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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/ho

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 Letterbo

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 lik

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

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 h

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

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.

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 respon

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 41st Academy Awards, the year that honoured the best films of 1968. It was held April 14th 1969 for the first time at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Carol Reed's Oliver! was nominated for 11 Academy Awards and won 5, including Best Picture and Best Director. Stanley Kubrick received the only Oscar over his entire career that night for Best Visual Effects (2001: A Space Odyssey). It was also the year where there was a tie for the Best Actress in a Leading Role category. Listen to the episode and find out who Anders and Adam believe should have won that night! Subscribe/Follow and check out the rest of t

Welcome to the first 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 first episode, Anders and Adam Holmes sit down with a bonafide and talented filmmaker Callum Burn, Anders's old Met Film School friend, and talk about his new feature film Battle Over Britain. A low budget Second World War film about a group of exhausted Spitfire pilots fighting to the last man/pilot during the Battle Of Britain. A film that Anders worked on last year as a sound recordist and boom operator.Since finishing film school ten years ago, Callum and his father Andrew Burn have started their own independent production company Tin Hat Productions and already h

Welcome to our 26th Top 10 Episode where Anders & Adam Holmes list their top 10 favourite films of the 1930s.To round off this season of top 10 episodes, the Holmes Brothers will be going back and looking at each decade of cinema and list their 10 favourite films.This episode, they are going to be looking at the 1930s. iDuring the 1930s, sound films, talkies, dominated cinema and were a phenomenon. Silent films were very much a thing of the past. The 30s was the golden age of Hollywood and 1939 is considered one of the best years of cinema. The studio system was at its highest and The Hays Code was in full affect. Musicals, monster horror films, swashbuckling epics and even westerns were very popular. Escapist cinema at its best. It was also the decade of The Great Depression, the rise of fascist political movements and Europe was still dealing with the fallout of World War One. Where will films like The Lady Vanishes, 42nd Street, Stagecoach, La Grande Illusion and The Women land on their lists? Listen h

Welcome to our 1930s Horror Special!It is October and that spooky time of the year where horror fans sit down to watch nothing but scary movies over this glorious month. Anders & Adam Holmes meet over Zoom and talk about 1930s horror aka Pre-Code Horror. Films like Dracula, Island of Lost Souls, Vampyr, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man and The Bride Of Frankenstein. Follow our new Instagram Page! Follow us on our Twitter page to stay tuned about updates.Here is an oldie but a goodie: Our episode on James Whale's horror classic Frankenstein and it's great sequel The Bride of Frankenstein.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!AndersAdam Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to our 25th Top 10 Episode where Anders & Adam Holmes list their top 10 favourite films of the 1940s.To round off this season of top 10 episodes, the Holmes Brothers will going back and looking at each decade of cinema and list their 10 favourite films.This episode, they are going to be looking at the 1940s. During the 40s, Hollywood and the film industry as a whole changed radically because of World War II. Many films released that came out during and after the war were a reflection of that moment in history. A lot of influential and brilliant European filmmakers flocked across the Atlantic to America to escape Nazi prosecution and got work in Hollywood. From 1939 to 1946, the film industry faced a long period of decline and low attendance at movie theatres. What classic films of this period will be on Adam and Anders's lists? Where will films like Out of the Past, The Red Shoes, The Third Man, Murder My Sweet and The Treasure of Sierra Madre land on their lists? Listen here and find out.We hope

Welcome to our 24th Top 10 Episode where Anders & Adam Holmes list their top 10 favourite films of the 1950s.To round off this season of top 10 episodes, the Holmes Brothers will going back and looking at each decade of cinema and list their 10 favourite films.This episode, they are going to be looking at the 1950s. The 50s was a very interesting decade for cinema. A stressful time in someways for Hollywood. Independent production companies started up, TV became a big competition, paranoia and fears of communism, cold war and nuclear weapons clouded over people and European cinema in countries such a France and Sweden was flourishing. It was the decade of blacklisting, HUAC and McCarthyism. What classic films of this period are in Adam and Anders's lists? Where do films like Vertigo, The Searchers, The Night of the Hunter, 12 Angry Men and The Seventh Seal land on their lists? Listen here and find out.We hope you enjoy it and we hope you come back for more. Next episode, it's going to be about the 1940s a

Welcome to our 23rd Top 10 Episode where Anders & Adam Holmes list their top 10 favourite films of the 1960s.To round off this season of top 10 episodes, the Holmes Brothers will going back and looking at each decade of cinema and list their 10 favourite films. This episode, they are going to be looking at the 1960s. This was an interesting decade in film as cinema was beginning to go through a change. A cinematic revolution was happening. The Golden Age of Hollywood was pretty much having its last days. In France, the French New Wave was at its peak. At the end of the decade, the New Hollywood movement was on the horizon. Socially and politically the world was changing and films in this time were reflecting that. Subjects and themes that were considered taboo were being looked at and tackled in film, like sex, racism and even onscreen violence was changing. Where do you think films like The Wild Bunch, Night of the Living Dead, The Apartment or Cleo from 5 To 7 land on their lists? You're gonna have to l

Welcome to our 22nd Top 10 Episode where Anders & Adam Holmes list their top 10 favourite films of the 1970s.To round off this season of top 10 episodes, the Holmes Brothers will going back and looking at each decade of cinema and list their 10 favourite films. This episode, they are going to be looking at the 1970s. This was a very important and unique decade in cinema which brought in a new style of moviemaking and pretty helped set the stage for the future of cinema in the years to come. It was also the decade where the New Hollywood movement was prolific. Where do you think films like The Godfather, Jaws, Chinatown or Serpico land on their lists? You're gonna have to listen and find out. We hope you enjoy it and we hope you come back for more. Next episode, it's going to be about the 1960s and each of their 10 favourite films from that period. So stay tuned for that. Follow us on our Twitter page to stay tuned about updates.Follow our Letterboxd page where you can see what we have been recommending to

It’s the Alternative Oscars! AKA the Anders and Adam-emy Awards: Each episode 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 69th Academy Awards. It was held March 24th 1997 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California and hosted by Billy Crystal. The big winner that night was Anthony Minghella's epic romance The English Patient starring Ralph Fiennes, Willem Dafoe, Kristen Scott Thomas and Juliette Binoche, who went home with a Best Supporting Actress Oscar that night. It won 9 Oscars out of its 12 nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. It won over films like Fargo, Secrets & Lies, Jerry Maguire and Shine. Did it deserve to win? Listen to the episode and find out! Subscribe/Follow and check out the rest of the podcast!Listen to and check out all the episodes we recommended to each other during Lockdown here

It’s the Alternative Oscars! AKA the Anders and Adam-emy Awards: Each episode 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 32nd Academy Awards. It was held April 4th 1960 at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California and hosted by Bob Hope. The big winner that night was William Wyler's epic swords and sandals film Ben Hur starring Charlton Heston, who went home with a Best Actor Oscar that night. It won 11 Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, over films like Anatomy of a Murder, The Nun's Story, The Diary of Anne Frank and Room at the Top.Check out the podcast on: https://linktr.ee/holmesmoviespodListen to and check out all the episodes we recommended to each other during Lockdown: https://letterboxd.com/andersfholmes/list/holmes-movies-recommends/Check out Anders's review of Cocaine Bear! Follow us at @holmesm

It’s the Alternative Oscars! AKA the Anders and Adam-emy Awards: Each episode 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 58th Academy Awards. It was held March 24 1986 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California and hosted by Alan Alda, Robin Williams and Jane Fonda. The big winner that night was Sydney Pollack's sprawling love story epic Out of Africa starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. It won 7 Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, over films like Steven Spielberg's The Colour Purple and Akira Kurosawa's Ran, a favourite of ours. Check out the podcast on: https://linktr.ee/holmesmoviespodListen to Adam recommend Akira Kurosawa's Ran on one of our old Holmes Movies Recommends Episodes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/holmes-movies-podcast/id1016954414?i=1000472330893 Follow us at @holmesmov

It’s the Alternative Oscars! AKA the Anders and Adam-emy Awards: Each episode 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 46th Academy Awards, the Oscars that had the infamous streaking incident. Held April 2nd 1974 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The hosts were Burt Reynolds, Diana Ross, David Niven and John Huston. This was the night when The Sting, directed by George Roy Hill and starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman, won 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. It won over films like The Exorcist, American Graffiti and Last Tango In Paris. Check out the podcast on: https://linktr.ee/holmesmoviespodListen here to Anders's review of Last Tango In Paris: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/holmes-movies-podcast/id1016954414?i=1000521433834Follow us at @holmesmoviespod: https://tw