Danny Kaye was one of my family’s favorite entertainers when I was a kid. His movie career was (mostly) before my time, although I relished seeing his films on television. His variety show in the mid-’60s we never missed. It was a bittersweet joy when he skipped that giant circle around the soundstage. It was…
When I was in college – way back when – the student center had a room where a different video each week was piped in and played continuously. I would plop down between classes – when we weren’t drinking something horrible at the school newspaper office – and catch fifteen minutes or so of whatever…
When I first saw the classic sci-fi movie, “Them!,” I didn’t know the meaning of needing a drink. Today, I do. It’s a wonder this film didn’t make me seek out my parents’ wine stash years earlier than I eventually did. Water Is Never Enough. The trailer blazes the words: Terror – Horror – Excitement…
Pairing wine with certain movies requires a leap of faith. How would you really feel having fava beans and Chianti while watching “Silence Of The Lambs”? Arsenic And Old Lace presents a similar difficulty. Frank Capra’s film rendition of Arsenic And Old Lace stars Cary Grant as a newlywed who discovers his two sweet, old aunts are…
We’re giving away two pairs of tickets to this Saturday’s presentation of Election at the TFH/Barnsdall School Nights series! Ron Yerxa, the film’s producer will be there to introduce the screening. The tickets include the wine and beer tasting portion of the event. Just e-mail us at tfhcontests@gmail.com to drop your name in the hat….
To make the return to late night study sessions a little less painful, Trailers From Hell has partnered with Barnsdall Art Park Foundation to present a screening series of classic and cult films set in high school (including TFH Guru Allan Arkush’s Rock ‘n’ Roll High School). Here’s the official lowdown from the fine folks at Barnsdall: Adolescent angst. Raging hormones. Twisted teachers. Barnsdall Art…
Drive Hard, Brian Trenchard-Smith’s latest ‘Crime Against Cinema’ is all over VOD this week (see the links at the end of this post) and to commemorate the release, Entertainment Weekly talked with BTS about all things car and crime-related, including a run-down of Brian’s favorite heist films. You can see the EW interview here. And…
Our Fearless Leader’s new film, Burying The Ex, premieres today at the Venice Film Festival. The touching story of “Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, girl becomes flesh-eating zombie” showcases four terrific young actors, Anton Yelchin (Star Trek, Fright Night), Ashley Greene (The Twilight Saga), Oliver Cooper (Project X) and True Detective‘s Alexandra Daddario. Here‘s an interview with…
Brian Trenchard-Smith has, by his own estimation, directed “42 crimes against cinema”… which brings us to his latest filmmaking infraction, Drive Hard starring John Cusack and Thomas Jane. From RLJ/Image Entertainment, Drive Hard will be available via VOD this week on September 4 and in theaters and on iTunes on October 3. The action/adventure film was written by Brian…
A friend passed on these pieces of moviemaking memorabilia. They’re call sheets for Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments starring, naturally, Charlton Heston and a cast of thousands. These sheets are are directed to just a few of those thousands but the production minutiae gives us some insight into the backbreaking attention to detail that went into…
Our friends at Maxam Inc. (a dvd and film distributor in Japan) have just released a brand new compilation of their favorite commentaries from TFH. While we wait for our own copies, here’s a message straight from our tomodachi in Tokyo: The filmmakers of Trailers From Hell, whose movies we’re so addicted to, talk about…
If you are in the mood for an unhinged parody of the beach-blanket-teen-flesh movies of the early to mid-’60s – and when are you not in the mood for that? – “Lord Love A Duck” is where you should go. Duck pairs wonderfully with wine and the movie gives flight to the “groovy” part of…
Orson Welles wrote, directed and co-starred in “Touch of Evil” in 1958, at the end of what might be considered film noir’s golden era. It was right at the end of Welles’ golden era, too. He had been packing on the pounds by this point in his career, and was also drinking too much. In…