Vintertainment: Wine and Movie Pairing

Sen Us Your Thoughts! SPOOKTOBER begins here at Wine and…! We’re kicking things off in style with a discussion on the best, most fascinating, most feminist, most empathetic, most Gothic and Goth Batman movie ever made, BATMAN RETURNS!!! We’re joined by comic book creator Richard Fairgray . Richard is currently working on the 4-part series The Ex-Wives of Frankenstein . It should also be noted : Ri...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! SPOOKTOBER begins here at Wine and…! We’re kicking things off in style with a discussion on the best, most fascinating, most feminist, most empathetic, most Gothic and Goth Batman movie ever made, BATMAN RETURNS!!! We’re joined by comic book creator Richard Fairgray . Richard is currently working on the 4-part series The Ex-Wives of Frankenstein . It should also be noted : Ri...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! The joke comic that turned into a sincere dramedic epic, today we tackle the first third of the series as collected in the BIG HARD OMNIBUS Vol. 1 Matt Fraction is a long-time indie comics and Marvel writer, and now the co-creator of the tv show MONARCH: LEGACY OF MONSTERS with Chris Black. Be sure to check out our previous interview with Chris about the tv show SEVERANCE and...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Chris is an Exec Producer and Writer on Severance Season 1. He's been writing TV since the mid-90's! Weird Science, Sliders, Cleopatra 2525, Star Trek: Enterprise, Desperate Housewives, Mad Men, Ugly Betty, Lone Star, Outcast, Invincible, Severance (which is why he's here today), and most recently, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Chris oversaw the Severance Season...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! The best TV show of 2022, sez us! This is the first in a 5-part series covering all of Severance Season 1, the show created by Dan Erikson, directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle, and starring Adam Scott. Part 1: How Did This Get Made? Part 2: Episodes 1-3 (and wine pairings with those episodes) Part 3: Episodes 4-6 (and wine pairings with those episodes) Part 4: Episodes...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! The best TV show of 2022, sez us! This is the first in a 5-part series covering all of Severance Season 1, the show created by Dan Erikson, directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle, and starring Adam Scott. Part 1: How Did This Get Made? Part 2: Episodes 1-3 (and wine pairings with those episodes) Part 3: Episodes 4-6 (and wine pairings with those episodes) Part 4: Episodes...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! The best TV show of 2022, sez us! This is the first in a 5-part series covering all of Severance Season 1, the show created by Dan Erikson, directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle, and starring Adam Scott. Part 1: How Did This Get Made? Part 2: Episodes 1-3 (and wine pairings with those episodes) Part 3: Episodes 4-6 (and wine pairings with those episodes) Part 4: Episodes...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! The best TV show of 2022, sez us! This is the first in a 5-part series covering all of Severance Season 1, the show created by Dan Erikson, directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle, and starring Adam Scott. Part 1: How Did This Get Made? Part 2: Episodes 1-3 (and wine pairings with those episodes) Part 3: Episodes 4-6 (and wine pairings with those episodes) Part 4: Episodes...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! The artist on the brand new Toxic Avenger comic talks the OG Troma movie that started it all! And what do you drink with toxic? Fred Harper has a background in fine art, caricature art, editorial art, mural art, and more, but he always comes back to comics, baby. The new Toxic Avenger is written by fellow artist Matt Bors and the two are putting together something seriously s...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! With special guest BRYANT DILLON , President and co-founder of Fanbase Press, the GLAAD Media Award-winning and Eisner and Harvey Awards-nominated comic book publisher and geek culture website. Bryant hosts his own weekly podcast, The Fanbase Weekly, which can be found, much like ours, wherever fine podcasts are cast, and on fanbasepress.com Fanbase Press is celebrating its u...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Today we tackle the Chinese sci-fi sensation, the first book in the "Remembrance of Earth's Past" trilogy by Liu Cixin, the first Asian winner of the Hugo Award. THE WINES WE PAIRED WITH THIS ALBUM! Dallas' Wine Filipa Pato 'Dinamica' Bairrada Branco 2023 A blend of 80% Bical and 20% Arinto that has been aged for 5-6 months on the lees. 11.5% abv...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! "Exuma" is the stage name of Bahamian musician, Tony Mackey (or "Tony McKay"), and this album was the key inspiration for Jordan Peele's NOPE movie! THE WINES WE PAIRED WITH THIS ALBUM! Dallas' Wine HOMEMADE BEET WINE Recipe can be found on our Substack Dave's Wine Carpano Antica Formula Vermouth Support the show Our Sponsor: CURATED WINE SH...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Today we tackle the 2017 movie FIRST MAN directed by Damien Chazelle (WHIPLASH, LA-LA-LAND) and starring Ryan Gosling and Claire Foy , a biopic about Neil Armstrong and the first moon landing. We're joined by special guest, new father and otherwise actor, CURTISS FRISLE (yes, Curtiss with two "esses", that's not a typo!) Curtiss has appeared on Criminal Mi...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Concrete Park was released in 2 volumes via Dark Horse Comics in 2014 and 2015. Co-written by screenwriter Tony Puryear and actress Erika Alexander and additionally illustrated and lettered by Puryear, this book is something else, folks! Think of it as an urban sci-fi Game of Thrones. And a sort-of retelling of the white man coming to Australia, but in this case it's a m...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! In Part 2 we pick up with special guest, poet and comics writer Anas Abdulhak and talk Tracks 4-15 + the wine pairings! Anas has written Elutheromania , Objects in the Mirror , and Etheres . We actually featured ETHERES elsewhere on our Substack! a video + a written Q&A with Anas , go search that out. Anas is currently hard at work on the unSEEN/unHEARD Anthology , a comi...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! Today's guest is poet and comics writer, Anas Abdulhak. Anas has written Elutheromania , Objects in the Mirror , and Etheres . We actually featured ETHERES elsewhere on our Substack! a video + a written Q&A with Anas , go search that out. Anas is currently hard at work on the unSEEN/unHEARD Anthology , a comic anthology with stories from new voices from the disabilit...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! OR, for additional bonus content, interactive chats, polls, and the UNCUT version of this episode, join us on our Substack at: https://wineand.substack.com THE MOOR is a new indie horror film, released 7/1/2024 in the UK but still to come for the rest of the world - keep an eye out for it! The film had its World premiere in the "First Blood" strand of FrightFest, a...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! OR, for additional bonus content, interactive chats, polls, and the UNCUT version of this episode, join us on our Substack at: https://wineand.substack.com Benighted is the second novel by J.B. Priestly, both his first and second were published in 1927, though he didn't hit it big with the public until his third novel, The Good Companions which came out in 1929. Benighte...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! OR, for additional bonus content, interactive chats, polls, and the sometimes longer UNCUT episodes, join us on our Substack at: https://wineand.substack.com Today's guest is screenwriter KATE REUSCHEL , a wine creative, writer and educator who specializes in Portuguese wine. She writes the Substack SURVIVES ON WINE , which is where I discovered her. She comes from a 15+...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! OR, for additional bonus content, interactive chats, polls, and the sometimes longer UNCUT episodes, join us on our Substack at: https://wineand.substack.com Today's guest is screenwriter KATE REUSCHEL , a wine creative, writer and educator who specializes in Portuguese wine. She writes the Substack SURVIVES ON WINE , which is where I discovered her. She comes from a 15+...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! OR, for additional bonus content, articles, interactive chats, polls, and the fully UNCUT version of this episode (22 more minutes of discussion!) join us on our Substack at: https://wineand.substack.com Follow all things Bryan Talbot at: https://www.bryan-talbot.com You can download Bryan's very first Luther Arkwright short comic and many other rare, OOP Talbot comics a...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! OR, for additional bonus content, interactive chats, polls, and the fully UNCUT version of this episode (which includes discussion of EMOTION SIDE B), join us on our Substack at: https://wineand.substack.com Today's guest is screenwriter MARK PALERMO ( Detention ), who also hosts his own excellent movie-themed podcast, MOVIES AND CHAOS . Follow Mark on: Instagram Faceboo...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! OR, for additional bonus content, interactive chats, polls, and more, join us on our Substack at: https://wineand.substack.com Today's guest is STRIKER REESE , the founder of ANIME AND WINE , the site where he...you guessed it!... pairs wine with anime . A man after our own heart. Striker is a wine lover and educator and is WSET Level 2 Certified (a fancy schmancy wine k...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! For the full UNCUT version of this episode - 16 additional minutes! - plus bonus content, interactive chats, polls, and more, join us at: https://wineand.substack.com Dallas picked our first music album to discuss, the 1972 album by the hugely influential and batshit crazy German prog-adjacent/experimental band, CAN. We discuss the recording of the album, CAN as a whole, then...

Sen Us Your Thoughts! For the full UNCUT version of this episode - 20 additional minutes! - plus bonus content, interactive chats, polls, and more, join us at: https://wineand.substack.com 1st episode! Canadian filmmaker and podcaster extraordinaire, Justin Decloux ( Impossible Horror, Teddy Bomb ), joins us for an epic chat about the 2008 feature film SPEED RACER, directed by The Wachowski Sister...