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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 (Sideways, The Holdovers) based on the novel by Tom Perrota and starring Reece Witherspoon, Matthew Broderick, Chris Klein, and Jessica Campbell. It was a box office disappointment at the time, but has since gained cult status and Witherspoon's Tracy Flick chararcter has become a pop culture icon.

And this was Dallas' very first time seeing it!

Original Script with original (alternate) ending

Original/Alternate ending from VHS recording

THE WINES:
Dave's Wine Pairing
2021 Private Property Grenache, Santa Lucia Highlands, Monterey Country, Central Coast, California
Cool climate Grenache, easy to mistake for a Pinot Noir with its lighter color, body, and bracing acidity. If SIDEWAY is director Alexander Payne's Pinot movie, then ELECTION is his cool climate Grenache flick.

Raspberry, strawberry, rhubarb, beetroot, sage, salinity, Private Property is the more affordable ($20 - $30/bottle) second label of Caraccioli Cellars (which does Pinot, Gamay, Chardaonnay, for $40 - $100/bottle). Zingy, fresh, a play of birght red fruitiness + acerbicness to match the lively, cutting satire of the film.

Dallas' Wine Pairing
2010 Château de Sales, Pomerol, France
The 2010 Château de Sales Pomerol is known for its complex flavor profile, featuring subtle notes of red fruits, earth, and spice. This complexity mirrors the intricate plot and character dynamics in "Election," where seemingly simple high school politics reveal deeper, more nuanced themes.

The 2010 Pomerol has had time to mature and develop and aged into itself. The film and the wine are elegant and well structured.
It’s rich, velvety texture because of the Merlot base make this an excellent pairing for the film with is also extraordinarily smooth. This smoothness pairs well with the film's dark humor and the character of Tracy Flick, whose ambition appears smooth on the surface but hides a more intense core. Both this 2010 and the film have a long, memorable finish.

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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 films and he''ll send you a link to see "12KM", a film about a drilling team that drills 12 kilometers into the earth and unleashes something horrific.

DM him your Top 3 DEMONIC horror films aka any film featuring a demon or demonic possession, and he'll send you a link to see "WHO'S THERE". Something knocks on doors and you DON'T want to find out "who's there".

Who doesn't want to share their favorite horror movies with a horror film director? You can also listen to our full podcast episode about Mike and these films, if you want to know more. Get to it and happy horror season, y'all.

THE WINES:
Dallas' Pairing:
Gerard Betrand Trouble xp Red, France
Grenache Noir | Syrah
A non-filtered, cloudy, organic, vegan wine. The grapes are harvested separately when perfectly ripe, based on grape tastings performed before the harvest. Each grape variety is vinified separately. Some of the Syrah undergoes cold maceration to preserve the integrity of its aromas, whilst the rest of the Syrah and the Grenache grapes go through traditional maceration (de-stemmed harvest). Vinification is temperature controlled (maximum 25°C). The wine is not filtered or clarified, remaining cloudy. It is matured in vats to preserve its fruity aromas.

Dave's Pairing:
Porto Morgado Ruby (or any Ruby or Late Bottled Vintage [LBV] Port)
One of the best ruby port values out there, this authentic Porto from Portugal is only $10.99 at Trader Joe's across the USA. If you don't live near a TJ's, I'd recommend a Ruby or LBV (Late Bottled Vintage) Port from DOW or Sandeman - skip the Taylor Fladgates, their ports are only okay at best.

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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 comic book landscape.

Jon Westoff is the publisher of "Part Time Comix" and writer of DRUMSTICKS OF DOOM, CHILD POSSESSION SERVICES, DEPOWERED, BULLETPROOF CHICKEN, L.C.S. (Local Comci Shop / Last Comic Shop).
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Matt Harding - Matt is a bay area comic artist and writer who's worked on projects such as Dead Beats 2, All the Devils are Here, Hamilton, GWAR, The Not Forgotten Anthology, Rick and Morty, and Stan Lee's Lucky Man: Bracelet Chronicles. He writes, illustrates, edits, and animates comics in a variety of mediums.
https://www.matthardingart.com
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THE WINES (and Fireballs!)
JON'S FIREBALL
Hellboy 'Hellwater' Cinnamon Whiskey

MATT'S WINE
19 Crimes Frankenstein Cabernet Sauvignon

DALLAS'S WINE
2019 Josh Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon

DAVE'S Wine:
2020 Yves Leccia "E Croce" Patrimonio Rouge (Corsica)

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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 Scott, Justin Lin, and Penelope Cruz. But Haunted Heart was his very first professional screenplay.

Rylend has also written a number of award-winning comics, including BANJAX, THE JUMP, FA SHENG: ORIGINS, THE PEACEMAKERS, and currently being crowdfunded as we speak, THE BREACH, a BLACK MIRROR-esque gritty small town crime drama...you know, if there was a portal to another time/dimension about to open up in said small town, and if there was a massive futuristic army about to kick it's way through and lay waste to said small town.

Check out THE BREACH!

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THE WINES:

Rylend's Wine Pairing:
2001 Falletto di Bruno Giacosa Riserva, Vigna Le Rocche, Barolo DOCG
A well aged Barolo, now at its peak drinking window according to the forecasts. Like the Barolo the characters in the movie drink. Drink 2024 - 2026!

Dave's Wine Pairing:
2009 Domaine Tatsis Goumenissa (50/50 Xinomavro and Negoska blend), Macedonia, Greece
Or, if you're on a budget, this $35 wine tastes so much like a well aged Barolo it isn't funny. Bottled and then held until the winemakers though it was ready, this is a RECENT RELEASE even though it's 15 years old!!!

Dallas' Wine Pairing:
2019 Mylonas Savatiano, Greece
One of the key grapes in many "retsina" wines (wine with pine resin added) this is a rare bottling where the savatiano grape gets to shine on its own, unadulterated.

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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 Frankenstein.

It should also be noted: Richard has a lifelong crush on Danny Devito as The Penguin in BATMAN BEGINS, so our talk does turn spicy and even outright explicit at times. Be forewarned!

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Daniel Waters' unproduced CATWOMAN script:
https://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/catwoman.txt

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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 Frankenstein.

It should also be noted: Richard has a lifelong crush on Danny Devito as The Penguin in BATMAN BEGINS, so our talk does turn spicy and even outright explicit at times. Be forewarned!

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TIM BURTON'S HANSEL AND GRETEL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXeEzpPgCjw

Daniel Waters' unproduced CATWOMAN script:
https://www.scifiscripts.com/scripts/catwoman.txt

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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 with Chris about the tv show SEVERANCE and his working with Matt on Monarch!

Chip Zdarky was a Canadian journalist turned comics writer and artist, with SEX CRIMINALS being his very first.

Today we cover the origins of the series, the super fun stories about its launch party at a Canadian sex club, discuss the story's merits, and of course tell you which wines you should pair with such an outlandish yet strangely grounded work.

THE WINES:
Dallas' Wine
Inniskillin Vidal Ice Wine
An Austrain and an Italian started up a Canadian winery with an Irish name in 1974 and was granted the first winery license by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario since prohibition. Cut to 1991 when they brought Canadian wine into the international limelight by winning the Grand Prix d’Honneur at Vin Expo, France for Karl Kaiser’s 1989 Vidal Icewine.

Icewine is made by allowing grapes to freeze on the vine then crushing them with the juice still frozen. This keeps most of the water out of the high-sugar must that remains, creating a highly concentrated, sweet wine with complex, concentrated flavor.

Inniskillin makes icewine from the Vidal grape, Resling grape, and Cabernet Franc grape. Prices range from $40 - $100+ depending on the vintage and style.

Dave's Wine
2021 Ludovic Montginot Cote du Py Morgon Beaujolais
Morgon is considered one of the premiere areas in the Beaujolais region, and Ludovic Montginot is an actual one-man show tending to his 3 hectares of vineyards and working in his cellar completely unassisted! His Morgon conatins all the freshness and vibrancy of a Beaujolais while also containing a rustic, meaty quality rarely found in this style of wine. A perfect harmony of the frivilous and the serious, much like the Sex Criminals comic, plus Montginot's solitude represents where the comic begins - being alone in the world before finding another to share it with.

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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 oversaw the Severance Season 1 writer's room and is the credited writer on Episode 8 (though as you'll learn in today's interview, which parts of which episode which writer actually wrote gets a bit complicated.)

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 pairings with those episodes)
Part 4: Episodes 7-9 (and wine pairings with those episodes)
Part 5: Interview with Chris Black, Executive Producer and Writer on Severance

CHRIS' BEVERAGE PAIRING:
Cali Squeeze Blood Orange Wheat Ale, Firestone Walker Brewing Company, San Louis Obispo, California
Brewed with real blood orange for maximum refreshment. A crisp, ruby red beer with juicy orange and fresh citrus flavors, that always go down easy. Cali Squeeze is a Hefeweizen (wheat ale) that includes barley malt, malted wheat, toasted wheat, and Cara-malt. Refreshing, low in bitterness, pale yellow, and slightly hazy.
5% ABV, 15 IBU

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