"Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho."

Yippee-ki-yay, motherf-ers, welcome to the party pals and Merry Christmas to one and all! The Holmes Movies Podcast crew are here with another Trilogies episode. A Yuletide themed episode just in time for the holidays. On this episode, Anders & Adam Holmes discuss the first three original films in the Die Hard franchise. The film that started it all Die Hard, then its 1990 sequel Die Hard 2: Die Harder and finally the 1995 threequel starring Samuel L. Jackson Die Hard: With A Vengeance.

The first Die Hard is one of the best action films of all time that helped define the action genre of the 1980s. An influential and well crafted film from director John McTiernan, it not only was a huge box office success but it propelled Bruce Willis from TV actor to movie star. And it also introduced the world to Alan Rickman who got his big break playing the brilliant villain Hans Gruber. Bruce Willis played John McClane, a wise cracking New York police officer who is the textbook definition of the wrong guy, in the wrong place at the wrong time and who is caught in a real towering inferno of explosions, gunfights and surviving death defying stunts. From sunny California, to snowy windy Washington DC and to the hustle and bustle of New York City, there is nothing he can't handle.

Happy holidays and Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it. Be safe out there.

Anders's screenwriter work can also be seen in the western The Outlaws which is a available to watch in the US, Finland & the UK on Amazon and Apple TV for example. You can read a review about the film on Collider.

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Welcome to the fifth 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, writer 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 a friend of Adam's, Kate Senecal. Kate works as a writing coach, developmental editor, teacher and a writing group facilitator. She resides and is based in Western Massachusetts. Kate works with all kinds writers ranging from short story writers, novelists, screenwriters and playwrights. What she does and coaches in, for example, is helping writers maintain a consistent writing habit, helping others find a community of writers, becoming better self-editors and developing craft technique for writers to take their stories further. She provides one on one coaching sessions in person or on Zoom and there is an opportunity to workshops ideas with other groups of writers. There is also something she offers to writers which is called Book Buddies which you can read about here.

You can find all you need to know about Kate and the work she does here on her website.

We really enjoyed having Kate on the episode and talking to her about four unique and different films (and one honourable mention) that she picked. All of them are adapted from books and/or short stories.

Anders's screenwriter work can also be seen in the western The Outlaws which is a available to watch in the US, Finland & the UK on Amazon and Apple TV for example. You can read a review about the film on Collider.

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Welcome to our second Noirvember Special, the last time we did an episode where we discussed Film Noir as a whole was back in 2020. The episode can be listened to here on Apple Podcasts.

On this smoky and hardboiled episode, Anders & Adam Holmes are joined by the great and legendary Richard Bruno to discuss the roots of Film Noir, it's literary and filmic influences, the films that define film noir plus its actors, filmmakers and also try to answer the burning question surrounding Noir: Is Noir a filmmaking style? Or is Noir a film genre itself? Friend of the podcast Richard Bruno returns for a second time as a guest, having already been a guest on our Movies And Me episode that features him.

A lot of films on this episode are mentioned by all three of us, all are Film Noir classics and we all recommend them. So do keep your ears peeled and list them as we go. In case you haven't seen any of the films before.

In keeping with the Noir theme, feel free to also check out Anders & Adam's previous episode on the Un-Official Philip Marlowe Trilogy.

Anders's screenwriter work can also be seen in the western The Outlaws which is a available to watch in the US, Finland & the UK on Amazon and Apple TV for example. You can read a review about the film on Collider.

Follow us on our Instagram page. We're vacating our Twitter page and the site in general, for obvious reasons.

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Anders

Adam

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