enjoy this episode. 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 48% 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!AndersAdam

Welcome to the 3rd episode of our Trilogies series. We hope you enjoyed our last episode where we looked at the Toy Story trilogy (excluding 2019's Toy Story 4). On this episode, we are looking back at a influential trilogy of films. Three Spaghetti Westerns from Italy. Being die hard fans of Westerns, we just had to talk about these films. Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone certainly was a tremendous and influential filmmaker. A remarkable visual storyteller and who has influenced the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Alex Cox for example. This episode we will be looking at Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy, which includes A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. These films made a star out of Clint Eastwood, whose The Man With No Name character has been a staple of the Western genre and cinema itself, and he was an actor most famous for the TV show Rawhide and B-Movies. We look at the impact the Dollars Trilogy and the Spaghetti Western genre as a whole has had on cinema and what makes these types of films so great and fun to watch. Plus we get to discuss the scores that Ennio Morricone composed for each of these films. We hope you continue to enjoy this new Trilogies Series we're doing and we hope you enjoy this episode. 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 48% 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!AndersAdamHere is a review of the Sydney Sweeney film Immaculate from Anders Holmes

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