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John Witherspoon: 1942-2019
A tribute to John Witherspoon.
Odie "Odienator" Henderson has spent over 33 years working in Information Technology. He runs the blogs Big Media Vandalism and Tales of Odienary Madness. Read his answers to our Movie Love Questionnaire here.
A lover of film noir, musicals, Blaxploitation, bad art and good trash, Odie has been a Far Flung Correspondent since 2011. He has written for Slant Magazine's The House Next Door blog since 2006. He is the troublemaker responsible for the Black History Mumf series at Big Media Vandalism. His work has also appeared in The Village Voice, Vulture, Cineaste Magazine, MovieMezzanine, Movies Without Pity, Salon, and of course, here at RogerEbert.com.
In 2013, Odie entered the world of film festival programming, presenting 9 movies at the Off Plus Film Festival in Krakow, Poland.
Based in the NYC area, Odie enjoys writing code almost as much as he enjoys writing prose. Something is wrong with that guy.
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A tribute to John Witherspoon.
A report on four films, new and old, from the final days of the New York Film Festival.
A dispatch from the New York Film Festival on the latest from Arnaud Desplechin, Justine Triet, Lou Ye, and Martin Scorsese.
A tribute to the late, great John Singleton.
The best films of 2018, according to Odie Henderson.
A report from the New York Film Festival on two new films and a classic.
A dispatch from the New York Film Festival on two documentaries and two revivals of film noir classics.
A tribute to the Queen of Soul.
A feature on the RogerEbert.com pick for Best Supporting Actor.
Odie Henderson shares his favorites and highlights from this year's New York Film Festival.
