Send us a text 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 fil…

Send us a text 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 '…

Send us a text 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, …

Send us a text 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 an…

Send us a text 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 …

Send us a text 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,…

Send us a text 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 a…

Send us a text 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 speci…

Send us a text 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 Franci…

Send us a text 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 alon…

Send us a text 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 …

Send us a text 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 film…

Send us a text 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…

Send us a text 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 Sc…

Send us a text 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 F…

Send us a text 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 F…

Send us a text 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…

Send us a text 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 …

Send us a text 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 pair…

Send us a text 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 pair…

Send us a text 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 pair…

Send us a text 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 pair…

Send us a text 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…

Send us a text 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 fanbasepr…

Send us a text 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 le…

Send us a text "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 homebase: https:…

Send us a text 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 a…

Send us a text 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 t…

Send us a text 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 th…

Send us a text 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 …

Send us a text 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 "Firs…

Send us a text 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 Compa…

Send us a text 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 …

Send us a text 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 …

Send us a text 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 an…

Send us a text 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…

Send us a text 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 …

Send us a text 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 r…

Send us a text 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 SPEE…