Inquiring minds want to know. That’s why we people-watch. Why else would we care about what other people are doing, except to satisfy our own curiosity? When I see a bottle of wine in someone’s shopping cart, I’m curious about it. I crane my neck to see what wine this person is buying. I spin…
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 wine pairings for a trio of films featuring everyone’s favorite Babs. Up the Sandbox, released toward the end of 1972, had Barbara Streisand as a New York City housewife…
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 subtitled classics from one of the all-time great directors. Wine pairings, too, of course. Jean Renoir’s father was an artist, too. He operated before the era of motion…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. We’ve lost another great one. James Earl Jones and his fantastic voice will be sorely missed. We have wine pairings, suitable for toasting. The movie that pitted James Earl Jones opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. What better trio of films to receive wine pairings than a handful of Hitchcocks. We’ll try some movies from later in his career. If you’re a fan of Alfred Hitchcock’s films – 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 look at three comedies that see the world through a slightly damaged lens. Our trio of movies this week deals with black humor. That’s not like “black jobs.” See Donald…
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 vintage classics from the era of Eisenhower, ducktails and fender fins, the fabulous 1950s. Okay, so Far from Heaven isn’t from the fabulous ‘50s, but 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, go slumming with some movies that were more in line for Raspberries than Oscars. To take off the edge, we have wine pairings for each. Plan 9 from Outer Space 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, it’s all about love, because apparently the TFH gurus just couldn’t wait for Valentine’s Day. We have a trio of films, and a wine pairing for each. In 1970, Love Story…
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 tip our hats and raise our glasses to the late British director Jack Clayton. If you prefer, you can tip your glasses and raise your hats. Jack Clayton’s name may…
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 wine pairings for a trio of forward-looking bummers. Future shock is the feeling of being overwhelmed by too much change in too short a time span. It’s a feeling…
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 wine pairings for three films which either invite you, command you, or discourage you from drinking. Which is which? You tell me. One of the better things about 2021…
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 three films from Robert Towne’s Selectric. Stop taking our icons, already! Robert Towne died last week, at the ripe old age of 89. He is a legend in…
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 turn it up to eleven for a trio of films heavily laced with both rock and roll. At the age of five, I slept with a big stuffed dog named…
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 a few films from a great actor who shuffled off this mortal coil last week. Donald Sutherland has passed away, a loss for the movie industry that is…
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 struggle to come up with the words, but the wines come easily. Pairings for these three films about writers will flow from my brain right into the keyboard. At least…
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 wine pairings for three films that may prompt you to applaud, with your hands up in the air. The phrase “Get ‘em up” has been used so often in…
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 wine pairings for three movies concerning the one bodily organ that keeps us from being Trump supporters, the brain. Does drinking wine make us smarter, or does it just…
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 wine pairings for three movies about women. Goils. Dolls. Babes. Tootsies. Chicks. Skirts. Frails. There, have we been insulting enough for one preamble? On with the show. They say…
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 need some big wine pairings for some big monster movies. Big. Huge. Massive. I watched a lot of monster movies as a young man, often with a group of friends…
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 a trio of slightly bent westerns. No deadeye, just wine. It’s not about wine, but that won’t stop us from pairing a wine with 1965’s The Hallelujah…
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 different takes on the Mutiny on the Bounty story. Each of the trailers has commentary from Larry Karaszewski, who co-wrote Ed Wood, The People vs….
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 Fritz Lang. We have a wine to pour with each of them. In my younger days, oh so long ago, I would occasionally have…
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 movies that may have fallen through the cracks. You can see them if you squint really hard and shine a flashlight down in there. Hey, didn’t…
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 Roger Corman’s birthday with wines for three of his films. April 5th has special significance beyond the fact that it sits roughly halfway between my birthday and tax…
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 dig around in the depths of our streaming platforms to find some forgotten films. We likely won’t have to dig too deep to find wine pairings for the movies….