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 simian trio of films. Big screen apes, and the wines to make them more palatable. Monkey Business, the 1952 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks, is one of those hard-to-believe-yet-kinda-funny-in-a-way…
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 visit to the Far East for some Japanese film treasures, all directed by the great Akira Kurosawa. We also have a wine pairing for each movie. First of all, 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, our three films are simply killer. So are the wine pairings that go with them. From the title, we can assume that 1965’s How to Murder Your Wife is a black…
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 to remind us that November 5th is Election Day. Vote, please. And enjoy the wine pairings for each movie. There are some places in 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, we scare up wine pairings for three movies that fit right into Halloween week. Eye of the Devil is a British horror film from 1966 starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven, 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 three films about women in various kinds of danger. In Kinky Friedman’s detective novels, he and his posse had a code to use in instances when one…
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 are into recycling. Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within is a 2010 remake of the 2007 original. It’s a Brazilian action film, which…
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…