Every week, Kristopher Pollard from Milwaukee Film and Radio Milwaukee’s Dori Zori talk about movies — because that’s what you do when you’re Cinebuds.
The divide between people who review things for a living and regular folk has existed since before Robert Green called Shakespeare “an upstart crow” back in 1592. The years since have brought us Mozart (“too many notes”), Psycho (“falls quite flat”) and Taylor Swift’s discography, post-folklore.
It sounds like we can add Wicked: For Good to the list. The second half of the movie based on the Broadway production based on the 1995 novel by Gregory Maguire has put critics on one side of the yellow brick road and fans on the other. Fortunately, we have just the duo to close that gap.
Dori and Kpolly step into this episode relatively fresh from seeing the final chapter of the green-and-pink saga, and play out the internal struggle of critic vs. fan for your listening enjoyment. Despite imbibing Wicked: For Good with a side of critical pans and outright distaste, our duo’s take is a horse of a different color.
The power of friendship, the connections to 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, the adorable CGI animals — it all seemed to work just fine for them. Better than fine, in fact, with one of our hosts taking note of the younger members of the theater audience and saying (on the podcast), “This is going to stick with them for the rest of their lives.”
Get the full report using the player at the top of the page or wherever you find your podcasts, and make sure you stick around until the end for more recommendations and special details about the Cinebuds Live event coming up Dec. 11.
Actually, we’ll just give you that second part now: If you haven’t gotten your ticket for the very exciting screening of Scrooged and live taping of the podcast at the Oriental Theatre, go to the Milwaukee Film website and enter the creative code “SCROOGED” at checkout for $3 off.
