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All posts by Odie Henderson
10 Movies I’ve Seen Too Many Times To Count
I was recently asked how many times I’d seen All About Eve, the movie that topped my 10 best of all time list. To my surprise, I realized I’d seen it about 20-25 times since I first saw it in on video in 1987. That didn’t seem like a great number for a movie I...
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History of Film: Spike Lee’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ — Dynamite Under Every Seat
Do the Right Thing is currently #5 on my all time best movies list. It was my best film of 1989 as well, earning the top slot after my emotional first viewing of it at Jersey City’s State Theater. The State is where I was introduced to director Spike Lee’s wo...
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‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’: PG-13 Prestige with a Hint of Freaky-Deaky
The trailer for the movie formerly known as The Butler looked like the love child of Stanley Kramer and Irwin Allen’s casting agent. Here was an old-fashioned “prestige picture” with an all-star cast in unusual roles. At its center is Forrest Whitaker playing ...
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10 Plane Crazy Movies
After 7 years of the jet-setting lifestyle, my tired old body forced me to take a non-travel position at my job. Two weeks into my new role, the realization that I’m literally grounded for life hit me like a ton of bricks. For 1/6th of my life, I travelled th...
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10 Quality Movies That Left Their Hearts in San Francisco
San Francisco is my second favorite city in America. My job headquarters is there, which means I get to see the City by the Bay at least twice a year. Like my favorite city, New York, San Francisco has given us so many cinematic contributions. It’s made people...
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10 Denzel Washington Performances
If Tom Hanks is my generation’s Jimmy Stewart, then Denzel Washington is its Sidney Poitier. Washington’s career in some ways parallels Poitier’s, though even at his most noble, he had the luxury of adding more bite than Poitier could in his heyday. As a sexy ...
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10 Films By Folks Born on Royal Baby Day
If you were anywhere near a television on July 22nd, you knew that the Royal Crumbsnatcher made his entrance in England. The blessed event (and the countdown to the blessed event, and the countdown to the countdown to the blessed event) received massive media ...
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10 Movies That Became TV Shows
When television became popular, the Cassandras of days gone by predicted it would ruin the movies. “Nobody will pay money,” they said, “when they can stay home and get entertained for free.” These predictors of cinematic doom forgot several things:
1. Peopl...
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10 Memorable Movie Beach Scenes
As summer continues, our weekly Movie Mezzanine list turns its attention to a popular seasonal destination, the beach. No matter where you are in this world, the beach promises you sand, sunburn and summer lovin’ as soon as your bare feet step onto it. Like a...
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10 Movies With Scenes At An Amusement Park
The 4th of July is upon us, and if your parents were like mine, you went to the amusement park on America’s Birthday. I remember sweaty, un-air conditioned station wagon rides to Hershey Park, Dorney Park and Great Adventure (if you called it Six Flags, you w...
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