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Every week, Radio Milwaukee's Dori Zori and Milwaukee Film’s Kristopher Pollard talk about movies in theaters, streaming at home or wherever they might be, as well as Milwaukee's film scene.
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Every week, Radio Milwaukee's Dori Zori and Milwaukee Film’s Kristopher Pollard talk about movies in theaters, streaming at home or wherever they might be, as well as Milwaukee's film scene.
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18 SEP 2024 · Dori Zori is on a wing of her own with writer, director and star East Forest for a conversation about mental health, magic and mushrooms, as well as the new film Music for Mushrooms.
Produced and Edited by Marcus Doucette
11 SEP 2024 · Beetlejuice is back baby! Dori and K-Polly give it the old Cinebuds back rub. The 2024 version is gonna be playing for a bit at the historic Oriental Theater, and the way our cinematic duo tell it, you'll probs want to go see it. They reminisce over the original 1988 film and its more recent tranformation; role reprises, career arcs and even the dope new soundtrack. Plus, they talk about a couple of other films they've been viewing, like The Fall Guy and the documentary Lover of Men.
Produced and Edited by Marcus Doucette
4 SEP 2024 · Dori Zori of 88Nine x Kristopher Pollard of MKE Film x Tom Crawford of WMSE = wow! Big conversation. Past present and future. Cinema is just the tip of the iceberg, pop your own popcorn.
Produced and edited by Marcus Doucette
28 AUG 2024 · A 93 on Imdb, Sing Sing is a movie about a man falsely accused and Dori and Kristopher have some thoughts. Sounds serious but, in truth, a comedy of sorts.
Divine G (Colman Domingo), imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group with other incarcerated men. When a wary outsider joins the group, the men decide to stage their first original comedy, in this stirring true story of resilience, humanity, and the transformative power of art, starring an unforgettable ensemble cast of formerly incarcerated actors.
Also, further thoughts on the new Deadpool film and Kristopher revisits all the X-Men movies...
-produced and edited by Marcus Doucette
21 AUG 2024 · M. Night Shyamalan's latest film is called "Trap," but what do Dori and Kristopher Pollard think about it?
Produced and edited by Marcus Doucette
14 AUG 2024 · “Creepy kids” is practically a movie genre unto itself, especially if you broaden the scope and rightfully include films like Baby Geniuses and characters like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjKuMCJqdW4. Generally, though, these spooky little squirts are a well-deserved subset of horror that’s ripe for conversation — including the one in this episode of Cinebuds.
The easy thing to do would be to just jump into examples and rattle off a list, but that isn’t their style. Our film-loving duo digs down to the foundation and determines what qualifies as a “creepy kid” movie. What age is prime “creepy kid” territory? What are the tropes that connect these films? How did Martin Short find his way into the subgenre?
Produced and edited by Marcus Doucette
7 AUG 2024 · Cinebuds on the sound board with Immortal Girlfriend talking about the Milwaukee duo's past, present and future.
-Produced and edited by Marcus Doucette
31 JUL 2024 · Are you tired of the multiverse? The Marvel Cinematic Universe? The universe in general? Do we have a movie for you — as long as you’re down for a movie that ridicules those things while also being kind of reverential about them???
There’s really only one Marvel character who could handle such an assignment: the fourth-wall-breaking, wise-cracking, foul-mouthed Deadpool. But the part Ryan Reynolds was born to play is only half of the cinematic equation in the latest MCU offering. Hugh “I’ll never play Wolverine again” Jackman is, of course, back as Wolverine to provide the gravitas to Reynolds’ goofiness — a balancing act that gets a lot of attention from Dori and Kpolly in this episode.
That’s really what the success or failure of Deadpool & Wolverine rides on. If it’s too smarmy and self-referential, there’s no substance for Wolverine to dig his adamantium into. If it’s too substantial, then we’re missing out on the smarm of a Deadpool movie. For one of our Cinebuds, the movie got it just about right.
Produced and edited by Marcus Doucette
24 JUL 2024 · Even if you really love movies, you likely have at least one genre that’s sectioned off with caution tape. For Dori, it’s romance. So when Kpolly approached her with an unapologetically romantic selection for this episode, her instinct was to turn tail and head the other way. Then he said the magic words:
“It’s Icelandic.”
OK, not the most traditional of magic words. But it was at least enough to pique Dori’s interest and get her eyeballs on the film at the center of their conversation: Touch.
This story from household name Baltasar Kormákur is miles away from the rom-coms that have very nearly ruined romances for Dori. It’s a decade-spanning journey one man takes to track down his first love, and of course there are very dramatic stakes involved. There are also not one but THREE languages featured in the film, which allowed our Cinebuds to check off the rare “trilingual Icelandic romance” off their genre bucket list.
So did Touch completely restore Dori’s belief in love (or movies about love anyway)? Or was it an obvious attempt to get her to cry in public?
Produced and edited bt Marcus Doucette
10 JUL 2024 · Kristopher Pollard and Dori Zori are joined by Radio Milwaukee's Jen Ellis as they talk about the new biker flick, The Bikeriders. Over the course of a decade, a Midwestern motorcycle club evolves from a gathering place for local outsiders to a sinister gang, threatening the original group's way of life. Tom Hardy, Austin Butler and Jodie Comer lead a strong cast capturing an era of motorcyle clubs transitiononing into gangs, and the consequences that become inevitable and deadly.
Our hosts also dive into Chicagoland accents, as well as vintage bikes and style.
-Produced and edited by Marcus Doucette
Every week, Radio Milwaukee's Dori Zori and Milwaukee Film’s Kristopher Pollard talk about movies in theaters, streaming at home or wherever they might be, as well as Milwaukee's film scene.
show more
Every week, Radio Milwaukee's Dori Zori and Milwaukee Film’s Kristopher Pollard talk about movies in theaters, streaming at home or wherever they might be, as well as Milwaukee's film scene.
show less
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