Odie “Odienator” Henderson is currently the chief film critic of The Boston Globe, a position he has held since 2022. But before that, he spent 11 years as one of the Ebert site’s regular contributors. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here.
A lover of film noir, musicals, Blaxploitation, bad art and good trash, he is also the author of “Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema.” He has written for Slant Magazine’s The House Next Door blog since 2006. His work has also appeared in The Village Voice, Vulture, Cineaste Magazine, the Criterion Collection (his essay is on “The Learning Tree”), Slate, Salon, and of course, here at RogerEbert.com where he still occasionally contributes.
Based in the NYC area, Odie retired from a 35-year career in Information Technology back in 2022 to pursue his lifelong dream of being a newspaper man. Something is wrong with that guy.
