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Odie Henderson @ NYFF
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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 · Feb 19
I wrote a book on Blaxploitation Cinema! Ya damn right! It's called BLACK CAESARS AND FOXY CLEOPATRAS: A HISTORY OF BLAXPLOITATION CINEMA. Available at bookstores, libraries and even an audiobook (read by moi). If you want to get a copy, ask yo' mama!
The cover of my book BLACK CAESARS AND FOXY CLEOPATRAS: A HISTORY OF BLAXPLOITATION CINEMA.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 8h
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE needs to blow up. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/a...
‘A House of Dynamite’ is defused by an unnecessary screenplay gimmick - The Boston Globe
Director Kathryn Bigelow's latest loses all of its tension with its repetitive storytelling.
www.bostonglobe.com
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 15h
The MAHOGANY chapter in my book is called I'M MAHOGANY AND YOU'RE NOTHING.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 15h
Thank you!
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 19h
I'll be there next week.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
The KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN end credits card that read "For Fred, Terrence and Chita" got to me. I saw Chita in it on Broadway.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
At the late night Odie Feature Picture Show tonight:

KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

followed by

TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE

(jaunty music plays)
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
Drat. I wish I could have gotten on the Tron Bike!!

LFF? London Film Festival?
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
I have a 5:20 am train to Boston tomorrow morning so I can participate in our annual GlobeDocs series. I also have SIX articles due this week (two are up now) and I'm covering the NYFF closing night film on Friday, Bradley Cooper's "Is My Nose On?"

Wake me when this week is over.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
And my less enthusiastic, marginal thumbs down review, which seems to be between Matt's rave and everyone else's brutal pans.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/a...
Nine Inch Nails’s dynamite score brings ‘Tron: Ares’ closer to good - The Boston Globe
The band’s booming soundtrack makes the latest entry in the "Tron" franchise work better than it should.
www.bostonglobe.com
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
I'm always interested in reading a rave review from @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social, even if I don't agree about the movie. It's funny, because when I left TRON: ARES last night, I thought "Matt will enjoy this--it's his kind of messy."

I love when I'm right. Read!

www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tron...
TRON: Ares movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert
“TRON: Ares” is spectacularly designed, swiftly paced, thoughtfully written, and directed within an inch of its neon-hued life.
www.rogerebert.com
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
Part of what I said in my NYFF coverage (full review runs next week)
"“Nothing is supposed to make sense” is a more apt phrase to describe this spineless attempt at a conversation-starter. Nora Garett’s screenplay plays as if she spun a Wheel of Fortune loaded with provocations and kept landing on bankrupt. Maggie is Black solely so she can accuse Alma of racism. Maggie is also a lesbian who’s in a relationship with a nonbinary person the movie treats like garbage. Hank has problems with consent. Alma is an angry drunk in a hilariously passive-aggressive marriage with Frederik (Michael Stuhlbarg, the best thing in this debacle)."
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
YAY!!!! In full agreement!
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
I can take credit for that headline. Thanks!
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
This is why I can never run for President. Every other sentence I say begins with "these/those/that/this muthafucka(s) is [adjective]."
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
The Roof, the roof, the roofman's on fire! We don't need no water...

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/a...
Channing Tatum fails to raise the roof in ‘Roofman’ - The Boston Globe
This true crime story undercuts its tension with a sappy sitcom romance.
www.bostonglobe.com
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
Tron: Ares isn't THAT bad, folks. I kinda liked it, though not enough to recommend.

But that NIN score...whoa!

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/a...
Nine Inch Nails’s dynamite score brings ‘Tron: Ares’ closer to good - The Boston Globe
The band’s booming soundtrack makes the latest entry in the "Tron" franchise work better than it should.
www.bostonglobe.com
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
That soundtrack is a banger. And I saw it on IMAX. I'd take a nephew or niece to see it in IMAX if they wanted. I've sat through far worse more than once.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
Goofy singing "Closer" wouldn't do it for me, either.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
Wait until you have to eat the Subway tie-in "Ares" footlong!
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
People are a lot meaner to this movie than I was, and I'm not sure why. It's not good, but it's nowhere near as bad as y'all are saying it is.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
It didn't train on my book, either! 10 Oscars? At least the dumbass robot didn't say it cured the racisms.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
Star: Box office is not important! Don't believe the box office! Box office! Box office! (In Al Jolson voice) 🎶BAAAAAHHHHX AWWWWFICE! Wah wah wah!! 🎶

Me: It's not? Then why the hell did you make any comments about it in the first place, you petulant bitch?
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
ooh! Send them my article on it after you watch! My techie heart loves this movie:

www.slantmagazine.com/film/compute...
Computer Nerds As Superheroes: Phil Alden Robinson’s Sneakers at 25 - Slant Magazine
In many ways, Phil Alden Robinson’s 'Sneakers' follows the blueprint for today’s endless glut of superhero movies.
www.slantmagazine.com
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
In honor of TRON: ARES (you'll figure out why)

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Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
YouTube video by DepecheModeVEVO
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 1d
(English translation of her most famous song)

🎶Dominique, a nique a nique,
This song is filthy and in French
It's raunchy and it's fun
If you only knew the truth
it would give you all the proof
that I'm not really a nun!🎶

(Sister Grace, Odie's former nun teacher, beats him with ruler.)
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Up next on TCM @tcm-up-next.bsky.social · 1d
THE SINGING NUN (1965) — 8:30 am ET — 1h 38m
(TCM Daytime: '60s Musicals)

Debbie Reynolds, Ricardo Montalban, Greer Garson; directed by Henry Koster

Fanciful biography of the Belgian nun who briefly made the hit parade.

#TCM #TCMParty
The Singing Nun (1965)
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