Vintertainment: Wine and Movie Pairing

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Today, for Mom's Day, we tackle the 1987 feature film directed and co-written by Charles Shyer (Father of the Bride) and produced and co-wrritten by Nancy Meyers (Father of the Bride, Private Benjamin). The cast is STACKED - Dianne Keaton, Harold Ramis, James Spader, Sam Shephard, Victoria Jackson, Sam Wanamaker. It features a very 80's baby and is ostensibly a femi...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Today we interview HALEY SIMS , who plays the dead wife that haunts Adam Driver's Caesar Catalina in MEGALOPOLIS. Haley tells us all about her experience auditioning, filming, stunt training, wrapping multiple times, and attending the premiere of the film. You might have spotted Haley on the TV shows such as DEAD TO ME, RESERVATION DOGS, GOOD GIRLS REVOLT, and FLAKED, an...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Here’s PART TWO of our coverage of Francis Ford Coppola’s Alpha and Omega of his career. Make sure you check out PART ONE where we cover The Godfather (1972) and the rise, almost fall, then final sell-off of Coppola’s winery empire in Napa, Sonoma, and Oregon. Here in PART TWO we cover the Omega, MEGALOPOLIS (2024) . And taste two well-aged Coppola wines - a 1998 Niebaum-Copp...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! We saw Sinners in the theater this past weekend, and wanted to do a quick mini-episode covering why it's an important movie at this time in cinematic history. In part because of the Rights Reversion deal director Ryan Coogler struck with the studio, also because it's a true-blue tentpole crowd pleaser with more on its mind - a combination we'd lost for a while...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Today is the first of THREE PARTS (well, two main parts + a bonus companion "Vinterview"!) In this episode we cover the Alpha of Coppola's career, THE GODFATHER (1972) . In PART TWO we'll cover the Omega, MEGALOPOLIS (2024) . And then taste two well-aged Coppola wines and say which wine pairs best with which film. Along the way, we'll also chronicle t...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Also known as Houdini & Company, The Robbery, The Incident, and (our favorite) Shag-O-Rama . The Linguini Incident was the directorial debut of Richard Shepard, the man who would finally get out of “movie jail” when he made 2004’s Matador (starring Pierce Brosnan), then went on to make The Hunting Party (starring Richard Gere), Dom Hemingway (starring Jude Law), and The P...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! This week we tackle the latest album of a band that's been blazing a trail through the music scene for 2 decades now. Combining boroque British folk, a prog rock structure, and Americana (blues, country, American folk) the band has been featured on the sitcoms THE OFFICE and PARKS AND REC and had their 2015 THE KING IS DEAD top the Billboard 200 upon release. Yet somehow...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! What's that? Y'all are deep into Season 3 already? Yeah, yeah, we slow. BUT, we are finally on this White Lotus train thanks to our special guest, BETH LISOGORSKY of Beth's Film and TV Recommendations fame! Beth is a film and TV analyst and pop culture critic. She’s written for PopMatters, Valleywag (part of Gawker media), The Boston Globe, and The Jerusalem Po...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! From corner bars to Michelin stars, Liz Mendez hails from the Midwest and over the years has developed a portfolio career in wine, tech, and radio, spending three decades immersed in the restaurant industry. She is an award-winning sommelier and a previous owner of a Chicago wine bar, though she hit the reset button when she began working in hospitality technology with Americ...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! When superstar Rick James passed away in 2004, an autobiography was rushed out to the public. But biographer David Ritz was never satisfied with that edition, and many years later releaed this definitivie edition, GLOW: The Autobiography of Rick James .  Cobbled together from numerous letters and diary entries that James had written in prison and after, mixed with stories tol...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Yes, we have a new name! This episode is a recap of who we are, where we came from, where this podcast came from, what this podcast will be going forward, and a shout-out to our favorite eisodes of the past, so you can cherry pick previous episodes before OBVIOUSLY following us into the future. FIND ALL THINGS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE HERE. Support the show Our Sponsor: CURA...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Joe Kelly is best known for his charater-defining run on DEADPOOL - the movies are heavily based on the comics that bear his name, and no other writer has truly strayed rom Kelly's rendition. He also made a spash with the creator-owned Image Comics series I KILL GIANTS with artist Ken Nimura, which was later made into the feature film of the same name starring Madison Wo...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Happy Valentine's, Galentine's, Broentine's (no, really) Day! Let's celebrate humans loving other humans + the very concept of romance itself, which is a beautiful thing. Today we celebrate by covering our respective fave romantic movies of all time: Dallas: ROMEO + JULIET (1996) Paired with (AI-free search links): 2022 Tres Raices 'Tre' Sangiove...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Plus our fave American Football movies and which Barefoot wines we'd pair with them. Watch the Superbowl FOR FREE this year on TUBI Barefoot Wine Website Follow Barefoot and Jen on Instagram: Barefoot IG Jen Wall IG It's our SEASON 2 PREMIERE! So a special episode was called for. We sit down with Barefoot Wine's winemaker, Jen Wall , to discuss how Barefoot bec...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! We try THREE of Snoop Dogg's 19 Crimes wines ( Cali Red, Cali Rose, and Cali Gold [sparkling]) and see if they pair with his 2008 Xmas album! Thank you so much for listening to us during our first year alive as a podcast. We'll be back soon-ish in 2025 with a whole new Season 2! Check ya then, and make sure to follow us on Substack and/or the socials below in the in...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Penultimate (I love that word, I don’t really know why) episode of 2024! Today we tackle the directorial debut of Duncan Jones, son of David Bowie, and his shockingly good use of split screen to make a doppelganger movie like no other with actor Sam Rockwell. We’re joined writer by Jessica Maison , novelist of the PASTIC GIRL Trilogy and graphic novelist of the MARY SHELLEY’S...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! A rare Thanksgiving movie in a sea of Xmas movie porn, this is straight up my all-time fave holiday movie. I saw it in the theater back in 1995, and it has stayed with me all thee years. The second directorial effort by Jodie Foster, starring the insane ensemble cast of Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Geraldine Chapman, Dylan McDermott, Claire...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Today we finally drop the episode covering the winner of our first Substack subscriber poll ! BREASTS AND EGGS is the first novel from award-winning Japanese author Mieko Kawakami to be translated into English (though her other novels have all been translated in the few years since!) Kawakami is a failed J-Pop singer (she released 2 albums during a J-Pop decline) who discover...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! In this episode we tackle the British "comedy panel" show where different celebrities (mostly comedians) compete to accomplish a number of creative tasks in the most outlandish and/or embarassing ways possible. We cover all of the first "Series" (what the Brits call a "season") which ran 6 episodes back in 2015. We're joined by special guest...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Make sure to listen to Part 1 where we discuss the history of the band, the album, and talk about the wines we chose to pair with it! Today, we go track by track through the album to showcase just how lovely every single song is, and what a tragedy it was that the band fell apart in the making of the album. We're joined by San Francisco-based Sommelier and music-trained...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! What a shit shitty week in America, folks. To "celebrate", we're tackling the abulm THE CIVIL WARS by the band The Civil Wars - their second and final album, as they underwent their own civil war in the making of it! While they were not in a romantic relationship, this is nevertheless considered one of the great "breakup" albums alongside Fleetwood Ma...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Happy Halloween! To celebrate, we tackle the scariest, most terrifying subject matter we could think of: POLITICAL. ELECTIONS. And America's own election is a scant few days away. So let's watch something that's going to make us laugh and feel GOOD. ELECTION is the second feature film by Oscar-winning director/writer Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Holdovers) ba...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! WHO'S THERE is oe of two films that that aren't available anywhere, but anyone *can* gain access to see them, *IF* they take direct action and DM the director their Top 3 Horror Films, and Top 3 *Demonic* Horror Films. The director is Mike Pecci and you can DM him on Instagram at inlovewiththeprocesspod . DM him your Top 3 Horror films and he''ll send you...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! The 4th live action Hellboy feature film, the second reboot, this time aiming for a lower budget (~$20M) folk horror themed entry witha younger Hellboy and a story pulled straight from the comics. How does it stack up to the previous three? We're joined today by special guests JON WESTHOFF and MATT HARDING , bth hailing from the indie comic book landscape. Jon Westoff is...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! The writer of HAUNTED HEART joins us to tell the epic tale of how this movie got made. 16 years from script to screen, directed by Academy-Award winning director, Fernando Trueba, and starring Matt Dillon and Aida Folch. Rylend Grant has written for the likes of JJ Abrams, John Woo, F Gary Gray, Daveed Diggs, Adam Winguard, Ridley Scott, Justin Lin, and Penelope Cruz. But Hau...