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…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. Remnants of Halloween candy wrappers still litter the floor and the jack-o-lantern on the porch has not yet been completely consumed by the squirrels, so we’re still in the mood for a few…
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 Halloween, ya know. For those of us who grew up on weekend viewings of Shock Theater, Fear Theater, Scare Theater – or whatever your local station called its collection 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, still more movies you never heard of. That’s right, we ran out of theme ideas again. I’m sure we’ll be all better next week. People who know me know better than…
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 trick-or-treaters breathing down our necks with a few comical ghost stories. 1964 brought us The Comedy of Terrors from American International Pictures. Mixing comedy and horror makes me…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week TFH Guru Brian Trenchard-Smith takes us on a cinematic journey to The Land Down Under. Of course, there are wine pairings for each. The Nightingale is a 2018 Australian western set…
1962 found Great Britain and West Germany collaborating on an action picture, Station Six Sahara. The movie is a remake of 1938’s S.O.S. Sahara. Carroll Baker plays a beautiful woman who turns up at a tiny oil pipeline station in the desert. She and her husband just happen to be driving along, three days from…
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 deal with a future that looks like the past and serves as the present. Of course, there are wine pairings for each. Filmmakers from the U.S., New Zealand 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 get three movies we can listen to as well as watch. We’ll have appropriate wine pairings for these Jazzed Up films. Round Midnight is the 1986 film about a musician…
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 takes its name from the 1949 movie, Train of Events, which tells various stories as a train hurtles toward an explosive end. Let’s get to watching and drinking…
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 selections are films which offer different views of dysfunction and the corresponding unction, without compunction. And, we’ll try to find some laughs along the way. The 2017 Russian movie, Loveless, actually…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. For this week’s movies, look no farther than the end of your arm. Let’s give the TFH gurus a hand for coming up with these choices. If you ever sat around a campfire…
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 salute to three feline references in the movies. I belong to an online group of people in my neighborhood, which puts forth a daily email blast of my…