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…
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 birthday cake for a trio of movies starring Dustin Hoffman. Dustin Hoffman is now 85 years old. What birthday present do you give someone who has two…
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 look – and listen – to three Martin Scorsese films about music. Who uses music to better effect in movies than Martin Scorsese? Put your hands…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week is a killer. Three killers, to be precise, and a wine pairing for each. Back when I was a music director for a radio station, I would get a call every…
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 stooge movies, two of which would be better served by a seltzer bottle. I’ll warn you ahead of time – this trio of movies is held…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, trip out with some movies that might mess with your head, with wine pairings for each. If you remember the TV series Then Came Bronson, you may also remember the Mad…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, in lieu of fireworks leaping from these digital pages, we have wine pairings for three films which concern the good ol’ U.S. of A. Paul Newman stars in WUSA, along 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, we once again delve into the bottomless pit of movies close to the hearts of the TFH gurus, but of which you may not be aware. This time around, I fear…
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 find some wines that pair well with screwball comedies – wines that taste good going down as well as coming out our noses when we laugh. This nation needed 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, pour up wine pairings for three movies concerning the lives of fine artistes who had it rough. Isadora is the 1968 biopic of dancer Isadora Duncan. She gained worldwide fame as…
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 to the recently passed actor Ray Liotta with wine pairings for three of his films. In 1990’s Goodfellas, Liotta turned in a career performance as mobster-turned-witness Henry…
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 find some wines to pair with a trio of Bond films – James Bond films. One of my favorite moments in the TV series, The West Wing, is when 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 gaze backwards into our crystal balls to see what moviemakers of yesteryear thought the future would be like. If you have yet to see it, we’ll start with a spoiler:…
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 delve into the less glamorous side of Tinseltown, that side which is inhabited by murderers, con men and people who are just trying to make a living at this crazy…
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 wine pairings don’t stand a ghost of a chance against this supernatural trio of films from the great beyond. Peter Ibbetson is a 1935 film starring Gary Cooper and Ann…