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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.

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You can even join us as you like on our shared LB weekly film club, THE COLLAB

THE WINES:

• Precision Napa Cab
• St Hallett Faith Shiraz “Bagnum” 1.5Liter
• Patroferno Appassimento Puglia Primitivo

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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

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https://www.instagram.com/vintertainmentpod

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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/vintertainmentpod

https://www.instagram.com/winecellarcinemala

https://www.youtube.com/@vintertainmentstudios