Micheaux Mission

Director Matty Rich leans on his Brooklyn community and the burgeoning stardom of actor Lawrence Guillard Jr. (The Wire, The Walking Dead) to tell the story of a complicated family living thru extraordinary personal strife. The 1991 Sundance Film Festival favorite gets the Micheaux treatment.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes...

Counter culture animator Ralph Bakshi mixes live action with incendiary cartoon images to create a daring controversial satire on African American life in the big city...or is it a stab into the gut of great mafia romance of the seventies? Or is it just a mess and a miss? The Men of Micheaux discuss, for your edutainment.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produc...

Vince is off buying a home but the Mission continues with comedian Darryl Charles and his special selection to kick off LISTENER MOVIE MONTH - 2009's blaxploitation parody superb BLACK DYNAMITE, starring Michael Jai White, Salli Richardson, Tommy Davidson, Byron Minns, Kym Whitley and a host of cameos, quotes and mind numbing kung fu hilarity.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network,...

It's the 50th stop on the Micheaux Mission so Vince and Len make it a big one, with a review of one of the seminal films of black cinema in the last 30 years - Robert Townsend's THE FIVE HEARTBEATS (1991). First they chat about songs that could/should be movies, read listener feedback and share the world's greatest iTunes review with one another.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate netwo...

Yup! It's 'Hollywood' from Ava DuVernay's hit OWN network drama 'Queen Sugar' - OMAR DORSEY - chatting with the Men about A Face In The Crowd, the lure of 'the Howard Woman', his time as America's 'Cookie', the amazing Tommy Davidson and Saion Glover, the Spike influence and his yearly devotion to the dark satire, 2000's Bamboozled. PLUS - more loveliness from songstress Carmen Rodgers!   *** This...

In a Micheaux Mission/Binge Lounge special presentation, Vince and Len ponder the many issues pumping through HOLIDAY HEART - starring Ving Rhames, Mykelti Williamson, directed by Robert Townsend and featuring someone purportedly to be Alfre Woodard. Plus - what never happened?   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We e...

Mixologist SUMMER WILLOW FITCH tosses together a delish concoction called Mo' Better (an adult drink or so I'm told) and joins the Men for a review of 1990's Spike Lee sexy drama MO' BETTER BLUES, starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes and introducing Cynda Williams.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage...

The Men announce the next celebrity jumping onboard the Mission to pull a spike out of the rails before they settle in for a historic review of the oldest Black film written, produced and directed by our namesake, the legendary Oscar Micheaux, titled WITHIN OUR GATES from 1920.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We e...

Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long and yes, THE Vanessa Williams give the performances of their careers in a film that helped shaped the future of black cinema for the early 2000s (for good and bad) - writer/director George Tillman's delectable SOUL FOOD.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website...

There have been numerous television shows over the years featuring actors and stories rich in the hues and culture of the African diaspora but has there ever been a time when the picks were equally as rich in quality. Vince and Len take a fun look at QUEEN SUGAR (OWN), ATLANTA (FX), INSECURE (HBO), LUKE CAGE (Netflix) withs stops at Greenleaf, The Get Down and even a trip back to In The Heat of Th...

The Men sat down and watched Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity and a car get upstaged by a not-yet-fully-formed Sharon Stone and lived to tell the story. And oh what a story their review of ACTION JACKSON turns out to be!   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for ou...

If it wasn't for Vince's requesting this movie for his birthday, Len would have seen Tyler Perry's TEMPTATION and would've spared himself the outrage that the reprehensibly bad film spawned inside of him.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more...

SIMONE MISSICK (Marvel's Luke Cage) sits down with the Men to discuss each and every theme, meme, line of dialogue, actor and actress and musical Easter eggs that make COMING TO AMERICA the most beloved Eddie Murphy movie of them all.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign u...

The Men get warm and comfy with SIMONE MISSICK of Netflix & Marvell's Luke Cage for a freewheeling energetic chat about Deltas, sorrow, Detroit Love (Hey Crown!), Aretha shade, pork, minks at the laundromat and much much more including SIMONE MISSICK JOINS THE TRIBBLE NATION! Plus, Len discovers CARMEN RODGERS!   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distrib...

The Men enjoy their first live event, a night of food, fun and film reviewing the infamous blaxploitation horror romp ABBY (1974) with special guests Tom & Mark of the Don't Touch My Coffin podcast https://soundcloud.com/donttouchmycoffin   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and si...

Here's a little story of how Martin and Sharon of the Cinemosity podcast on the Nerdy Little Secret network chose to review a blaxploitation horror flick starring 'Preacher' of Cooley High thinking it was one thing and come out of their convo with Men thinking something else. Kinda. Sorta. Just listen.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and...

The Graveyard Shift Sister herself - ASHLEE - returns to lead Len and Vince in a spirited review of Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott's TALES FROM THE HOOD . For more Ashlee, check out her podcast GIRLS WILL BE GHOULS https://girlswillbeghouls.wordpress.com   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit th...

Technical difficulties can't keep the Men of Micheaux from their appointed duty to review emails and critique director Bill Gunn's intriguing 'vampire' urban-gothic Ganja & Hess. And who else to critique it with than the person who brought it to our attention, Ashlee of the Girls Will Be Ghouls podcast and Graveyardshift Sisters.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company tha...

The Men begin a month of Black Horror Films with 1990's bloody tale of lust, sin and...AIDS? Kadeem Hardison, Bill Nunn and Samuel Jackson try to salvage James Bond III's directorial debut.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information abo...

Acclaimed actors Lupita Nyong'o and David Oyelowo lend immense prestige to director Mira Nair's heartfelt sports drama but it is Madina Nalwanga and the first time acting children of this beautiful, humble and dangerous city in Africa who bring the #1 spice for sure! Walt Disney should be proud. Featuring Young Cardamom & HAB - #1 Spice   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a comp...

Listener feedback, winning iTunes comments, a running commentary and the coolest man ever to walk the planet. COTTON COMES TO HARLEM in 1970 with smoothness and wit following close behind.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information abou...

Comedian Chris Rock casts himself as a comic slash actor who has lost his way in the Hollywood machine through no fault but his own struggling to swim in self redemptive waters as reporter Rosario Dawson paddles nearby with a life preserver. The romantic comedy / satire / tour de force that _______________ was born to play.   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that prod...

The episode has listener email, Twitter commentary, several huge announcements, impromptu guest appearances from Tribbles with Red Capes and a critical look at a quirky piece of cinema from Ossie Davis - PURLIE VICTORIOUS   *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our new...

Writer-Director Gina Prince Bythewood has pulled exceptional star-making performances from two young leads - Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Nate Parker - whose careers shine as brilliant as the sunsets chased by the cinematographer. But is this all sheen and no foundation underneath? *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourag...

Yaphet Kotto in a comedy. Talented young actors speaking a jive dialect unlike any spoken before. Rudy Ray Moore exists. The Monkey Hustle. What is The Monkey Hustle? The movie doesn't know. Do you? *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more informat...