December 9, 2025 • 8 mins
Johnny Oleksinski joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the nominations for the Golden Globes and his issues with the trends they’ve been showing lately.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Junie Alexiski from The New York Post. The entertainment critic
is with us every Tuesday at this time, and he's
sitting here in the studio. Now. You know, I used
to love the Golden Globes and I used to love
their nominations because they were so different than anybody else's.
They actually were more mainstream than everybody else's because they
were just like guys that happened to be from Poland
(00:21):
that owned a car wash, you know, and there were
actually people that owned car washes that would go and
be part of the voters, and so they were like us.
Now they've gotten just like all the other critics and
giving it to movies that nobody's seen.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Actually, I figured that back in the access Hollywood days,
you would have gotten the Golden Globes that their drunken,
wacky prime. Oh yes we did.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
But then they had the scandal.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well, they had a multitude of scandals. There was the
diversity one where they were criticizing the makeup of the members,
So that's kind of what did them in first. But
then also they've been criticized for years because of their
questionable choices and why they made them. So people would
throw lavish dinners for the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press,
and they'd get to meet Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise
(01:08):
and that would sway him. That's that's allegedly how Pia
Zadora got in years ago for giving some atrocious performance.
I think they said that her husband bought it off
or something to get her nomination. But as you said,
that used to be lots of fun. It was kind
of like the the anidote to these stuffy, right boring
(01:28):
you know, everyone stood up straight, there's no booze at
your table Oscars. And now I don't know how it's
remarkable to me that the stuffy, boring ones are the
Golden Globes. So the nominations come out and in Best
Comedy and Musical and Best Drama combined, that's twelve movies.
Five of them are foreign language films. Oh wow, so
(01:49):
you got You got Iran, Brazil, I think, France, Norway
and in the South Korea.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I didn't know any of the pictures that were nominate.
I'm looking through them. I knew very in few with them,
a couple here and there, but I didn't know any
In Wicked Man, you'd think that that was going to
get a nomination somewhere for a movie.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, it's like you said, how there used to be
car was showners and stuff. Now it is mostly reputable critics.
So you're just sort of getting the same kind of
things that the New York Film Critics Circle would do.
And it's just oor season is dull enough. I thought
the other day I'd made the mistake of going on
to Google and checking into how many days till the Oscars?
(02:32):
Ninety six ninety six days. It's absolutely unbelievable how long
we stretched this thing out. But now we don't even
get the benefit. There's here's some things that I thought
could have made it in in the old days. The
Naked Gun with Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson could have
made it in. It's a funny movie. It's a totally
different set of skills. Something like f one could have
(02:55):
gotten in. Weapons should have gotten in anyway, So the
movie that people are actually watching, I recognize some of
these tiny things that you haven't heard of are very good,
but I'm not. I'm just not holding my breath that
people watch.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Them, right, And so the only attraction to watch the
Golden Globes, which I'm going to watch for this reason?
Is Nicki Glazer?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh she's great. She and she's I think one of
our last really smart roast comics that you know, she
can be filthy when she wants to be, but really
she's just a top wit.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, absolutely, and she man does she know her craft.
She practices like eighty ninety times.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
But don't you feel for her this year? I remember
she gave an interview with the New York Times when
and they they were she's going through all her jokes
and Anora came up with her riders and she said,
we're just gonna anore it. And that was That was
okay because you had, you know, a sprinkle of small
movies this time. I don't know how she makes fun
of you know, a movie about Iranian political prisoners who
(03:57):
take revenge against their prison I mean it's a great movie,
but I just a lot of people won't have heard
of it.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah. Absolutely, she'll make fun of the crowd. She's just
gonna do the actors and actresses that are there.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well on in the globes. There's still a shamelessness to
these people. So there's the the box off miss box
office achievement category, which is essentially the the uh you
know award for money, and Avatar is nominated. And notice
Avatar hasn't come out yet. Avatar Naitar hasn't achieved anything.
(04:30):
Avatar has achieved zero dollars. It will achieve a lot more.
So they're I guess they're hedging their bets, but they
want to make sure the Avatar people are there. Here's
a movie you've seen, and we will give it an award.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, now, Wicked, we should say I mentioned that it was.
It was nominated for some things.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, actress supporting actress for Cynthia Rivo and Ariana Grande,
the two atrocious new songs. I like that movie, but
Steven Schwartz wrote these two horrible songs. I mean, take
you know, stab my ears out these songs, and both
of them got nominated, which shows you, you know, we're not
getting let the river run anymore. These are no my
(05:07):
heart will go on. They're just the biggest pieces of
crafty songs. So I got five in total. You might
see Wicked in Best Picture at the Oscars because the guilds,
the producers and actors and writers who vote for those
are a lot more practical and their tastes are not.
You know, they're not all wearing black turtlenecks and swilling
brandy while they judge movies like we do.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Plus, they probably want them to open up the Oscars
again because it was highly successful last year. People loved
it last year.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, it was great. I just if I had one
wish for this Christmas in this New Year's, it would
be that we wouldn't nominate ten friggin' movies. Let's nominate five.
We used to nominate five, because now what you're seeing
is five pretty good contenders and then five things I
have to talk about.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Well, then it doesn't have to be ten, right, it
could be up to ten.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now it's always ten? Is it really the chase that
always ten?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well? I thought there was a standard to it that
they were. They used to cut it off at seven
or eight or nine. It could be as many as ten.
But that was that used to be it.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Right, Yeah, And so now it's like a high school
like in the Sticks, trying to come up with a
football team but not having enough guys. It's like, I,
can you put on a helmet? We need to in.
We need to in.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
And the whole reason for that was that they needed
some movies in there that people actually saw.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, and that, well that's the thing thereon lies the
rub So that gets in Avatar, that gets in Black Panther,
those kind of movies. But now we're using it to
get in obscure forms. Yeah. But the Oscars do it too.
The Oscars last year I think had three foreign languag
which is fine. It's just it's they're more and more
(06:49):
expanding into that.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, so what give me, give me, let's do it
with Oscar predictions. At this point, you've seen a lot
of movies, and have you seen everything yet?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Just about there's a I haven't seen. There's a Brazilian
movie I have to see called The Secret Agent, which
got a bunch of golden that'll be at the Hostar.
The big movie is gonna be one battle after another.
The Paul Thomas Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio of kind of Vigilante
Justice Satire. It's good. It's a good movie. I don't
think it's as earth shattering as some of my colleagues
(07:21):
on the Aisle do. I did like it, but right
now it's the Juggernaut is one. Every lead up award
so far, there's so many, so.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
That's that's interesting. So for for best movie, you think
that's gonna win? Oh yeah, what should win?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
What should win? Gosh abstained? Can we abstain this year?
I like the movie. I like the movie. You know what,
I'd liked it. I liked Marty Supreme with Timothy Shallomey.
I find it much more exciting, better acted, more fun.
That's coming out at Christmas. You'll have a good time,
was it.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Joe Numeier high on that movie as well, Marty Supreme. Yes,
this might be the first one of the first times
that you absolutely agreed on a movie.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I know. I remember when he liked a Jurassic World
dominion or whatever. I almost threw my headset on the
ground of a strump. No, but I I respect any
colleagues opinion. We need to get you, the both of
you guys together in one room. We got to do
that one day. Well, just bring a mop for the blood.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Johnny Alexinski, New York Post entertainment critic with us every
Tuesday at nine thirty five. Thanks a lot, Johnny. When
we come back, my final thoughts are recap of today's
show and of course the talk back of the morning
Junie Alexiski from The New York Post. The entertainment critic
is with us every Tuesday at this time, and he's
sitting here in the studio. Now. You know, I used
to love the Golden Globes and I used to love
their nominations because they were so different than anybody else's.
They actually were more mainstream than everybody else's because they
were just like guys that happened to be from Poland
(00:21):
that owned a car wash, you know, and there were
actually people that owned car washes that would go and
be part of the voters, and so they were like us.
Now they've gotten just like all the other critics and
giving it to movies that nobody's seen.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Actually, I figured that back in the access Hollywood days,
you would have gotten the Golden Globes that their drunken,
wacky prime. Oh yes we did.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
But then they had the scandal.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well, they had a multitude of scandals. There was the
diversity one where they were criticizing the makeup of the members,
So that's kind of what did them in first. But
then also they've been criticized for years because of their
questionable choices and why they made them. So people would
throw lavish dinners for the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press,
and they'd get to meet Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise
(01:08):
and that would sway him. That's that's allegedly how Pia
Zadora got in years ago for giving some atrocious performance.
I think they said that her husband bought it off
or something to get her nomination. But as you said,
that used to be lots of fun. It was kind
of like the the anidote to these stuffy, right boring
(01:28):
you know, everyone stood up straight, there's no booze at
your table Oscars. And now I don't know how it's
remarkable to me that the stuffy, boring ones are the
Golden Globes. So the nominations come out and in Best
Comedy and Musical and Best Drama combined, that's twelve movies.
Five of them are foreign language films. Oh wow, so
(01:49):
you got You got Iran, Brazil, I think, France, Norway
and in the South Korea.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
I didn't know any of the pictures that were nominate.
I'm looking through them. I knew very in few with them,
a couple here and there, but I didn't know any
In Wicked Man, you'd think that that was going to
get a nomination somewhere for a movie.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, it's like you said, how there used to be
car was showners and stuff. Now it is mostly reputable critics.
So you're just sort of getting the same kind of
things that the New York Film Critics Circle would do.
And it's just oor season is dull enough. I thought
the other day I'd made the mistake of going on
to Google and checking into how many days till the Oscars?
(02:32):
Ninety six ninety six days. It's absolutely unbelievable how long
we stretched this thing out. But now we don't even
get the benefit. There's here's some things that I thought
could have made it in in the old days. The
Naked Gun with Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson could have
made it in. It's a funny movie. It's a totally
different set of skills. Something like f one could have
(02:55):
gotten in. Weapons should have gotten in anyway, So the
movie that people are actually watching, I recognize some of
these tiny things that you haven't heard of are very good,
but I'm not. I'm just not holding my breath that
people watch.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Them, right, And so the only attraction to watch the
Golden Globes, which I'm going to watch for this reason?
Is Nicki Glazer?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh she's great. She and she's I think one of
our last really smart roast comics that you know, she
can be filthy when she wants to be, but really
she's just a top wit.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Yeah, absolutely, and she man does she know her craft.
She practices like eighty ninety times.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
But don't you feel for her this year? I remember
she gave an interview with the New York Times when
and they they were she's going through all her jokes
and Anora came up with her riders and she said,
we're just gonna anore it. And that was That was
okay because you had, you know, a sprinkle of small
movies this time. I don't know how she makes fun
of you know, a movie about Iranian political prisoners who
(03:57):
take revenge against their prison I mean it's a great movie,
but I just a lot of people won't have heard
of it.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Yeah. Absolutely, she'll make fun of the crowd. She's just
gonna do the actors and actresses that are there.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well on in the globes. There's still a shamelessness to
these people. So there's the the box off miss box
office achievement category, which is essentially the the uh you
know award for money, and Avatar is nominated. And notice
Avatar hasn't come out yet. Avatar Naitar hasn't achieved anything.
(04:30):
Avatar has achieved zero dollars. It will achieve a lot more.
So they're I guess they're hedging their bets, but they
want to make sure the Avatar people are there. Here's
a movie you've seen, and we will give it an award.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, now, Wicked, we should say I mentioned that it was.
It was nominated for some things.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, actress supporting actress for Cynthia Rivo and Ariana Grande,
the two atrocious new songs. I like that movie, but
Steven Schwartz wrote these two horrible songs. I mean, take
you know, stab my ears out these songs, and both
of them got nominated, which shows you, you know, we're not
getting let the river run anymore. These are no my
(05:07):
heart will go on. They're just the biggest pieces of
crafty songs. So I got five in total. You might
see Wicked in Best Picture at the Oscars because the guilds,
the producers and actors and writers who vote for those
are a lot more practical and their tastes are not.
You know, they're not all wearing black turtlenecks and swilling
brandy while they judge movies like we do.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Plus, they probably want them to open up the Oscars
again because it was highly successful last year. People loved
it last year.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, it was great. I just if I had one
wish for this Christmas in this New Year's, it would
be that we wouldn't nominate ten friggin' movies. Let's nominate five.
We used to nominate five, because now what you're seeing
is five pretty good contenders and then five things I
have to talk about.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Well, then it doesn't have to be ten, right, it
could be up to ten.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Now it's always ten? Is it really the chase that
always ten?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Well? I thought there was a standard to it that
they were. They used to cut it off at seven
or eight or nine. It could be as many as ten.
But that was that used to be it.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Right, Yeah, And so now it's like a high school
like in the Sticks, trying to come up with a
football team but not having enough guys. It's like, I,
can you put on a helmet? We need to in.
We need to in.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
And the whole reason for that was that they needed
some movies in there that people actually saw.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yeah, and that, well that's the thing thereon lies the
rub So that gets in Avatar, that gets in Black Panther,
those kind of movies. But now we're using it to
get in obscure forms. Yeah. But the Oscars do it too.
The Oscars last year I think had three foreign languag
which is fine. It's just it's they're more and more
(06:49):
expanding into that.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, so what give me, give me, let's do it
with Oscar predictions. At this point, you've seen a lot
of movies, and have you seen everything yet?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Just about there's a I haven't seen. There's a Brazilian
movie I have to see called The Secret Agent, which
got a bunch of golden that'll be at the Hostar.
The big movie is gonna be one battle after another.
The Paul Thomas Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio of kind of Vigilante
Justice Satire. It's good. It's a good movie. I don't
think it's as earth shattering as some of my colleagues
(07:21):
on the Aisle do. I did like it, but right
now it's the Juggernaut is one. Every lead up award
so far, there's so many, so.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
That's that's interesting. So for for best movie, you think
that's gonna win? Oh yeah, what should win?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
What should win? Gosh abstained? Can we abstain this year?
I like the movie. I like the movie. You know what,
I'd liked it. I liked Marty Supreme with Timothy Shallomey.
I find it much more exciting, better acted, more fun.
That's coming out at Christmas. You'll have a good time,
was it.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Joe Numeier high on that movie as well, Marty Supreme. Yes,
this might be the first one of the first times
that you absolutely agreed on a movie.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I know. I remember when he liked a Jurassic World
dominion or whatever. I almost threw my headset on the
ground of a strump. No, but I I respect any
colleagues opinion. We need to get you, the both of
you guys together in one room. We got to do
that one day. Well, just bring a mop for the blood.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Johnny Alexinski, New York Post entertainment critic with us every
Tuesday at nine thirty five. Thanks a lot, Johnny. When
we come back, my final thoughts are recap of today's
show and of course the talk back of the morning
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