April 22, 2025 • 8 mins
Johnny Oleksinski joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the latest in the movie world including Mikey Madison turning down a Star Wars movie.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This story absolutely blows me away. Johnny Oleczinski is the
New York Post entertainment critic. You heard him in the
last segment, and he's here now to talk about entertainment.
But the Academy Award voters don't have to watch all
the movies they vote on.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Apparently, so watching the Oscars has just been a big
waste of our time.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yes, exactly has anybody admitted to that? Or is just
as in't a rule?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I guess we just accept this long process as it
has been. In fact, this happened the other several years
ago with the Tony Awards. I'm a Tony Award voter,
and it used to be that you just get a
ballot and it's a trust system and you select whatever
it is you want to win. Right, We didn't have
to prove that we'd seen all the shows. And I
(00:47):
knew of producers and other professionals who just hand that
ballot to their assistant and so you saw more. Just
check the boxes for me. And now there actually is
an online portal where you have to select the date
you saw the show. I don't know how they confirm that,
but that's what we do for the Tony's So now
with the oscars, they're going to see on the screening
platform they use, like their Netflix or whatever. If the
(01:09):
people have watched the movie, and then if they go
see it at a film festival or the cineplex, they
have to provide their ticket or have something to prove
that they went.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And you can still get around that, but at least
there's something. Yeah, you know, you can still cheat under
that process, but it does make it so that it's
a little bit that you're actually cheating. It's not just
part of the rules. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't want to call it corrupt necessarily, but you
like to imagine that people aren't just choosing their friends
or voting against people they hate.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Sure, they I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It's like I have a baseball cap that says naive
on it. You know, I know. I'm sure that happens
more than the other. But at least let's just try
to give all these these movies a chance. Do you
think any of them actually watch the short films? I
bet none of them watch any of them, or most
of the documentaries or the documentary. Oh, the documentary is short,
(02:05):
So those poor guys, Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
For an animation, it's not no, no, if you think
about how many movies you would have to watch to
vote on these things? Are you able to vote in
just certain categories? So say I never saw all those
short films, so I could bypass that category, but I'll
go for the main picture or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, that's right, So okay, I would think that if
you on their digital platform. So for the Tonys, for instance,
if I only saw some of the eligible actresses, they know,
you know, by virtue of what movies or rather what
shows I've checked. So this you can vote on any
category where you've seen everything or every one or every
(02:46):
element in it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
How fair has come about because the Nora won Best Movie?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
No, No, I know you're so anti Anora, and I'm
sure many people listening are, and I don't care. I
love it. I think they're just constantly implementing reforms to
stave off any notion that ever since Oscar's so white,
it's just been this snowball of change.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You know why I hate a Nora because it was
the uncomfortable experience in my life, because I had my
sons down to watch it, and I thought, oh, okay,
one sex scene, this will end, this will end, And
it never ended. It was like a porn movie.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You know what annoys me? I come on this dumb
show all the time thinking thinking that maybe that maybe
maybe you read a single word I've ever written. The
first sentence in my Anura review is says the word
stripper in it. So if you want your sons to
come see the movie about a stripper, then that's you
don't want.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That fair, that's completely unfair.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You want them to watch a wholesome movie about the stripper.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I've seen many movies about strippers where they have like
one nude scene. This was constant. This was almost every frame.
It was so gratuitous it was gross.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Wow wow, I said, it's a stripper Cinderella story. We
go from strip club to strip club. I don't if
you just if you do your research before watching an Aura.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Well, I'm glad you loved it, pervert. So wow, Wow, Johnny,
were so nice knowing you. Yeah, I guess you're not
coming in again, but thanks. So you've been wonderful. You've
been really great. No, no, you know I love this
story you have about Pamela Anderson because she got great reviews.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What's the matter this is? This is actually a brilliant
segue I'm just so impressed there.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
That's that I went to Pamela Anderson after the strippers.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, yeah, this is not it isn't abrupt. This is
a very good segue. Continue on about pam I know,
I love.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
What you've written about her. I love what you've written
about her only because I would love to see her
be really extremely successful in her career. What's the next movie?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So this is what's very interesting is she just made
this movie, The Last Showgirl, which I recommend everybody watch it.
She's extremely moving in it. She was nominated for the
sag Award and the Golden Globe, all deservedly so. And
now and that was just a little indie film, which
you'd never well, you never associated her with that kind
of indie.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Film, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And now she's actually going to star in a edgy
play at the Williamstown Theater Festival in the Berkshires. And
it is a Tennessee william It's an old it's not
a street car named Desire or the Glass Menagerie. It's
a lesser known play called Camino Reel, and she plays
a faded courtism. So it's not, you know, the worst
(05:35):
casting ever, but it's going to really test her abilities.
And I've loved this second stage of her career, especially
since you know, she had to deal with so much
tabloid stuff for much of it, which undermined her abilities
and her dreams. Ever since I saw her in Chicago
on Broadway playing Roxy, I was like, you really, you know,
you got a spark that kind of went unacknowledged for
(05:57):
a long time. And so it's just cool seeing her
have this very unexpected second act.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And it's so smart of her. I mean, it's it's
brilliant the way they're handling her career. And but yeah,
to your point, though, you have to have the chops.
You have to have the chops to back this up,
and apparently she does. We can talk about Mikey Madison
again and Anora, that's it because she turned down a
role in Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, so I believe, unlike you, I believe that Mikey
Madison also has the chops. I thought she was brilliant
in that movie, and she won the Oscar I was.
I was pretty glad she beat Demmy Moore. I think
she totally deserved to, and she has just it's just
been revealed that she was asked a star in the
new standalone Star Wars movie called Star Wars Starfighter. What
(06:46):
a title, and she turned it down. It could probably
would have paid her, would have paid her a lot
more than Anora did. But I was thinking, I think
this is a brilliant choice because you think of Bree Larson,
who in the Oscar for that very very good movie
Room a few years ago. She wins Best Actress at
a young age. Then she goes and does the Marvel movies.
(07:06):
Remember Captain Marvel, And it's like she she goes and
does you know, the biggest series in the world, and
disappears off the face of the planet at the same
time Gwyneth Paltrow. Ever since Gwyneth Paltrow entered the Marvel movies,
she's done almost nothing else except goop around. That's all
she does.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
She doesn't need to. She's making a fortune off those
Iron Man movies.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And whatever she sells on that dumb wellness website.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, like the Candles.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And then Daisy Ridley, who was in you know that
was sort of her big break in Star Wars The
Force Awakens. What has she done? I really think these
franchises are giant career ruiners and good on Mikey Madison's
team for recognizing to just slam the door on that.
But Ryan Gosling's going to be in it, let him
do it.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, it did pretty well for Harrison Ford, it did.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But that's you know, few and far between, and he's
had to play Indiana Jones until he was eighty two.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Have you watched him in the series is Shrinking?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I haven't, I hear. It's absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Oh and he's so funny. It's a different kind of
role for him. I highly recommend it. Let's talk about
the Broadway musical Floyd Collins.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
So this premise will not be appealing to everybody. This
is a show about a real story about a cave
explorer one hundred years ago who gets trapped in the cave.
So much of the show we watch this man trapped
in a cave as they try to rescue him. It's
an OK production that stars Jeremy Jordan of Television and
the show Newsy's. The score is absolutely beautiful. It's just
(08:36):
a pleasure to listen to over at Lincoln Center. The script, Ugh,
it's a bottom of the barreler or bottom of the cave,
such as it is. I gave it two and a
half stars because I think it's worth it for a
concert alone.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Really, you just go to listen to the score, close
your eyes.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, and you'll probably get some discount of tickets too.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Thanks a lot, Johnny Oleigzinski, New York Post entertainment critic
This story absolutely blows me away. Johnny Oleczinski is the
New York Post entertainment critic. You heard him in the
last segment, and he's here now to talk about entertainment.
But the Academy Award voters don't have to watch all
the movies they vote on.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Apparently, so watching the Oscars has just been a big
waste of our time.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yes, exactly has anybody admitted to that? Or is just
as in't a rule?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I guess we just accept this long process as it
has been. In fact, this happened the other several years
ago with the Tony Awards. I'm a Tony Award voter,
and it used to be that you just get a
ballot and it's a trust system and you select whatever
it is you want to win. Right, We didn't have
to prove that we'd seen all the shows. And I
(00:47):
knew of producers and other professionals who just hand that
ballot to their assistant and so you saw more. Just
check the boxes for me. And now there actually is
an online portal where you have to select the date
you saw the show. I don't know how they confirm that,
but that's what we do for the Tony's So now
with the oscars, they're going to see on the screening
platform they use, like their Netflix or whatever. If the
(01:09):
people have watched the movie, and then if they go
see it at a film festival or the cineplex, they
have to provide their ticket or have something to prove
that they went.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And you can still get around that, but at least
there's something. Yeah, you know, you can still cheat under
that process, but it does make it so that it's
a little bit that you're actually cheating. It's not just
part of the rules. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
I don't want to call it corrupt necessarily, but you
like to imagine that people aren't just choosing their friends
or voting against people they hate.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Sure, they I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
It's like I have a baseball cap that says naive
on it. You know, I know. I'm sure that happens
more than the other. But at least let's just try
to give all these these movies a chance. Do you
think any of them actually watch the short films? I
bet none of them watch any of them, or most
of the documentaries or the documentary. Oh, the documentary is short,
(02:05):
So those poor guys, Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
For an animation, it's not no, no, if you think
about how many movies you would have to watch to
vote on these things? Are you able to vote in
just certain categories? So say I never saw all those
short films, so I could bypass that category, but I'll
go for the main picture or whatever.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, that's right, So okay, I would think that if
you on their digital platform. So for the Tonys, for instance,
if I only saw some of the eligible actresses, they know,
you know, by virtue of what movies or rather what
shows I've checked. So this you can vote on any
category where you've seen everything or every one or every
(02:46):
element in it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
How fair has come about because the Nora won Best Movie?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
No, No, I know you're so anti Anora, and I'm
sure many people listening are, and I don't care. I
love it. I think they're just constantly implementing reforms to
stave off any notion that ever since Oscar's so white,
it's just been this snowball of change.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
You know why I hate a Nora because it was
the uncomfortable experience in my life, because I had my
sons down to watch it, and I thought, oh, okay,
one sex scene, this will end, this will end, And
it never ended. It was like a porn movie.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
You know what annoys me? I come on this dumb
show all the time thinking thinking that maybe that maybe
maybe you read a single word I've ever written. The
first sentence in my Anura review is says the word
stripper in it. So if you want your sons to
come see the movie about a stripper, then that's you
don't want.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
That fair, that's completely unfair.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You want them to watch a wholesome movie about the stripper.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I've seen many movies about strippers where they have like
one nude scene. This was constant. This was almost every frame.
It was so gratuitous it was gross.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Wow wow, I said, it's a stripper Cinderella story. We
go from strip club to strip club. I don't if
you just if you do your research before watching an Aura.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Well, I'm glad you loved it, pervert. So wow, Wow, Johnny,
were so nice knowing you. Yeah, I guess you're not
coming in again, but thanks. So you've been wonderful. You've
been really great. No, no, you know I love this
story you have about Pamela Anderson because she got great reviews.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
What's the matter this is? This is actually a brilliant
segue I'm just so impressed there.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
That's that I went to Pamela Anderson after the strippers.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, yeah, this is not it isn't abrupt. This is
a very good segue. Continue on about pam I know,
I love.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
What you've written about her. I love what you've written
about her only because I would love to see her
be really extremely successful in her career. What's the next movie?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So this is what's very interesting is she just made
this movie, The Last Showgirl, which I recommend everybody watch it.
She's extremely moving in it. She was nominated for the
sag Award and the Golden Globe, all deservedly so. And
now and that was just a little indie film, which
you'd never well, you never associated her with that kind
of indie.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Film, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And now she's actually going to star in a edgy
play at the Williamstown Theater Festival in the Berkshires. And
it is a Tennessee william It's an old it's not
a street car named Desire or the Glass Menagerie. It's
a lesser known play called Camino Reel, and she plays
a faded courtism. So it's not, you know, the worst
(05:35):
casting ever, but it's going to really test her abilities.
And I've loved this second stage of her career, especially
since you know, she had to deal with so much
tabloid stuff for much of it, which undermined her abilities
and her dreams. Ever since I saw her in Chicago
on Broadway playing Roxy, I was like, you really, you know,
you got a spark that kind of went unacknowledged for
(05:57):
a long time. And so it's just cool seeing her
have this very unexpected second act.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
And it's so smart of her. I mean, it's it's
brilliant the way they're handling her career. And but yeah,
to your point, though, you have to have the chops.
You have to have the chops to back this up,
and apparently she does. We can talk about Mikey Madison
again and Anora, that's it because she turned down a
role in Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, so I believe, unlike you, I believe that Mikey
Madison also has the chops. I thought she was brilliant
in that movie, and she won the Oscar I was.
I was pretty glad she beat Demmy Moore. I think
she totally deserved to, and she has just it's just
been revealed that she was asked a star in the
new standalone Star Wars movie called Star Wars Starfighter. What
(06:46):
a title, and she turned it down. It could probably
would have paid her, would have paid her a lot
more than Anora did. But I was thinking, I think
this is a brilliant choice because you think of Bree Larson,
who in the Oscar for that very very good movie
Room a few years ago. She wins Best Actress at
a young age. Then she goes and does the Marvel movies.
(07:06):
Remember Captain Marvel, And it's like she she goes and
does you know, the biggest series in the world, and
disappears off the face of the planet at the same
time Gwyneth Paltrow. Ever since Gwyneth Paltrow entered the Marvel movies,
she's done almost nothing else except goop around. That's all
she does.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
She doesn't need to. She's making a fortune off those
Iron Man movies.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
And whatever she sells on that dumb wellness website.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, like the Candles.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And then Daisy Ridley, who was in you know that
was sort of her big break in Star Wars The
Force Awakens. What has she done? I really think these
franchises are giant career ruiners and good on Mikey Madison's
team for recognizing to just slam the door on that.
But Ryan Gosling's going to be in it, let him
do it.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, it did pretty well for Harrison Ford, it did.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
But that's you know, few and far between, and he's
had to play Indiana Jones until he was eighty two.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Have you watched him in the series is Shrinking?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I haven't, I hear. It's absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Oh and he's so funny. It's a different kind of
role for him. I highly recommend it. Let's talk about
the Broadway musical Floyd Collins.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
So this premise will not be appealing to everybody. This
is a show about a real story about a cave
explorer one hundred years ago who gets trapped in the cave.
So much of the show we watch this man trapped
in a cave as they try to rescue him. It's
an OK production that stars Jeremy Jordan of Television and
the show Newsy's. The score is absolutely beautiful. It's just
(08:36):
a pleasure to listen to over at Lincoln Center. The script, Ugh,
it's a bottom of the barreler or bottom of the cave,
such as it is. I gave it two and a
half stars because I think it's worth it for a
concert alone.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Really, you just go to listen to the score, close
your eyes.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, and you'll probably get some discount of tickets too.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Thanks a lot, Johnny Oleigzinski, New York Post entertainment critic
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