Odie Henderson

A grey kitten laying on a pillow next to my copy of the Ina Garten memoir. At the NYC cat cafe, Meow Parlour.

"Store bought cat is fine."

Thanks for giving me somebody else to block today. I hate when people play dumb about bullshit like this.

It should be read by somebody doing a real shitty Betty Boop imitation.

Pantone: We've chosen white as our color of 2026. Now, let's see it in action at our fashion show!

(Cut to the Klan scene from O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU.)

Feel better. I've had five concussions, which may explain a lot.

‘Boston was always a great movie town,’ says filmmaker John Waters - The Boston Globe The Pope of Trash is now a Coolidge Award winner.

I'm glad I got to interview John Waters before he hated me!

www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/14/a...

I got to see it on Broadway, but I'm looking forward to this, too.

Though I'd been listening to the songs he played on well before THE BLUES BROTHERS, that movie is where I first saw Steve Cropper and learned who he was. RIP.

youtu.be/250MMq0fTrU

I had to sit through this on Monday. The villain looks like a big ass chicken.

Ethan Hawke on receiving the Coolidge Award, his work with Linklater, and acting with Denzel Washington - The Boston Globe The actor heads to the Coolidge Corner Theatre to receive the Coolidge Award.

I interviewed Ethan Hawke.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/02/a...

This was about as surprising as my ass being Black when I woke up this morning.

Avatar 3 screen

Dammit. It's in 3-D. To me, that's as useless as tits on a bull.

Hope there's a Five Nights at Freddy's Christmas to go with Chuck E. Cheese's version.

What is a cookin' apple?!

You'll get no argument from me there.

Ansel Elgort isn't in WHIPLASH.

You better pay 'em, and not in movie/restaurant tie-in coupons, either! Cold, hard cash! Because nobody wants to eat the Marty Supreme Meal at Mickey D's, where the two all-beef patties in the Big Mac have been replaced with ping pong paddles.

Down With West Side Story Spielberg’s unnecessary remake flopped because it wasn’t actually for anyone.

Since Spielberg's remake of the Puerto Rican Porgy and Bess is in the news AGAIN, here's me (sick as a dog in 2021) giving the finger to the musical and the (White, of course) critics who shamed themselves by yelling at Latinos and other audience members when it flopped.

slate.com/culture/2021...

"Who was this remake of West Side Story for? Perhaps it’s for Steven Spielberg. More power to a man who’s done enough classics where he can command this type of vanity project. But he should have known that the Latinos of today don’t want to see themselves portrayed this way any more than I want to keep seeing slavery movies. I think Kushner’s changes made the material worse, because no matter what he did, the plot remained the same. Same bullshit, now with more brown people. But I nonetheless gave it two and a half stars, the exact rating I gave the original that, in my youth, I was forcibly subjected to 50 million times on WPIX. Ariana DeBose was just too good to ignore, and Rachel Zegler mopped the floor with the black hole of charisma that is Ansel Elgort."

People are still mad about what I wrote about Spielberg's remake back at Slate in 2021.

"Attention must be paid...and the box office needs to be paid, too!"

YouTube video by compukatz The Honeymooners - Ralph Kramden & Norton Dance The Hucklebuck - Clip

Those orgasmic reviews of MARTY SUPREME force me to post the old, reliable video I always post when the hyperbole starts flying. Critics are dancing the Hucklebuck...again.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vihn...

This is a movie I always thought deserved more love.

www.slantmagazine.com/film/summer-...

And why do the cats look like CGI?

Dave, YOU SIGNED UP FOR CATNIP CHRISTMAS, and now it's MEOW TIME!!

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Papyrus - SNL

In honor of what I have to see today...

youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ

He liked converting all their sighs of woe into hey nonny nonny, y'know.

Grrrrr! That was a whole lotta nothin' from White Boy Steve.

poster for daughters of the dust

nw, apparently this was the first film made by a black female director to get a theatrical release in the US

in.............1991

Note that this was just the movies I reviewed. I see more movies than I review.

It's a bar graph with a count of movies by star rating. So: 0 stars: 2 1/2 * : 4 * : 6 *1/2 : 13 ** : 20 **1/2 : 9 *** : 29 ***1/2 : 21 **** : 9

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.