MURDER USA 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 Blood of the Vines is a real killer. “Murder USA” hangs over the trio of classic films which get the wine pairing treatment this time. Hired henchmen who handle…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. We’re still watching movies at home and restaurants were never what they were cracked up to be, anyway. Aliens in the movies are tricky. There are those who think they know how to…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. What else are you doing while stuck at home? War is nothing to celebrate, although armed conflicts large and small have driven many to drink. Many of us have been doing more drinking…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. What else are you doing while stuck at home? Everyone is itching to come out from our covidian cocoons. While there has been some fun, sitting around since March, drinking and watching movies…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. What else are you doing while stuck at home? Wine aficionados like to think that wine is a living entity. It breathes! Let the wine BREEEEATHE and it really “comes alive.” It evolves! …
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. What else are you doing while stuck at home? If you don’t like the humor in the 1966 comedy Don’t Worry We’ll Think of a Title, you don’t have enough borscht under your…
The 2011 thriller Contagion plays like it was ripped from today’s headlines. A respiratory illness spreads rapidly and … pandemic time! The virus even has a name made up of all caps and a number, MEV-1. The writer researched the topic with real live scientists, which puts him on at least equal footing with our…
The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated self-isolation and quarantine measures have given many of us a lot of extra time. I’ve been spending my extra time by drinking wine and watching movies. So, no, my life hasn’t changed much. Grocery shopping has changed. Who would have believed that when panic hit the streets, the toilet…
Crooks and lawyers this week on Trailers From Hell. What’s the difference, you may ask? Lawyers drink better wine. Let’s see if we can find a good match for this week’s featured flicks. 2007’s Michael Clayton was nominated for seven Oscars, and it would have been eight had there been a category for Worst Title. …
Aah, low-budget slashers this week on Trailers From Hell. There is nothing like pairing wine with a film that drips with Burgundy-red blood. Are those Bordeaux stains on your smock? Tell Chuckie to go to hell, and take his trailer with him. Leave the bottle. Alice, Sweet Alice got the director not only charged with…
Trailers From Hell is featuring more movies you never heard of this week, so my wine selections should be easy pairings – more wines you never heard of. Wine aficionados and movie buffs say those are the best ones, anyway. Everybody likes to think they are a cult of one. In my younger days, music…
Kids have it tough. Grouchy old mom and dad to deal with, school, endless soccer practice … all with no wine to help take off the edge. They must find it terribly unfair that Mommy gets her medicine, but all they get is vaping and Tide Pods. The Krazy Kidz in the movies featured this…
The late Russ Meyer’s films are the epitome of excess. Pairing a wine with them seems unfair to the wine. It couldn’t possibly keep up. Whiskey might be more appropriate, or a shot of tequila or three, or a bottle of Captain Morgan and a liter of Coke. However, I’m sure we will stumble across…
The life of Kirk Douglas took him from a childhood dominated by a hard-drinking junkman father to adult years in which he lived in a Beverly Hills home with a wine cellar. He was one of the world’s biggest movie stars and most noted actors, and Trailers From Hell remembers him this week after his…
Let’s dip into the Alfred Hitchcock catalog again – and no, the wine pairing isn’t brandy. That’s too easy, and it works with all Hitchcock movies. For any sort of trouble that arises – and with Hitchcock, it always arises – the cure is a blast of brandy. You can have a blast, but we…
If you spend a lot of online time at TrailersFromHell.com, you probably have an affinity for the low-budget horror films of the 1950s. Off-kilter story lines, scenery chewing, on-screen gaffes – not a problem! In fact, bring ’em on! That’s what we came here for. “Daughter of Dr. Jekyll” is right in your wheelhouse. It’s…
Is it just me, or do all the characters Eric Roberts plays need a smack upside the head from a wine bottle? Not the 750 mL size, either, but a magnum (1.5 L) or a Methuselah (6 L) or even a Nebuchadnezzar (15 L) just to make an impression. With a roster of 243 roles…
British secret agent James Bond gave the world its most famous drink order: “A martini – shaken, not stirred.” Even if you don’t like martinis, it sounds great in Sean Connery’s dulcet tones. If Bond had been a Russian, he might have asked for “Wodka – leave the bottle.” But then he would have been…
There is something quaintly American about cheerleaders. There is also something quaintly American about baseball, apple pie and white Zinfandel. This time, we’re hangin’ with “The Pom Pom Girls.” All-American girls in bikinis at the beach, practicing their cheers while showing their rears. Roll ‘em, aaaaand – that’s a wrap! What more do you need…
As we inch our way toward autumn, wine lovers turn their thoughts to harvest time. Visions of grape pickers working the vineyards fill our heads, lovingly fondling each cluster of Chardonnay, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon before gently plucking it from the vine and sending it on its way to the sorting table.At the beginning of…
Don’t be too quick to fish for a white wine to pair with the 1978 “Jaws” parody, “Piranha.” The Roger Corman production, directed by TFH chief guru Joe Dante will probably require something with a little more bite. While “Jaws” had only one fish – okay, it was a pretty big fish – “Piranha”…
I’ll bet if a poll were taken to determine which movie star would be the most popular companion for drinks, it would be Cary Grant. Maybe Ray Milland. Maybe I should go to the internet and find the conclusive answer. Thanks for waiting. It didn’t take long. You know how fast that internet is. A…
Golfers love wine – after they are done golfing. While they are golfing, it’s beer. Those inconsiderate showoffs who can shoot in the 80s probably guzzle Gatorade, or Red Bull or something called “water.” Who cares what those inconsiderate showoffs drink, though? Golfers love “Caddyshack,” too. Even non-golfers love “Caddyshack,” but let’s stay on the…
What kind of wine would Don Corleone drink? When that question came to mind, I turned to the one and only source for factual information – the internet. I found that someone had already been curious about that topic, and had asked Yahoo Answers the very same question. There was a scant response to the…
“The Man From Hong Kong” is cited as the first Australian/Hong Kong production in cinematic history, as well as the first Australian martial arts film. Trailers From Hell guru Brian Trenchard-Smith got his directorial start with this film, and he has some nice tidbits to offer in his TFH clip. A martial arts movie with…
When talk turns to Louisiana, we don’t really think of wine. Mint juleps, sure. Falstaff beer, of course. Absinthe, it makes the heart grow fonder. But, be honest. When you think of Louisiana, you think of crooked politicians, complete with prison sentences. Willie Stark is the main character in “All The King’s Men,” and he…