Johnny Oleksinski has been The New York Post’s entertainment critic, its leading voice on movies and theater, since 2018. He began at The Post as an entertainment reporter in 2015. Before moving to New York, he was a theater writer/editor at the Chicago Tribune and was chief theater critic of Newcity Chicago. He is a voting member of the New York Drama Critics Circle. Mr. Oleksinski majored in theater at Illinois State University. He lives in the East Village, and can be heard every on 710~WOR Radio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from dou Woar.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here's Larry Minty with more of the wor Saturday Morning
Show Welcome Back. Reviews are now coming out on new
Bruce Springsteen movie. New York Post entertainment critic Johnny Oleazinski
has seen it, So what did he think? Here's the answer.
I'm almost afraid to ask you. I want the Bruce
(00:23):
Springsteen movie to be good so much I'm afraid to
ask you what you thought of it?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
It is good? Oh good, it is good. I saw.
I was at the New York Film Festival premiere the
other night. Bruce was there. Jeremy Allen White, who plays
and was there. Bruce did an impromptu performance at the end,
which was pretty cool. I love Bruce.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
What did he say?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
He's saying promised land.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So it was very very cool. And in my review
I get so. I gave it three stars, and there
was a lot of comparing it to a complete unknown,
the Bob Dylan movie, which I also I loved that
ever slow slightly more. This was three stars. That was
three and a half. Bruce, I think is harder because
the image of Bruce is so much in our brains,
(01:04):
especially young Bruce because he was plastered all over his albums,
whereas Timothy Shallo may had some creative leeway with Bob Dylan.
I think the other thing. And plenty of listeners might
disagree with this. I think Bruce in his twenties and
thirties had the most extraordinary voice. And some people don't
think Bruce is a great singer. I think he is
a fantastic singer. Jeremy Allen White, it gives it from
(01:25):
the Bear, gives a great acting performance, really moving, because
this is about Bruce's struggles with depression and his memories
of his dad while writing Nebraska. The movie is all
about him almost breaking down while writing Nebraska. He Jeremial
the Bear not a singer. Oh no, no, no, no no.
And he did his own singing like like tim Because now,
(01:46):
if you want to win the Oscar, if you want
to get there, you have to do your own singing.
You have to do all those interviews with us, say
oh how long did you practice? And you know it's
not atrocious. But when Bruce does a growl, it's exciting.
When jerem on Wan does a growl, go, you know,
do you want me to get you a cough drop.
It just sounds like his vocal cores are having a
(02:08):
rough time. But I do like he is good. The
movie is good, especially for Springsteen fans like me. You'll
like it.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Do they limit the singing? How could they?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Isn't It isn't like a Bohemian Rhapsody sort of movie
where it's all these concerts. It's really more about his
emotional experiences. And it's by the way, it's not like
it Bruce was born and all the way to present day.
It's just about nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
We'll have to bring up Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban
next time, unless you have a quick comment.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I read that Nicole Kidman partly split apart because she's
been doing so many sex scenes recently. No, really, she's
been doing sex things forever. She's been stripping since the
beginning of her career.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
AI certainly is causing a ruckus out in Hollywood right now,
because Tillie Norwood is not non existent. She is completely AI.
But you she could full anybody. I mean, when you
look at her real and she has a real she
(03:05):
looks like a human being. And I'm sure that Hollywood
has to be freaked out about this.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, they are and they can't stop talking about it.
It brings back memories of the strike and when they
you know, the sag after strike, when they were freaking
out over being replaced by AI. That was a big
reason for that strike. And now this woman that's created
Tilly Norwood, what a name? The woman who created Tilly
is saying, Oh, everyone's racing to sign Tilly, and I
(03:32):
don't fully believe that. There's a lot of open questions
about who this person is. She says she was an
actress that wanted to create an actress, or it's her
art project or whatever. But yeah, it spooked a lot
of people. I still until we really see these things
in action, like let's do a whole awful Lord of
the Rings movie starring Tilly Norwood and her AI friends,
(03:55):
and you know, they start kind of you know that
uncanny Valley thing where you can just slightly tell they're
not real, or we won't know, or we'll say, wow,
that's the best the actress I've ever seen. Then we'll
know if what the real threat of this is. But
for now, I look at, uh do you ever read?
Sometimes cheap websites will do articles that are clearly written
(04:17):
in AI and they're riddled with factual errors and the
sentences are a little off. I don't think the technology
is there yet.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, it looks pretty good. I mean, it's a short
real it looks pretty good, and if something goes wrong,
you can always fix it. I mean, you know, doing
retakes is free. But I can't imagine the ramifications of that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Look.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
She's going to get apart, there's no question in my mind,
because everybody's going to see it. Everybody's going to go
watch it, and so I just think that Hollywood would
love this. The people that run Hollywood, not the people
that have the jobs, the people that run Hollywood. To
be able to have actors and actresses they can control,
that's a dream come true.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Hollywood loves not spending money, that's one of their favorite
things to do, or money extremely unwisely. Where you see
a three hundred million dollar movie and it looks like,
you know, a buck fifty, you're probably right. And I
don't know how SAGAFTRA could convince what they could put
in a contract to say you can't do this right now,
it's in their contract. I believe you can't replicate Brad
(05:18):
Pitt without asking for his consent and compensating him fairly.
And of course, obviously that is what they should do,
but they've sort of suggested bargain it. If you use
an AI actor, then you have to pay, you know,
have this many live actors. I think it's a whole
giant mess.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Speaking of giant messes, how did you like Keanu Reeves
in Waiting for Gordo?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
A very good segue, incredible taking the words right out
of my mouth? Oh oh, so he and look I
like I like the john Wick movies. I like the
Bill and Ted movies. I like half have one of
one quarter of the Matrix movies. So I like Keanu Reeves.
Like what he can do on a uh. Beckett is
(06:02):
not john Wick. John Wick barely talks and that and
that is very well suited to Keanu Reeves. Not speaking, kicking,
karate chopping, glaring at the camera. That's great, but that's
a skill to make that interesting as a skill. Uh
in Goodough is just so far out of his league. Weirdly,
(06:24):
you know who is better in Waiting for Goodough is
Alex Winter who was his opposite and Bill and Ted.
I this is uh and final jeopardy. I don't know
I really they're kind of they're like Beavis and Butt heead.
I often forget which was which. But Alex Winter, who's
become a documentary filmmaker in recent years, weirdly, he is
(06:47):
pretty good. He is good, and maybe he is not
burdened by our expectations since we don't see him as well.
It's kind of, oh, look at this discovery almost. But
with with Keanu Reeves, I just thought he it's it's
like watching someone you know that phrase when they say, oh,
I'd paid watch you read the phone book. The audience
paid to watch him read the phone book, and it
(07:09):
just was someone reading the phone book. I'm afraid six
hundred and seventy dollars top ticket by.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh man, that's ridiculous. Yeah, so I'm not going to
say it. I don't care, no wonderful nor should you look.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
By the way, just so you know, Alex Winter was Bill.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh, just so we all know now, because you know
everybody was going to be thinking about this all day. Yeah,
I was going to eat away with me all day.
Thank god, thank god you told me that. New York
Post entertainment critic Johnny Oleczinski.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
This has been a podcast from w o r
This is a podcast from dou Woar.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Here's Larry Minty with more of the wor Saturday Morning
Show Welcome Back. Reviews are now coming out on new
Bruce Springsteen movie. New York Post entertainment critic Johnny Oleazinski
has seen it, So what did he think? Here's the answer.
I'm almost afraid to ask you. I want the Bruce
(00:23):
Springsteen movie to be good so much I'm afraid to
ask you what you thought of it?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
It is good? Oh good, it is good. I saw.
I was at the New York Film Festival premiere the
other night. Bruce was there. Jeremy Allen White, who plays
and was there. Bruce did an impromptu performance at the end,
which was pretty cool. I love Bruce.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
What did he say?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
He's saying promised land.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
So it was very very cool. And in my review
I get so. I gave it three stars, and there
was a lot of comparing it to a complete unknown,
the Bob Dylan movie, which I also I loved that
ever slow slightly more. This was three stars. That was
three and a half. Bruce, I think is harder because
the image of Bruce is so much in our brains,
(01:04):
especially young Bruce because he was plastered all over his albums,
whereas Timothy Shallo may had some creative leeway with Bob Dylan.
I think the other thing. And plenty of listeners might
disagree with this. I think Bruce in his twenties and
thirties had the most extraordinary voice. And some people don't
think Bruce is a great singer. I think he is
a fantastic singer. Jeremy Allen White, it gives it from
(01:25):
the Bear, gives a great acting performance, really moving, because
this is about Bruce's struggles with depression and his memories
of his dad while writing Nebraska. The movie is all
about him almost breaking down while writing Nebraska. He Jeremial
the Bear not a singer. Oh no, no, no, no no.
And he did his own singing like like tim Because now,
(01:46):
if you want to win the Oscar, if you want
to get there, you have to do your own singing.
You have to do all those interviews with us, say
oh how long did you practice? And you know it's
not atrocious. But when Bruce does a growl, it's exciting.
When jerem on Wan does a growl, go, you know,
do you want me to get you a cough drop.
It just sounds like his vocal cores are having a
(02:08):
rough time. But I do like he is good. The
movie is good, especially for Springsteen fans like me. You'll
like it.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Do they limit the singing? How could they?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Isn't It isn't like a Bohemian Rhapsody sort of movie
where it's all these concerts. It's really more about his
emotional experiences. And it's by the way, it's not like
it Bruce was born and all the way to present day.
It's just about nineteen eighty two.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
We'll have to bring up Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban
next time, unless you have a quick comment.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
I read that Nicole Kidman partly split apart because she's
been doing so many sex scenes recently. No, really, she's
been doing sex things forever. She's been stripping since the
beginning of her career.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
AI certainly is causing a ruckus out in Hollywood right now,
because Tillie Norwood is not non existent. She is completely AI.
But you she could full anybody. I mean, when you
look at her real and she has a real she
(03:05):
looks like a human being. And I'm sure that Hollywood
has to be freaked out about this.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, they are and they can't stop talking about it.
It brings back memories of the strike and when they
you know, the sag after strike, when they were freaking
out over being replaced by AI. That was a big
reason for that strike. And now this woman that's created
Tilly Norwood, what a name? The woman who created Tilly
is saying, Oh, everyone's racing to sign Tilly, and I
(03:32):
don't fully believe that. There's a lot of open questions
about who this person is. She says she was an
actress that wanted to create an actress, or it's her
art project or whatever. But yeah, it spooked a lot
of people. I still until we really see these things
in action, like let's do a whole awful Lord of
the Rings movie starring Tilly Norwood and her AI friends,
(03:55):
and you know, they start kind of you know that
uncanny Valley thing where you can just slightly tell they're
not real, or we won't know, or we'll say, wow,
that's the best the actress I've ever seen. Then we'll
know if what the real threat of this is. But
for now, I look at, uh do you ever read?
Sometimes cheap websites will do articles that are clearly written
(04:17):
in AI and they're riddled with factual errors and the
sentences are a little off. I don't think the technology
is there yet.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Well, it looks pretty good. I mean, it's a short
real it looks pretty good, and if something goes wrong,
you can always fix it. I mean, you know, doing
retakes is free. But I can't imagine the ramifications of that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Look.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
She's going to get apart, there's no question in my mind,
because everybody's going to see it. Everybody's going to go
watch it, and so I just think that Hollywood would
love this. The people that run Hollywood, not the people
that have the jobs, the people that run Hollywood. To
be able to have actors and actresses they can control,
that's a dream come true.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Hollywood loves not spending money, that's one of their favorite
things to do, or money extremely unwisely. Where you see
a three hundred million dollar movie and it looks like,
you know, a buck fifty, you're probably right. And I
don't know how SAGAFTRA could convince what they could put
in a contract to say you can't do this right now,
it's in their contract. I believe you can't replicate Brad
(05:18):
Pitt without asking for his consent and compensating him fairly.
And of course, obviously that is what they should do,
but they've sort of suggested bargain it. If you use
an AI actor, then you have to pay, you know,
have this many live actors. I think it's a whole
giant mess.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Speaking of giant messes, how did you like Keanu Reeves
in Waiting for Gordo?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
A very good segue, incredible taking the words right out
of my mouth? Oh oh, so he and look I
like I like the john Wick movies. I like the
Bill and Ted movies. I like half have one of
one quarter of the Matrix movies. So I like Keanu Reeves.
Like what he can do on a uh. Beckett is
(06:02):
not john Wick. John Wick barely talks and that and
that is very well suited to Keanu Reeves. Not speaking, kicking,
karate chopping, glaring at the camera. That's great, but that's
a skill to make that interesting as a skill. Uh
in Goodough is just so far out of his league. Weirdly,
(06:24):
you know who is better in Waiting for Goodough is
Alex Winter who was his opposite and Bill and Ted.
I this is uh and final jeopardy. I don't know
I really they're kind of they're like Beavis and Butt heead.
I often forget which was which. But Alex Winter, who's
become a documentary filmmaker in recent years, weirdly, he is
(06:47):
pretty good. He is good, and maybe he is not
burdened by our expectations since we don't see him as well.
It's kind of, oh, look at this discovery almost. But
with with Keanu Reeves, I just thought he it's it's
like watching someone you know that phrase when they say, oh,
I'd paid watch you read the phone book. The audience
paid to watch him read the phone book, and it
(07:09):
just was someone reading the phone book. I'm afraid six
hundred and seventy dollars top ticket by.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Oh man, that's ridiculous. Yeah, so I'm not going to
say it. I don't care, no wonderful nor should you look.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
By the way, just so you know, Alex Winter was Bill.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Oh, just so we all know now, because you know
everybody was going to be thinking about this all day. Yeah,
I was going to eat away with me all day.
Thank god, thank god you told me that. New York
Post entertainment critic Johnny Oleczinski.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
This has been a podcast from w o r
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