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Odie Henderson @ NYFF

@odienator.bsky.social
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Author of BLACK CAESARS AND FOXY CLEOPATRAS: A HISTORY OF BLAXPLOITATION CINEMA. Still the Boston Globe's chief film critic for now :) Former RogerEbert.com critic. Also former IT Diva (reformed). Black, bi, badass. View are my own! NSFC and GALECA member.

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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 15h
My review is mentioned here! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Tom Cruise ‘Digger’ Reviews Are Brutally Split: From “Insufferable” to “Terrific”
Here's a roundup of the top critic reviews for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's bold new movie.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 15h
"Be a dumb motherfucker who gives us your money! Go see DIGGER! Its star is rooting for our demise!" -Warner Bros. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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‘Digger’ Confronts Negative Buzz: New Ad Tells Moviegoers to ‘Decide for Yourself’ After Tom Cruise Movie Called ‘Unpleasant’ and ‘Baffling’
Warner Bros. put out a new ad for 'Digger' that touts negative reviews of the Tom Cruise movie, asking moviegoers to 'decide for yourself.'
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 17h
Based solely on the movie adaptations I've seen, I am convinced that you have to be a fool to buy a plot in a Colleen Hoover novel, and that she's more into car accidents than the characters in Cronenberg's CRASH. The last adaptation is on my 2026 ten worst list. Will VERITY join it? Stay tuned.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 19h
If this is as bad as DIGGER. I'm resigning.
Screen for VERITY
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 22h
I was number one for a hot minute. Now I'm really in trouble.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looks like I'm in trouble already.
My Digger review is currently number four on the most-read articles on the Boston Globe site list.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The "it's bad on purpose" folks are coming out of the woodwork already. I removed their quote of my DIGGER post and blocked this person.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My Globe review of DIGGER is up. I suppose I should have expected that the director of the worst best picture Oscar winner, and the man with an ego so big that you can see it from space, would make a movie so insufferably bad that I needed a stiff drink after it. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/29/a...
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‘Digger’ is the worst movie of Tom Cruise’s career - The Boston Globe
As Denzel said in ‘Malcolm X,’ you’ve been ‘hoodwinked and bamboozled’ by this film’s mendacious marketing.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have to ask my fellow Stevie-loving Henderson, @ephender.bsky.social, which of the "new" SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE songs is his favorite!
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was shocked when I got the press release for this yesterday. But it's true. New Stevie tracks...that are really 50 years old!
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am sick and fucking tired of PR people telling me what I can and can't say in a review. I am done listening to them.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I earned this tonight.
A gay bar strength Old Fashioned
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tom Cruise just made his LEONARD PART 6.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Look, Ma! I'm on the narrative jury at this year's New Hampshire Film Festival! nhfilmfestival.com/2026-juries/
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2026 Juries | New Hampshire Film Festival
NH Film Festival 2026 Juries. Four Days of Films, Celebrities, Filmmakers and More.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's Wilford Brimley's birthday! I pay tribute to my favorite role of his, the Cajun Uncle Douvee in HARD TARGET. If you checked your dia-bee-tus every day and you ate your Quaker Oats, you too could make moonshine and outrun fireballs while shooting arrows at bad guys! IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO!
Wilford Brimley on horseback with a gigantic explosion going off behind him.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That Learn With AI Maya Angelou simulation makes me so pissed off that I hope everyone involved--and everyone who is pro-AI--falls ass first down a manhole. You can go find it for yourself if you wanna see it. I hope her estate sues the fuck out of them.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At the GODZILLA MINUS ZERO press screening, we each received a list of plot points/twists that we were NOT supposed to discuss in our reviews. Indiewire put the first "do not discuss" plot point in its headline. I suppose there's a different set of rules for us commoners than for IndieWire, hm?
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Your fave's fave @actually.roiskinda.cool · 27/09/2026
Honestly, this a basic reality for being Black or Brown in the US.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"If you don't know the song MY NECK, MY BACK by Khia, you can't satisfy a woman and you should never get laid again. Do a quick Google search and maybe open your mind to Colonel Angus." (BAD ODIE!)
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm writing a song called "Choosin' Jersey" and I'm going to write a whiny ass article in the Boston Globe if you don't like it or have never heard of it. I'll say "YO' MAMA!" and demand that your ignorance means you're a dumb poopy head. Buy my record or I'll say you're a bad person in the paper!
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Relax! Don't mew it!
A photo a few years back at the cat cafe. Has a cat called FRANKIE DIDN'T GO TO HOLLYWOOD on it. He was adopted!
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Godzillla Minus Zero NYFF Q&A this morning. The movie is very good. Seeing it on a rainy Saturday morning in NYC brought me back to my childhood weekend TV viewing.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Godzilla Minus Zero is rated R because the main character says "I have had it with these motherfuckin' kaiju on this motherfuckin' plane!"
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I spent 35 years in tech. Most of the guys I worked with or had to deal with were racists, homophobes (yes, even in San Francisco), misogynistic or just outright privilged assholes. If you think I feel sorry for the dudes in this article, you need your head examined. They deserve to be shunned.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
About to find out why Godzilla is rated R-uh.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Professor Fate can identify, @moviessilently.bsky.social.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@812filmreviews.com, @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social and I spent time with Chili Crisp the adorable blind cat during an hour at the cat cafe. She was in da TEE VEE!
Chili Crisp, the white, brown and gray fur cat. She was FEISTY. Her cat bed was shaped like a tv set.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Because everything in Boston opens late, my ***1/2 review of YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER won't run for 2 weeks. But here's what I said about it from TIFF: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/14/a...
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At this year’s TIFF, the horses are wild and the biopics ‘Rocky’ - The Boston Globe
Another star-studded festival spectacular unfolds in Toronto. Will it yield another "Obsession"?
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For the afternoon crowd.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today the arthritis in the joints of my big toes (no, it's not the gout dammit!) met the newfound arthritis in my right knee. This is what I get for laughing whenever Fred Sanford complained about his "arthur-itis." I'm just going to start playing this whenever I'm walking. youtu.be/1-wZUgvSlOo
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Quincy Jones -- Sanford and Son Theme (The Streetbeater)
YouTube video by WBZO_RJsRadio
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wait, the new James Gray movie is a sequel of sorts to ARMAGEDDON TIME? Hell to the NO. Guess I'll skip it tomorrow. I'm not hobbling down to Walter Reade for that. www.bostonglobe.com/2022/11/02/a...
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‘Armageddon Time’ looks through the lens of whiteness - The Boston Globe
James Gray’s semi-autobiographical tale about two young friends — one white, one Black — treats its lead Black character as a sacrificial lamb.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In honor of the meh Canadian movie THE STUNT DRIVER opening this week, I wrote about movies with muscle cars, stunt drivers and car chases. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/a...
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10 movies about stunt drivers, car crashes, and existential road trips - The Boston Globe
In honor of ‘The Stunt Driver,’ our film critic looks at muscle car movies and their stunts.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My cousins and I mocked the hell out of this. We'd do the Courtney Cox dance and say "this is the Whitest shit I ever saw." They are literally doing the Eddie Murphy "White people at the club" dance 3 years before Ed-DEE Raw! And this from me, a Bruce (and Brian DePalma) fan. youtu.be/129kuDCQtHs
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Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In the Dark (Official Video)
YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy birthday to my fellow Jersey Boy, BRUUUUUCE! My article from 2023. www.bostonglobe.com/2023/08/17/a...
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bisexuality does not require you to have dated X number of people Y times to count. You attracted to more than one gender? Cool. You count. Anyone saying otherwise is a jerk.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I reviewed HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY! from TIFF last week. It's not without its problems, but is still a fun, breezy way to kill 2 hours. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/22/a...
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‘Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!’ blames it on the boogie - The Boston Globe
Rinko Kikuchi stars in this raunchy cross between "Shall We Dance" and "Truly, Madly, Deeply."
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I would NOT bet on how this one's gonna turn out. I didn't think twice: Part of Your World got my vote. And it's not that Friend Like Me is a bad song--it's not, and Williams' performance of it is excellent--but this one was easy for me. No matter, we're getting a Howard Ashman song.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What da Hell?!!
MPAA rating graphic showing GODZILLA MINUS ZERO is rated R! Guess those Mothra chicks are gonna show us some titties!
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's the appropriate day to post this: youtu.be/OqphWuUbiX8
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Fred Sings With Smiley Rogers | Sanford and Son
YouTube video by Sanford and Son
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Ewoks Are The Blue Collar Heroes of the Franchise.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The new footage in THE DEVILS is fucking ridiculous. And the movie is still as bad as I remembered. Maybe I've seen too many nasty nun movies to give a shit about this hysterical bore. Great that it's finally restored. Amen to that. But that doesn't mean it's good.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There's no way in Hell that Mulan song should have gotten this far. As easy choice for me.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Very funny, Looney Tunes!
A screenshot from a Porky and Daffy cartoon where they're "space cops." The futuristic computer says "To locate known criminals push designated button." The criminal names on the buttons are folks associated with the cartoons: CM (Chuck) Jones, Tedd Pierce, Mel Blanc and Eddie Selzer.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I guess I'll go back to working in tech now.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Disney+ has altered its user agreement to clarify that Mickey Mouse will be allowed to squeeze your tits at least once while watching any subscription tier. (This is why I don't have Disney+. Only premium subscribers to Odie++ get to squeeze my tits.)
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A little Ella to brighten up your day, as only Madame Fitzgerald can. youtu.be/lx-HFKrKi5Y
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You'll Have to Swing It
YouTube video by Ella Fitzgerald - Topic
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In high school Spanish class, they had us learn the Spanish one. I still remember after all these years.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I voted for Part of Your World because I'm sick of hearing Jiminy's song every time I see the Disney logo.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Related to the EW&F song, SEPTEMBER, my review of ROBOT DREAMS, the best thing I've written for The Boston Globe out of almost 700 pieces, and one of my favorite articles in the 20 years I've been stupid enough to write about film. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/11/a...
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy Earth Wind & Fire Day to all who celebrate! youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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