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…
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 three films show what can happen when actors direct. There are wine pairings to go with them, in case any directors out there need a relaxer. Sometimes a Great Notion was…
Sometimes movies escape our attention, for many reasons. We were busy with other things, we were sick when it was released, we lost our Netflix login. Here is another attempt by the TFH gurus to shine some light on a few films you may have missed. The Chaser is a 2008 South Korean film that…
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 offerings are ripped from the pages written by horror-master Stephen King. 1408 is the room number of a NYC hotel. Don’t take that room, take the one by 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 go all noir on you, with three dark streets to walk down. Just keep looking over your shoulder. They are still after you. The Burglar is a 1957 film noir…
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 go a-hunting for wines to pair with three filmfuls of countercultural appropriations. The Trial of Billy Jack was one of 1974’s worst films, to hear the critics tell it. Movie…
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 come up with bottles to go with three movies written by Paddy Chayefsky. The Hospital got Chayefsky another Oscar, for Best Original Screenplay. The 1971 satire stars George C. Scott…
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 star the vivacious Tuesday Weld. Weld starred in A Safe Place in 1971, alongside Orson Welles and Jack Nicholson. She played a New York City “hippie chick” who…
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 which featured Mr. Edward G. Robinson. 1942’s Larceny Inc. has Edward G turning his frown upside down… well, sort of. The role of Pressure Maxwell gives Robinson…
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 starring a man’s man, the one and only William Holden. The 1954 war flick, Bridges at Toko-Ri, starred Holden opposite Grace Kelly. He plays a former WWII…
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 a movie man who passed away recently, Ivan Reitman. Reitman was born in Czechoslovakia and was a Canadian. Either because of that or despite it, he became best known…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, let us give you one of those chalky candy hearts, the one that says Be My Valentine. Chilly Scenes of Winter is a 1979 romantic drama – romdra? – which stars…
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 feel those criminal fingers tightening around our throats. If there were a cinematic process called Strangloscope, these movies would have certainly been filmed in it. Strangulation has to be 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 get down to business with wine pairings for three films about the corporate world. The first person to say “You’re fired,” gets fired. Richard E. Grant and Rachel Ward star…
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 devil made us do it. The Devils is a 1971 British film taken from actual events of the 17th century – ripped from the headlines of a French gazette, if…
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 actor Sidney Poitier. I opened the door to my home and heard my wife crying. Out loud. As she is not one who finds herself openly…
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 director and actor Peter Bogdanovich. 1968’s Targets gave Bogdanovich his start as a director. Boris Karloff plays a retiring horror actor while Tim O’Kelly serves 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 are letting the turmoil of the holidays get to us, with another hodgepodge of movies that probably escaped your attention. Let us inform you, hopefully while entertaining you. The Steagle…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, let’s get crazy to usher in 2022. And while we are at it, let’s start demanding that each new year has to be better than the one it is replacing. 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 examine a trio of Christmas movies, or at least movies which have the Christmas season as part of the scenery. We are entering the fray here, about whether or not…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, Hit Men take center stage – guys who kill for money and say “It’s not personal, it’s just business.” You know the phrase if you’ve ever been fired from a job….
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, Grindhouse Classics are the topic. Violence, sex and child kidnapping all come crashing over the spillway in a flood of exploitation. Pass the popcorn, please. There is a place in Los…
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 head to the East Coast to take a bite out of the Big Apple. Here are three films which deal with NYC’s gritty, noirish image – with wine pairings for…
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 let our freak flag fly with three movies set in the turbulent times of the late 1960s – when pot was a protest, music was magical and all California wine…