Vintertainment
We pair wine with movies, TV, music, books, and comics with guests from both the wine and entertainment industries.
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Part kid adventure a la GOONIES, part summer camp slasher a la FRIDAY THE 13TH, part sci-fi parable a la BLACK MIRROR, we watched and paired wines with the 2025 under-the-radar indie feature MARSHMALLOW.
91% Critic score on Rotten Tomtoes, 86% Audience score.
It had a limited theatrical release back on April 11th, 2025, and is now avilable to rent or buy on VOD/streaming.
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One of the $trange$t comics ever published by Wildstorm Studios, Automatic Kafka ran a mere 9 issues but is nevertheless a series worth revisiting in 2025.
Paired with the tension between different grapes blended together, and adultified versions of childish wines.
Kick DC/Wildstorm to put out a trade paperback collection of it!
Author JOE CASEY himself wrote a 2-part history of the series + a r...
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WINE TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE WEEK:
Which white wine grape shares a parent with Pinot Noir? (Aka, they both came from the same parent grape.)
- Chardonnay
- Sauvignon Blanc
- Riesling
- Muscat of Alexandria
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This week's wines:
GHOSTNOTE WINES Super Santa Cruz
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We’ve been following Matt Battaglia on Substack for a couple of years now, but in his role as a comic creator. (And for those just joining us or with short memories, once upon a time we were “Wine and Comics”, a publication and YouTube show dedicated to precisely that, before expanding out into all types of entertainment/media.)
I purchased Matt’s first full...
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Today we tackle Isabella Rossalini's series of shorts, GREEN PORNO, which originally debuted at Sundance back in 2008.
Then we pair it with a "Green" wine, a "Porno" wine (?!?) and a totally normal wine.
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One of the most criminally forgetten and underseen movies of the 90s! Starring John Hurt and Jason Priestly.
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WINE TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE WEEK
What does the word "dry" mean in terms of wine? When Someone says "This wine is dry," they are referring to:
- A) The dry feeling it leaves in your mouth
- B) The level of bitterness or astringency in the wine
- C) The level of sugar in the wine
- D) The level of alcohol in the wine
Answer by "Sending us a Text" (above, and put your na...
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Welcome to out first “Vinterfication” episode!
Vin-I-fication is what a winemaker does - all the decisions he or she makes - to transform grapes, the raw materials, into a final wine.
And so Vin-TER-fication is when we compare the raw materials of a work of entertanment - the script of a tv episode, movie, or comic - and compare it to the final produced thing.
Today we tackle one of the TV sho...
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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 feminist movie but has...
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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, and most recently she...
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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-Coppola “Cask” Cabernet...
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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 there.
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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 the rise and fall of Co...
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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 Perfection (starring...
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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 neither of us had...
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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 Post. And she watches...
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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 American Express and th...
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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 told by Ritz in James&...
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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.
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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 Wolfe, Imogen Poots...
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