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Pandemic in the Streets
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…
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CROOKS AND LAWYERS WITH BTS
Crooks and lawyers this week on Trailers From Hell. What’s the difference, you may ask? Lawyers drink better wine. Let’s see if…
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Low Budget Slashers
Aah, low-budget slashers this week on Trailers From Hell. There is nothing like pairing wine with a film that drips with Burgundy-red…
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BOTV – More Movies You Never Heard Of
Trailers From Hell is featuring more movies you never heard of this week, so my wine selections should be easy pairings –…
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Krazy Kidz
Kids have it tough. Grouchy old mom and dad to deal with, school, endless soccer practice … all with no wine to…
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Russ Meyer
The late Russ Meyer’s films are the epitome of excess. Pairing a wine with them seems unfair to the wine. It couldn’t…
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Kirk Douglas
The life of Kirk Douglas took him from a childhood dominated by a hard-drinking junkman father to adult years in which he…
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The Birds
Let’s dip into the Alfred Hitchcock catalog again – and no, the wine pairing isn’t brandy. That’s too easy, and it works…
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Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
If you spend a lot of online time at TrailersFromHell.com, you probably have an affinity for the low-budget horror films of the…
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Runaway Train
Is it just me, or do all the characters Eric Roberts plays need a smack upside the head from a wine bottle?…
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From Russia With Love
British secret agent James Bond gave the world its most famous drink order: “A martini – shaken, not stirred.” Even if you…
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The Pom Pom Girls
There is something quaintly American about cheerleaders. There is also something quaintly American about baseball, apple pie and white Zinfandel. This time,…
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Cool Hand Luke
As we inch our way toward autumn, wine lovers turn their thoughts to harvest time. Visions of grape pickers working the vineyards…
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Piranha
Don’t be too quick to fish for a white wine to pair with the 1978 “Jaws” parody, “Piranha.” The Roger Corman production,…
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Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
I’ll bet if a poll were taken to determine which movie star would be the most popular companion for drinks, it would…
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Caddyshack
Golfers love wine – after they are done golfing. While they are golfing, it’s beer. Those inconsiderate showoffs who can shoot in…
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The Godfather
What kind of wine would Don Corleone drink? When that question came to mind, I turned to the one and only source…
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The Man From Hong Kong
“The Man From Hong Kong” is cited as the first Australian/Hong Kong production in cinematic history, as well as the first Australian…
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All The King’s Men
When talk turns to Louisiana, we don’t really think of wine. Mint juleps, sure. Falstaff beer, of course. Absinthe, it makes the…
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The Court Jester
Danny Kaye was one of my family’s favorite entertainers when I was a kid. His movie career was (mostly) before my time,…
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I Was A Teenage Werewolf
When I was in college – way back when – the student center had a room where a different video each week…
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Them
When I first saw the classic sci-fi movie, “Them!,” I didn’t know the meaning of needing a drink. Today, I do. It’s…
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Alien
So you meet your friends for some wine before the movie. You allow plenty of time, so you can relax and have…
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Arsenic and Old Lace
Pairing wine with certain movies requires a leap of faith. How would you really feel having fava beans and Chianti while watching…
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Lord Love A Duck
If you are in the mood for an unhinged parody of the beach-blanket-teen-flesh movies of the early to mid-’60s – and when…
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Touch of Evil
Orson Welles wrote, directed and co-starred in “Touch of Evil” in 1958, at the end of what might be considered film noir’s…