Vintertainment: Wine and Movie Pairing

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Last December, while recording a different episode for this podcast, Dallas and myself discovered that we both had fond memories of a movie titled (ridiculously, but also awesomely) " Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever ” starring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu. We’d both seen it in the theater back in 2002, and…never again since. That’s partly due to the movie largely being unavil...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! THE NAPA BOYS is a brand new comedy that debuted last year at the Toronto Internatuional Film Festival (TIFF) and caused quite a stir. The film follows the two sons of Sideways main characters - Jack, Jr. and Miles, Jr. - and their entire “Napa Boys” crew which has become famous throughout the world because - get this - this is in fact the FOURTH Napa Boys movie in an ever-ex...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! We did BOTTLE SHOCK, so we had to do the better of the two 00's wine movies - SIDEWAYS.  We discuss "The Sideways Effect". "The French Paradox", how both dovetailed to alter the American wine industry, and why this movie still matters. And then pair wines to match certain characters. THE WINES: Korbin Kameron 2021 Merlot, Moon Mountain District, Sonom...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! THIS EPISODE CONTAINS ALL THE SPOILERS! ALL OF THEM! GO WATCH THIS MOVIE BEFORE LISTENING! AND DEFINITELY DO WATCH THIS MOVIE! With special guest, Screenwriter MARK PALERMO , writer of one of my Top 5 movies of all time, DETENTION (2011) . Also podcast host for MOVIES AND CHAOS and writer for the The Retroscope  zine . ONE CUT OF THE DEAD is not-really a horror film that was...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! We finally tackle a WINE movie! And since the 50th anniversary of the Judgment of Paris was last week, we had to cover the (highly fictionalized) movie that was made about the event. We're talking the rather silly and otherwise forgettable BOTTLE SHOCK starring Alan Rickman, Bill Pullman, Chris Pine, and Chris Pine's wig. Dig in for a little wine history, a little f...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Make sure you listen you our VINTERVIEW with Chris which dropped last week! We cover his short films, branded content company, and how he came to direct our favorite wine documentary of the past many years, EDEN (2024) about the Mount Eden Winery and Vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains, considered to have the oldest lineage of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in all of North Americ...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Today’s VINTERVIEW is with filmmaker, branded content creator, and now documentarian Chris McGilvray . We chat with Chris about his narrative short filmmaking, how he quickly realized this was never going to lead to the kind of breakthrough previous generations enjoyed, pivoted to branded content and became a champion of pushing that type of work into more organic and authent...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Dallas asked me: "What's the creepiest movie you've ever seen? Not the scariest - the creepiest." I only had to think about it for a short moment: PULSE. A movie that is creepy, unnerving, unsettling, and so, so easy to sink into. We dive deep into its themes of human lonliness, the rise of the internet and the moment of Y2K, and how PULSE imagines the hum...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! This week we are joined by no-budget filmmaker Courtney Daniels, writer/director of:  WHAT OTHER COUPLES DO   BEDROOM STORY IT’S NOT YOU, IT’S LA And writer of the book Yes You Can: How to Make a Movie for Almost No Money You can follow Courtney's journey as she films her 4th feature at: COURTNEY DANIELS SUBSTACK and COURTNEY DANIELS WEBSITE THE WINES: HUSCH Late Harvest...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Honoring the 10th Anniversary of actor Anton Yelchin's passing in 2016 at the insanely young age of 27. PORTO was released posthumously, and since our own Dave Baxter recenty visited the city of Porto for the first time, and currently sells Portuguese wines in LA as his day job, this seemed like a perfect choice for us to tackle. This is a challenging film, equal parts m...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Sentimental Value is the 6th feature film by Joachim Trier and co-writer Eskil Vogt, and his second partnering with actress Renate Reinsve after The Worst Person in the World in 2021. THE WINES: Zulal Areni, Vayots Dzor, Armenia 2023 K Vintners Art Den Hoed Viognier Support the show Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! From regular SNL short sketches to Super Bowl ad to feature film, MACGRUBER is the dumb aka authentically funny parody of MACGYVER that flopped on arrival but quickly accumulated a cult following and increased recognition with home viewings. Two of those fans are yours truly - having watched MacGruber when Netflix was still shipping phsyical DVDs to my mailbox - and our speci...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Today we tackle Ron Haward's GUNG HO and regret it instantly.  Perfectly inoffensive in 1986, as all Ron Howard movies are; and perfectly offensive in 2026, as all Ron Howard movies are. THE WINES: Viña Marty’s “Goutte d’Argent” Sauvignon Blanc,  Aconcagua,  Chile Japanese old fashioned Support the show Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll h...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Watch Listers ad-free for all on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-wAqplQAo Sign our Petition to List Listers on Letterboxd: https://www.change.org/ListListers Follow our Guest, First Time Filmmaker Avi Setton: https://nondeuprising.substack.com THE WINES: E. Guigal Cote du Rhone Rouge 2022 2017 FE Trimbach Pinot Noir Reserve from Alsace 2023 Planet Mouraz "Pal...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! A Hong Kong cinematographer and practical effects maestro adapts a Japanese manga - watch the blood and body parts fly! THE WINES: 2020 Paringa Estates Mornington Peninsula Shiraz 2018 Kelman Touriga Nacional, Dao, Portugal More context, write-ups, and bonus clips cut from the main episode on the Substack: https://VintertainmentStudios.com Support the show Our Sponsor: CURATE...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! ANIKI-BOBO is the 1942 debut feature of Manoel de Oliveira, who was the oldest still-active filmmaker on the day he died at the age of 106 (!) in 2014!!! I just took my first trip to Portugal , and to celebrate, we had to watch our very first Portuguese movie, which is also pretty close to being the first narrative Portuguese feature film of note in the country’s history. PAI...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Two thematically linked, Academy-Award nomiated documentaries, just in time for the Oscars this week! THE WINES: Santa Julia Natural El Zorrito Orange Chardonnay 2024 La Bascule "Babushka" Rose of Syrah 2022 Elwood Prison Wine Les Vignerons d'Estézargues Alma Viva 2023 Support the show Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! This episode of Vintertainment is dedicated to Brad Allan, the stuntman and eventual action choreographer man who helped usher in Rush Hour, plays the most likeable antagonist ever in Gorgeous , designed the action for Scott Pilgrim , Shang-Chi , Kick-Ass, Wonder Woman, the Kingsman franchise, and more. Brad passed away in 2021 at the age of 48, from a sudden and unexpected h...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! The year was 19 ***ing 64... Today we tackle Hollywood's first big budget attempt to cover the Civil Rights movement and one of the darkest events surrounding it. Its a great conversation. We veer from wanting wines of Tention, then Violence, then Hope. Also a wine that Challenges and forces Contemplation. THE WINES: Bodkin Wines 2022 "Light Skinned" Zinfandel...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Welcome very special guest Nick Langdon - cinephile extraordinaire and Letterboxd powerplayer.  Follow Nick Langdon on SUBSTACK and LETTERBOXD Support the show Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any movie! Curated-Wines.com Come interact with us and support the show at: vintertainmentstudios.com Join us for monthly short...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! SEASON 3 PREMIERE! Welcome very special guests Joe and Carmela Mele, your sommeliers of reasonably priced wines, as they say on their own podcast. One of our very favorite wine podcasts period. THE WINE PAIR PODCAST Support the show Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any movie! Curated-Wines.com Come interact with us and...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Vintertainment Studios Substack The Wine Pair Podcast MEIOMI Episode CASEN POINTE YouTube Series (it's REALLY funny!) Support the show Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any movie! Curated-Wines.com Come interact with us and support the show at: vintertainmentstudios.com Join us for monthly short film screenings ins...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Support the show Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SHOP, mid-city Los Angeles, they'll help you pair wine with any movie! Curated-Wines.com Come interact with us and support the show at: vintertainmentstudios.com Join us for monthly short film screenings inside a wine shop! Each short film paired with a wine! Mid-city Los Angeles! WineCellarCinema.substack.com Follow us on the s...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! A surprisng Christmas movie in the shape of a Spaghetti Western, A PISTOL FOR RINGO is written and Directed by Duccio Tessari, who co-wrote A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS with Sergio Leone, the film that kick-started the Spaghetti Western genre and was thhe first of the Clint Eastwood "Man With No Name" films. Inspired by the succeess of that film, Tessari decided to make his...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Trailers Watched: The Chronology of Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCBwuJ0pKMA Man Finds Tape https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VexyLStKQAQ The Rabbit Hole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-SebLbGTZY&t Rosemead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwQy6jV1QCM Merrily We Roll Along https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKyQEq47Mc Dust Bunny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btzw...