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 feel those trick-or-treaters breathing down our necks with a few comical ghost stories. 1964 brought us The Comedy of Terrors from American International Pictures. Mixing comedy and horror makes me…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week TFH Guru Brian Trenchard-Smith takes us on a cinematic journey to The Land Down Under. Of course, there are wine pairings for each. The Nightingale is a 2018 Australian western set…
1962 found Great Britain and West Germany collaborating on an action picture, Station Six Sahara. The movie is a remake of 1938’s S.O.S. Sahara. Carroll Baker plays a beautiful woman who turns up at a tiny oil pipeline station in the desert. She and her husband just happen to be driving along, three days 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’s three films deal with a future that looks like the past and serves as the present. Of course, there are wine pairings for each. Filmmakers from the U.S., New Zealand and…
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 three movies we can listen to as well as watch. We’ll have appropriate wine pairings for these Jazzed Up films. Round Midnight is the 1986 film about a musician…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week’s trio of films takes its name from the 1949 movie, Train of Events, which tells various stories as a train hurtles toward an explosive end. Let’s get to watching and drinking…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week’s selections are films which offer different views of dysfunction and the corresponding unction, without compunction. And, we’ll try to find some laughs along the way. The 2017 Russian movie, Loveless, actually…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. For this week’s movies, look no farther than the end of your arm. Let’s give the TFH gurus a hand for coming up with these choices. If you ever sat around a campfire…
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 salute to three feline references in the movies. I belong to an online group of people in my neighborhood, which puts forth a daily email blast of my…
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 directed by the great Francis Ford Coppola. The wine pairings are easy choices this time around, since Coppola also has a winery. The director and vintner sold…
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 may rely heavily on “critter labels” for our wine pairings, as the three movies all deal with animals. Looney Tunes Back in Action is a 2003 film directed by TFH…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, pairings for a few movies that may have escaped your notice. The creative juices run dry for everyone now and then. Trailers From Hell is no exception. It’s not easy for…
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 drinks with movies about – how shall we put this delicately – working girls. Y’know, hookers. The 1990 rom-com Pretty Woman has Richard Gere hooking up with Julia Roberts….
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 film classics starring the great Gregory Peck. I have always thought – hoped – that Gregory Peck took his Hollywood name after looking up while standing on 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 “very special” Blood of the Vines for the celebration of the USA’s birthday. The special that’s not really special concerns movies that aren’t really movies. Pass the popcorn. The 1974…
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 examine three films which deal with the atomic age, in one way or another. When I did a Google search for 2017’s Atomic Blonde – just to make sure I…
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 look at the dark side of the fair sex in a trio of Femme Noir films. The one-sheet for 1947’s Nora Prentiss says “Loving her once is once too often,”…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, the Music Matters in three films that gave us a record of three seminal concert experiences. What better reason to crack open a bottle or two? Or three? The 1973 documentary,…
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 the express train, with three stops along the way for a quick drink. The 1994 Hong Kong crime/dramedy/romance Chungking Express has so many genres attached to it, you can…
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 celebrate producer/director Charles Band. Charles Band started making movies in the 1970s and has created a number of films through the decades, many of them in the horror/comedy vein. He…
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 movies are about monsters and kids. How are we to tell them apart? For fans of movies, nothing stirs them quite like a movie about movie fans. Ask anyone…
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 Lewis Milestone, with pairings to match. Lewis Milestone was a Russian-American director who barely escaped a career in engineering. That’s what his parents…
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 break out some booze to drink while watching three films of “paranoid politix.” But wait, is it paranoia if they’re really out to get you? Movies about political paranoia were…
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 join Cinerama fans in calling for the preservation of the world-famous Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. If you want to see the change.org petition to Save the Dome, click here. We…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, the gurus have scoured their “What About This One?” lists for fine films forgotten. 1974’s noirish crime film, Buster and Billie, was directed by Daniel Petrie, who also helmed Fort Apache,…
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 fondly remember some of George Segal’s work after his recent passing. In 1972’s The Hot Rock, Segal got second billing to Robert Redford in the story of a diamond heist…