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Odie Henderson
@odienator.bsky.social
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.
Dammit. It's in 3-D. To me, that's as useless as tits on a bull.
December 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
People are still mad about what I wrote about Spielberg's remake back at Slate in 2021.
December 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Last year, I added a star ratings graph to my end of year movie wrap-up in the Globe. Since I keep all this info in a DB I've maintained for 33 years now, I could easily query out the year and provide the data. As a mathematician, I like seeing numerical measurements. I'm curious how 2025 pans out.
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In honor of his appearances in WAKE UP DEAD MAN and BLUE MOON, here's a photo of some film critic and Andrew Scott.
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The gods of journalism are punishing me today. An article I was on the hook for writing (and had secretly hoped would be ignored) has been the number one article on the entire website for the past two hours. It ran online on Friday, but is in print today. Drat!

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/a...
November 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This lady's hair makes her look like a Peanuts character come to life.
November 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Thanksgiving and the day after were a big deal when I was a kid because of Channel 9's TV lineup of King Kong on Thursday and Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster on Friday. I never liked that Smog Monster movie BUT my cousins and I would sing its theme song at the top of our lungs.

youtu.be/kC1CGrVuGV8
November 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
My cousins and I would laugh at Franklin being the sole member on that side of the table at Thanksgiving. He gets the broken chair, too. Don't think I didn't notice that shit, Charlie Brown! Franklin existed solely so the Peanuts gang could say "I'm not racist! Some of my best friends are Black!"
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I wrote a book on the history of Blaxploitation films, and my history with them. Contains a list of the top 10 Blaxploitation movie songs and a look at familiar and lesser known movies from the era of bad mother SHUT YO MOUTHs!
November 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Once again, I am NUMBER ONE!
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
In honor of Udo Kier, here's the time we shared a logo with a bunch of other famous people.
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I hope one of them was Ulla!
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
You can be the President
I'd rather be the Pope!
You can be the side effect
I'd rather be the dope.
November 23, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Um, no way dude. Blocked.
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Happy 3rd anniversary of me getting the f*ck off Twitter.
November 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
They just cast the leads in the movie adaptation of AMERICAN CANTO!
November 19, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Thanks to the folks who came out to @thecoolidge.bsky.social for my seminar on ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW and for the movie. We had a great crowd for the screening!
November 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
STOP THE PRESSES!!
November 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
For good?!
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Happy Odd Couple Day!
November 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Look, Ma! I've got the number one most read article on the Boston Globe website right now. I even beat articles on the Patriots!
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Please don't be bad.
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
My 500th Boston Globe article ran in today's paper! Granted, it ran in print AFTER my 499th, 501st, 502nd and 503rd pieces did on Friday, but it was still the 500th article posted online.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/05/a...
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Her heel? You mean her razor!!
November 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I wrote about MAHOGANY in my book, BLACK CAESARS AND FOXY CLEOPATRAS! This movie is sooooo bad! But that theme song is aces.
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM