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 a look at a few movies which detail some of the more disreputable aspects of the Me Decade. We will try to class up the joint a bit with…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, three movies from the early 1960s which make a close examination of some harsh realities. We have wine pairings for each, to take the edge off. The Kitchen Sink Movement came…
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 up, up and away for a trio of flying films. Of course, there are wine pairings for each. Test Pilot, from 1938, stars Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer…
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 into a few movies featuring Peter Lorre – with wine pairings for each. Peter Lorre was an amazing actor, we don’t need to beat that horse to death. However,…
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 brain movies. That’s brain, not brainy. The 1958 sci-fi The Brain Eaters was produced by Ed Nelson, who also stars, and an uncredited Roger Corman. Director Bruno…
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 wine is the color of blood as we serve up some pairings for three films concerning serial killers. In Cold Blood is a movie from 1967, based on Truman Capote’s…
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 cinematic robots of the past. The Colossus of New York is a 1958 sci-fi which employs the old “transplanting a brain into another body” trope. Skipping 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, our three movies concern L.A.’s favorite obsession – after movies, of course – cars. There is a wine pairing for each. Let’s get revved up. Gumball Rally is a 1976 laffer…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. There are no words for this week’s movies. They’re silent. Well, two of them are. We have corks to pop for each. The Man Who Laughs is from 1928 and was one of…
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 are a hell of a good time to watch. There are appropriate wine pairings for each, of course. Demons is a 1985 Italian horror film, which we know…
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 TFH Guru Daniel Kremer digging deep into the archives for a few cinematic nuggets you probably missed, for one reason or another. Dear Mr. Wonderful is a 1982 film…
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 trio of arthouse favorites, with suggestions on what to drink with them. I don’t know about his cred as an auteur, but 1974’s Sunday in the Country…
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 westerns that turned the genre around to view it from a different angle. We also have wine pairings for the films, even though a shot of…
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 the music. Oh, and the wine. Celebration at Big Sur is the film version of the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival, although the movie was not released until…
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 scares come fast and furious as we pair wine with three movies suitable for the spookiest night of the year. Night Gallery was the 1969 pilot for the television program,…
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 hellishness finds new heights – er, depths – as we prepare for the end of the month with a trio of Halloween Haunts. Scary movies are a staple in 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 we salute the recently departed Angela Lansbury. Something for Everyone is from 1970 and features Lansbury in what is billed as a black comedy, but the critics of the day would…
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 a few flicks from the peerless Otto Preminger, with a wine pairing for each. I should comment on the title of the column this week. The Peerless Otto seems…
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 three films which feature the swingin’ sounds of the big bands, and a wine pairing for each. The music we are dealing with this time is more than soundtrack…
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 three films which bring a container ship of action from the Far East, and a wine pairing for each of them. Shogun Assassin is a 1980 mashup of 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, we have three films which center on race relations in America, with wine pairings for each, from African-American winemakers. Racial tensions and the violence that often results from them are the…
Mandy is a 2018 action/horror film. It is a bloody, trippy, stylish movie which shows revenge served as cold as it gets. When you see Nicholas Cage take off on a revenge mission armed with an axe and a crossbow – the latter weapon has a name, by the way – you realize you expect…
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 directed by Sidney Furie, with wine pairings for each. Sidney Furie is a Canadian-born film director who helped forge a movie industry in his home country, sort…
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 pour up some wine pairings for a few films directed by William Friedkin. The Night They Raided Minsky’s, from 1968, is listed as Friedkin’s fictional description of the 1925 invention…
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 pour up some wine pairings for a few films directed by the late, great Robert Altman. He was a groundbreaker, a trailblazer, an innovator – and hopefully our pairings will…
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 select a few wines to put alongside films of auteur directors, filmmakers whose visions for the scripts were so strong that we credit them almost entirely for what appears on…