Archive - Vintertainment: Wine and Movies

BURT (2025) - The $7,000 Breakout Feature Paired With Wines to Match Its Real Life Protagonists

A movie everybody needs in their life. With wines that stay light on their feet while representing heavy styles.

Jul 22 • Dave Baxter

1:17:58

BALLISTIC: ECKS VS. SEVER (2002) The Worst Reviewed Movie on Rotten Tomatoes Paired with Maligned Wines

We revisit a childhood favorite, which somehow has always had an utterly abyssmal reputation, and find out if it's as bad as people say it is.

Jul 9 • Dave Baxter and Dallas D Miller

1:57:58

THE NAPA BOYS (2025) - The Fake Sequel to Sideways Paired With the Shittiest Pinot Noir in the World

With special returning guest "Decarceration" of From the Yard to the Arthouse Substack fame! This one is CRASS, people. Read at your own risk.

Jul 2 • Dave Baxter

1:29:55

June 2026

SIDEWAYS (2004) Paired with Wines That Embody its Characters

"The Sideways Effect". "The French Paradox", how both dovetailed to alter the American wine industry, and why this movie still matters.

Jun 24 • Dave Baxter

1:13:47

ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017) w/ Screenwriter Mark Palermo: Paired with Wines - and a Hard Ice Cream Float - that Embody the Punk Rock…

When is a horror movie not a horror movie? The diamond in director Shin'ichiro Ueda's rather insane ouvre.

Jun 10 • Dave Baxter

1:34:40

BOTTLE SHOCK (2008) and The Judgment of Paris Before the Judgment of Paris

Paired with wines that arose in the wake of the real-life event, and which are, frankly, better than this fruit-forward single-note movie deserves.

Jun 2 • Dave Baxter and Dallas D Miller

1:24:25

May 2026

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968) w/ Director Chris McGilvray

The Western to End All Westerns Paired with Texture and Aroma hailing, aptly, from America, Italy, and Spain.

May 26 • Dave Baxter

1:38:13

Director Chris McGilvray talks EDEN (2024) - The Documentary That Asks "What Price Wine?"

A family run vineyard, passionate about the grapes and the wine. But what does it cost them?

May 20 • Dave Baxter and Dallas D Miller

1:04:06

PULSE (2001) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa - "The Best Horror Movie of the 21st Century"

Paired with Loneliness and Blackberry Cobbler.

May 15 • Dave Baxter and Dallas D Miller

1:29:18

VALLEY GIRL (1983) w/ No-Budget Filmmaker Courtney Daniels

Paired with the last remains of a memory, a winery founded by a couple (once) in love, and a Valley Girl for Gen Z.

May 7 • Dave Baxter and Dallas D Miller

1:28:43

PORTO (2017) - Paired with Bojador Vinho de Talha Branco and Moscatel de Setúbal

We raise a glass to actor Anton Yelchin on the 10th anniversary of his death at the far-too-young age of 27.

May 2 • Dave Baxter and Dallas D Miller

1:32:18

Dave Talks THE BEACH by Alex Garland at Fanbase Weekly (Guest Podcast)

Plus updates on our upcoming Wine Cellar Cinema microcinema! It's almost here!

May 1 • Dave Baxter

1:45:40

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