Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week we mourn the passing of Tim Curry, with film and wine. Not only was Curry’s film career solid, but he was also a heck of a musician. His 1981 song “Working…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, it’s Peter Sellers time, so the wine pairings had better be dry. From 1968, I Love You Alice B Toklas was a rom-com aimed at a young audience. Sellers plays a…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, we dip into the rich pool of satire for three films that tell it like it was. We’ll have wine pairings for each. The Great Dictator, from 1940, satirizes Hitler, Mussolini,…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, our three films all star the great James Cagney. Wine pairings accompany each film, of course. You know, Cagney never really said “You dirty rat” in a movie. He did call…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, a trio of movies about people who operate way outside the norm. There are crazy wine pairings to go with each. Maniac Cop is a 1988 slasher flick which the…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, a trio of Shakespeare movies. You didn’t know they had movies back then, did you? A wine pairing will be given for each. From 1996, we have Looking for Richard….
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week we get vengeful, as we pair wines with movies about getting even. Denmark produced Riders of Justice in 2020. In case you didn’t think the Danes had a good sense…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, we are happy to feature three films from the late, great, Samuel Fuller. Unfortunately, I can claim no relation. We are happy to drink a toast to the man, with a…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, we enjoy three big adventures on film, and a wine pairing for each. We’ll open with Peewee’s Big Adventure, from 1985, Tim Burton’s debut in the feature film category. I was…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, we go digging in the dirt, with three films featuring some of the less pleasant members of society. With wine, pairings, of course. In 1986 Stuart Gordon gave us From…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, a trio of films dabbling in dragons, to one extent or another. We also have some fire-breathing wine pairings for each. Dragons Forever is a 1988 action/comedy martial arts movie…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, we take a look at three films in the science fiction realm. We also have three earth-bound wines to pair with them. Explorers, from 1985, was the film breakthrough for Ethan…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, it’s a John Frankenheimer party. Three Frankenheimer films and a wine pairing for each. Frankenheimer directed Dead Bang back in 1989. It has Don Johnson as a Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, we’re in the driver’s seat for three films that owe their existence to the auto industry. We have wine pairings for each film, although we encourage you to wait until you’re…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, your worst nightmares get wine pairings. Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker was released in 1981 the first time around. You may have caught it in re-release, retitled as Night Warning. William Asher…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, we have three views of valley life, with a wine pairing for each. First, let’s go waaay down in the valley. The San Fernando Valley was home to a thriving pornography…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, we have three James Bond films on the docket along with a wine pairing for each. And, no, Mr. Bond. We expect you to drink. The third film in the Bond…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, we have a trio of films directed by the late, great Frank Capra. There is also a trio of wines for pairing. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 romantic…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, we go to the dark side for a platter of film noir. Some wine pairings will help wash down the bitter little pills. In my younger days, oh so long ago,…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, we try to grow up a little. Hopefully we’ll grow to legal drinking age, because, you know, wine pairings. Flirting made its way out of Australia in 1991. If you’ve forgotten…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, we lift a big rock and look beneath it to find the squiggly life forms who make the movies we love. The Bad and the Beautiful sounds like the title of…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, we pair wines with three films featuring monsters, and the spouses who love them. The Bride! puts an exclamation point on the title, possibly to indicate how much fun the critics…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. Please join us in lifting a glass to remember the wonderful actress, Valerie Perrine. She passed away in March after battling Parkinson’s disease for eleven years. Perrine’s date with death was delayed when…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, we pair wines with some films dealing with religion, of one sort or another. Christopher Walken stars in The Prophecy, from 1995. This horror movie promises “an evil born in heaven…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, a trio from David Lynch. His fingerprints are all over these three films, and we have a wine pairing for each of them. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is the…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, oy vey. The TFH movie mavens have us schlepping some wine pairings for three films that bring different views of Jewishness. Hey, tryin’ to be a mensch over here. From 2020,…