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Odie Henderson

@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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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 7h
Fellow white people, let's try to avoid nitpicking or otherwise correcting discourse about lynching by Black Americans on here It doesn't matter how many degrees you have, just don't do it
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 8h
I somehow dodged this one--and I wanted to see it! But as I say all the time: no movie, no review! Don't wanna give me a screening? I ain't beggin' ya.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 9h
I loved THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK. My 2nd NYFF movie with John Turturro and Tatiana Maslany. This is Turturro's Oscar movie.
Will Price and Tatiana Maslany. Will Price and Tatiana Maslany. John Turturro and Noah SeganJohn Turturro and Noah Segan
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 10h
I wasn't wrong. WB is officially dead, as is Paramount. I should have been angrier in this piece's intro.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 10h
That movie fills me with rage. I should write about it!!
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 10h
Oh God no! I often say this is his worst movie!
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 12h
Once again, my headline says it all. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/08/a...
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Is this the end of Warner Bros.? - The Boston Globe
20 great movies from the storied studio that's now part of Skydance.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 17h
I've said this about that clip before... YOU NASTY, KATHARINE HEPBURN!
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 17h
Old Alvin: Hey son, can I talk to you? What's going on? Adult son: Talk to my voice model, bitch. And I'm putting your senior citizen punk ass in a home.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 17h
I read to my little sister all the time. To get her to read more, I'd intentionally say something outlandish that wasn't in the book. She'd say "IT DOESN'T SAY THAT!" I'd say "yes it does! Read it yourself and SEE!" Decades later, she realized my reason for doing that and playfully cussed me out.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So, to paraphrase John Waters: If you go to somebody's house and they say they liked DIGGER, don't fuck them. (BAD ODIE!)
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Against my warnings, my friend took his girlfriend to see DIGGER. Rather, he dragged her to it. She hated it so much that she cussed him out in the lobby of the Bedbug 25. He hated it too, so he got in trouble for nothing. Meanwhile, the bedbugs, Nicole Kidman and I are laughing our asses off.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Biggie Smalls is da illest."
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I liked THE SOCIAL RECKONING with some reservations, the biggest being that this movie is too little, too late. But I liked Mikey Madison a lot, and Sorkin does know how to write techies very well. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/07/a...
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This ‘Social Reckoning’ arrives way too late - The Boston Globe
Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to "The Social Network" has great performances but little effect.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is well worth seeing. I wrote about THE FLYING ACE last year. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/04/a...
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My headline says it all: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/06/a...
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‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’ is great, great, great - The Boston Globe
Mahershala Ali is so good in this action-packed drama, he’ll make you happy that "Blade" reboot never got made.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Depahted opened on this day 20 years ago. I wrote about it for the paper located where it takes place! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/02/a...
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‘The Departed’ and its brutal Boston men turn 20 - The Boston Globe
For its 20th anniversary, Globe film critic Odie Henderson looks at how Martin Scorsese pulled it off.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Justice for ME for having to sit through DIGGER.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Drive me off of this merger."
The gate outside Warner Bros in Burbank, with the famous water tower in the background.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My feelings about this Paramount-WB merger:
A Looney Tunes cartoon screenshot of a cat with a big CENSORED tape across its mouth.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
RIP to the studio with the coolest 70s logo. youtu.be/yWoci4V3kFw
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Warner Bros. 1972 logo scope
YouTube video by BreadCrustCouncil
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What Matt doesn't know is that he has to eat the menus of 14 other MCU movies, including "Endgame," BEFORE he can do the Doomsday Dunkin' Challenge.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My mother HATED this one! "That little bastard needed his ass beat!" she said. (Mom had a list of characters who needed their "ass beat" including Veda Pierce.) As Alan mentions, I also watched TWILIGHT ZONE on WPIX as a kid/teen. It came on after THE HONEYMOONERS! I'd be scared to sleep after it.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
House
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tammy Faye is kicking the shit out of him while her makeup runs from the heat of the flames.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is it safe for me to say on here that I do not believe the polls about the Midterms? I don't trust white voters to be honest about their voting intentions with pollsters.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Walk with me.
The Social Reckoning screen
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Time to bring this back out for Professor's latest potential suitor. youtu.be/QYkJ0M1bUIU
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Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby (with lyrics)
YouTube video by Doc Henry
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In DYNARAMA!
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's Karen Allen's birthday! I very much enjoyed interviewing her earlier this year. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/21/a...
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Karen Allen on her history with the Berkshire Film Fest and how she got cast in ‘The Glass Menagerie’ - The Boston Globe
The Great Barrington resident will be honored by the film fest, which celebrates its 20th year.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bring KFC!
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Matt's not kidding! From my HALF OF ONE STAR review:
The first time I ever heard Nate Bargatze do stand up was during the end credits of “The Breadwinner,” the horrifically unfunny family comedy he stars in and co-wrote. His jokes alternate with outtake scenes, as if this were a paid advertisement for his stand up specials. And why not? When it’s not trying to be a poor man’s version of Michael Keaton’s far superior 1983 comedy, “Mr. Mom,” the entire film plays like a series of ads. Toyota, the Tennessee Titans, and the NBC show “Shark Tank” get the most promotional pushes.

Director Eric Appel also finds space for a shopping spree at Walmart, which Bargatze’s character, Nate, celebrates in dialogue that sounds like a commercial. Appel’s camera makes sure to center a giant bucket of KFC in the frame as well.

Product placement is not new, but “The Breadwinner” rubs your face in it. Unfortunately, the biggest product this movie is selling is the outdated notion that fathers are so incompetent that they don’t know where their own kids go to school, or how to make toast, or how to do the laundry.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Cory Booker up in here slipping into my DMs and Emails like a pimp trying to convince me to ho for him. I haven't heard from this MFer since he was in Newark. Don't be up in here now acting like we're buddies and you're hitting me up to borrow $5. Nukka please.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wish politicians would stop calling/e-mailing/showing up in ads on my feed asking me for money. I'm not giving you a fucking dime. Zero. Zip. I've been voting since 1988, and I've yet to give any of you one single solitary dime. And that was when I was optimistic! I'm not giving you shit now.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I voted as soon as they sent me my mail in ballot last month. I still checked to make sure I was registered. Please check to make sure you're still registered.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Dinner is at 8. Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup!"
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He should record a spooky version of the fake ass Swahili parts of ALL NIGHT LONG.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
DIGGER was a huge ass bomb. But I hope some foot fetishists got off on the DIGGER popcorn bucket.
Headline from Variety says "Box Office: 'Digger' Majorly Bombs With $8 Million Opening Weekend, 'Verity' Scores $32 Million DebutThe Digger popcorn bucket is a cowboy boot.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"DAN TANA, BRING ME THE AXE!!" "Don't fuck with me, fellas! This ain't my first time as a stepmother!" "Why can't you treat me like any sitcom on the screen?!!" Nielsen family: Because we are not...one of your FAAAAAANS! (CBS cancels show after viewer gets pulled into the TV by Faye)
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When I was at TIFF, a few movie reviews were written by my colleagues. One reader wrote me asking if I'd gone to a different beat or left the paper. I assured him I was still on duty. Other people wrote HOPING that I'd quit or, even better, that I'd been killed. This is why I don't live in Boston.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They were like "oh, that guy must be a Jets fan!" (BAD ODIE!)
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've been The Boston Globe's film critic 4 years this month. I'll post a great layout by our team for one of my articles every week to celebrate. This was for LABYRINTH. Remains the best thing that ever happened to a Globe article of mine. You can solve it. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/08/a...
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That must be some good-ass bourbon!
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Apparently, I saw BRIDGE OF SPIES at NYFF 11 years ago today.
A photo of Steven Spielberg on the microphone introducing the cast of BRIDGE OF SPIES. Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance et al. are there.
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Well, the cats liked DIGGER." -Tom Cruise "I'm not THAT high." -Professor Fate
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The sequel to ROBONUN! RoboNun (pulls out gigantic yardstick made of steel) PUT DOWN YOUR COMIC BOOK. YOU HAVE 15 SECONDS TO COMPLY! High school kid: (puts comic book down) RoboNun: YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS TO COMPLY...
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I figured! Because I was like "Did Slant go to like 10 stars now?"
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Three stars is hot trash?!
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Odie Henderson @odienator.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Man, that Ellison-financed sequel to BARBIE looks more like PRETTY WOMAN to me.
This Barbie on an auction show went for $19,200. Barbie is dressed like a Hollywood Blvd. streetwalker with a mink coat and a bra underneath it.
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