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Sen Us Your Thoughts! Microbudget filmmaker Joe Burke spent a decade trying to get a second feature off the ground after his 2013 debut FOUR DOGS. But after all the “no’s”, all the Hollywood rejection, and finally spending months waiting for an A-list actor to add to this list of “no’s”, Joe said “f**k it, I can get $7,000 together and make a movie with Burt Berger. I’m 40 years old, I need to make another movie now, and I love Burt, let’s do it.” Who us BURT BERGER and why is this movie starring him one of the best indie films of the decade? Listen on. THE WINES: Municipal Winemakers “Nowadays” label’s release of Alicante Bouschet from Cucamonga Valley 20222018 King of The Mountain Cuvee from Saddlerock EstateSupport 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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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 unavilable due to rights issues, but mostly because it has the LOWEST RATING OF ANY MOVIE EVER ON ROTTEN TOMATOES!!! That’s right, with 119 professional reviews, that is the highest number of total reviews while still maintaining a splat-tastic 0%. So we were scared. Did we want to ruin this childhood memory? (By “childhood” I mean young adulthood, but you get what we’re saying.) Well, then returning special guest (from our MIRACLE MILE episode) Nicholas Langdon took interest in joining us if we ever covered it on the pod, and we said eff it, let’s do it. Let find out. FOLLOW NICK ON LETTERBOXD You can even join us as you like on our shared LB weekly film club, THE COLLAB THE WINES: Precision Napa CabSt Hallett Faith Shiraz “Bagnum” 1.5LiterPatroferno Appassimento Puglia PrimitivoSupport 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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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-expanding Sideways-sequel franchise which also includes The Napa Girls. The title screen for this film, when it displays, is THE NAPA BOYS 4: THE SOMMELIER’S AMULET. It’s a fake fourth movie of a never-made franchise of a film that never even spawned a sequel let alone a franchise and it is an SNL-style gross-out comedy-fest and it is going to be divisive. We know this because…we were divided! Yes, this is the first episode where we strongly disagreed with a guest regarding their movie. Decarceration had seen it twice and enjoyed it and thought highly of it’s blackly comedic critical lashes while Dallas and myself were…less enthused. We cover the backstory and making of the film, then spend a half hour being painfully polite, trying to express our differences while nodding to the talent involved, etc. But folks, we get INTO IT at around the hour mark. It had to happen eventually! Fight! Fight! Fight! THE WINES: Nicola Centonze’s White House Marsala, Sicily, Italy Meiomi Pinot Noir  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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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, Sonoma (Maya and Victoria)2021 Testamatta Bibi Graetz Toscana (Miles)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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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 made for $30,000 by a director whose ethos was: you need to make 200-300 movies before you can make a single good one! We do argue whether that’s actually necessary, certainly at that nutty number, but one thing is certain: Ueda made something AMAZING with One Cut off the Dead. The film soon reveals itself, and it is a celebratory, life-affirming, wild, comedic, charming, unforgettable filmwatching experience by the time the second (?) credits roll. THE WINES (and Hard Ice Cream Float) FINAL GIRLS WINE 2023 “Frankenfizz” Piquette of Sangiovese2014 Fiddlehead Cellars “728” Pinot Noir, Fiddlestix Vineyard, Sta. Rita HillsVodka Root Beer Float (instructions below)Instructions Split a can of soda between two large glasses and then add a shot of vodka to each.Carefully drop two scoops of either dairy dairy-free ice cream into each glass (if you have an ice cream that is cinnamon or coconut flavored - or both! - it makes it even better), and then top off with remaining can of root beer.Slurp, scoop, and enjoy.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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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 film history, and a lot of rewriting a s****y script in real time. PAIRED WITH (AI-free search links, always): Steven Kent Winery ELEMENTS 4-Pack, Cabernet Franc, Livermore Valley, CaliforniaTerlato & Domaine Chapoutier Lieu-Dit Malakoff Shiraz (Syrah), Pyrenees, Victoria, AustraliaSupport 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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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 America! WATCH CHRIS' DOCUMENTARY EDEN FOLLOW CHRIS: InstagramWebsiteAnd today Chris joins us to talk about a favorite movie - the Western to End All Westerns, Sergio Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST from 1968. PAIRIED WITH: Alegre Valganon Rioja Blanco 2024Pax Syrah, Sonoma Hillsides 2023Borgo Savaian "Aransat" Orange Wine, Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Italy 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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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 authentic expressions, and then segued from that into his first feature length documentary about the Mount Eden Winery in the Santa Cruz Mountains, considered to have the longest lineage of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir in all of North America. We thought this Vinterview would run 20-30 minutes. We had the whole thing Q&A’d scripted out and it was only 5 Q’s! But the conversation evolved organically and we talked at length about the themes of the documentary, themes you rarely see in a Wine doc yet pertain to nearly every aspect of the wine industry. Chris' Short Films: The SilenceDamageOut of NowhereTerroirSupport 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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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 human world might end. Or, perhaps, how it's already ended. PAIRED WITH: 2016 Loma Prieta Amorosa Vineyard Pinotage, Lodi, CA2023 Gambler's Ghost Cabernet Sauvignon, North Coast, CASupport 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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

Sen Us Your Thoughts! This week we are joined by no-budget filmmaker Courtney Daniels, writer/director of:  WHAT OTHER COUPLES DO BEDROOM STORYIT’S NOT YOU, IT’S LAAnd 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 Gewurtztraminer, Anderson Valley, CaliforniaMIRAVAL Provence Rose, Cote du Provence, FranceWhiny Baby "Obsessed" Red, who f*****g knows?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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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 mesmerizing and frustrating, a film that plays with time, rejects psychology, yet is confined to a magical evening between a French woman and an American man in Northern Portugal. THE WINES: 2010 Jose Maria de Fonseca “Alambre” Moscatel de Setubal, Portugal 2022 Bojador Vinho de Talha Branco, Alentejo, Portugal 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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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 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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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 special guest this episode JON STAHL, writer on the TV show VEEP and Fox's HOUSEBROKEN.  You can currently find Jon at his Substack: How Not to be a TV Writer And be sure to watch his YouTube WebSeries: CASEN POINTE: TRUE CRIME DETTECTIVE Also Jon's 4-Part micro-series UPSTAGE THE WINES (and Kombucha): Synergy Trilogy Kombucha 2022 Revelation Vineyards 100% Vidal Blanc Four buck chuck Pinot 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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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 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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios

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 "Palhete" Nina (50/50 Red and Orange Wine) or Find a "Palhete" (pahl-YET) of any kind! A field blend of red and white grapes co-fermented together. 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 socials! https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpodhttps://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemalahttps://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios