Micheaux Mission

Bootober comes to a close on the Mission as Len shares his thoughts on Kid n Play and 'the 2nd Lionel Jefferson', Vincent talks reboot booty, A Top 5 Blackened Classic Movies leads into Six Degrees of D'urville which leads into their eagerly anticipated review of 2023's slept-on horror comedy The Blackening . Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email  micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on...

The Men of Micheaux spend this week of Bootober talking about Micheal Jackson, Eddie Murphy, Wolfman Jack, the Top 5 Black Sitcom Horror Reboots, Liv Tyler, Tom Hanks, Band of Brothers , Mary Tyler Moore, Elvis Presley, and 'honey' -- and then (1:05) there's Tyler Perry and his dependable piece of schlock starring his brass and 'neutered' alter-ego! Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email  michea...

Bootober keeps chilling folks all over as Vincent and Len talk sword & sandal flicks, the 1970s, more Black vampires in our midst, and (00:50) a cool review of writer-director Oz Rodriguez's Netflix horror-comedy. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email  micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, and Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave a Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe to the Mission o...

Bootober is here and Black horror has arisen from its icky crypt! So once Six Degrees of D’urville , the Top 5 Real Life Black Vampires, and The Many Loves of Issac the Bartender are dispensed with, (00:51) the Men of Micheaux examine a unique take on vampirism in writer-director Micheal O’Shea’s The Transfiguration . Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email  micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The M...

September’s DOC TO SCHOOL closes in style with director-producer Lisa Cortés sharing her close history on Hip-Hop, her personal take on sliced grapes for babies, challenges Vincent with her own Six Degrees of D’Urville and then joins the Men in a conversation about her newest documentary on the life and career of rock-n-roll originator Little Richard! Visit http://littlericharddocumentary.com/ for...

September's Doc to School continues as Len swears off (most) pretzel bites, Vincent remembers Motown in the 70s, 2012 in Hip-Hop welcomes the actual Frank Ocean, and (00:53) the Men of Micheaux take in the heartfelt story of the true originators of punk music, a band of brothers called Death. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email  micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, and Twitter...

Continuing their Doc To School campaign, the Men of Micheaux go from debates about Twix candy bar, Johnny Gill vs. Ralph Tresvant, Mac Miller, Watchmen , Alan Moore, and (00:44) the tragic story of jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen Morgan. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email  micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, and Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave a Voicem...

The Men of Micheaux go Doc To School as September is dedicated to great Black documentaries, starting with the classic peek into 80s Ballroom culture -- Paris Is Burning (1990). We also celebrate 50 years of hip-hop as we reveal the great moments from Sept 1990 and go from Six Degrees of D'Urville to Tituss Burgess and Colman Domingo. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email  micheauxmission@gmail...

Using the 5th week of August to repay the Bad Black Movie they owed you, the Men of Micheaux stuff this episode with everything! Missives from The Missionaries. The Blues Brothers. Gone With The Wind. Vampire Hookers. Jane Fonda. Vanity. Benny Hill! AND (00:58) Jeanne Bell, Rosanne Katon, Trina Parks, and Jayne Kennedy showing out and showing off in a Not-So-Bad cult favorite from the action-packe...

The Men of Micheaux chat about the late Ron Cephas Jones, the 30th anniversary of Living Single , the Kenan & Key reunion, a boy called Lil Pimp , and Jodi Foster vs Sweetback before (00:48) slipping on the slick threads of the one and only Willie Dynamite , featuring the swan song performance of the late Diana Sands. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email  micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The M...

Vincent and Len welcome Van Everette and Dana Dane of the popular syndicated The Scenario Radio Show just in time for chatter about The Blindside, Diff'rent Strokes , Six Degrees of Woody Strode & Chief Dan George, and a cringeworthy Top 5 Django . And then, it's time (00:45) to talk about Jonathan Majors, Regina King, Idris Elba, Delroy Lindo, and especially Zazie Beetz in director Jeymes Samuel'...

Cicely Tyson (and a young, energetic Geoffrey Holder) makes her feature film debut, and the great Ethel Waters nears the end of the road at the top of the call sheet in this 'diamond in the rough' YouTubed for your enjoyment by ReelBlack . That's about the only thing it has going for it (besides the sweaty villainy of Richard Ward), but this ep offers a TOP FIVE Black Gold Movies, SIX DEGREES of L...

The Men of Micheaux play Top Five BINGO , play Six Degrees of D’Urville and come together for their review on the Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones’ slice of this ol’ life - 1974’s The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings . Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email  micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, and Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave a Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subsc...

Len and Vincent are in ol’ school mode — all the way down to Len’s Batman PJs — as they race thru chatter about Netflix’s They Cloned Tyrone , Broadway’s Tony Award-winning SIX, the record-shattering premiere of Warner Bros’ Barbie and, of course, Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, and Rosario Dawson in Spike Lee’s polarizing He Got Game (00:55). Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email  micheauxmissio...

This week, we’re sharing an episode of The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks, a new podcast from the TED Audio Collective. It’s a six-part series that reckons with one of the most divisive characters in cinematic history, the online hatred he inspired, and what we can learn from it today. In this episode, host Dylan Marron goes beyond the fandom backlash and goes into some of the deeper questions about...

Stephanye Watts of the Be Reel Black Cinema Club joins the Men of Micheaux for an All-JASON Experience on the Mission. The Top 5 looks at Vincent's favorite Jason movies while Len challenges his partner to go Six Degrees of D'Urville Martin to Jason Issacs and Jason Robards. And (00:47) Stephanye has definitive thoughts on the timelessness of Jason's Lyric , despite the many accents of Allen Payne...

Four-time guest-of-the-show Maori Holmes sits in for the Mission’s YouTube debut of a review of The Best Man (1999) and a critique, assessment, and ultimate appreciation of the whole TBM Universe ( The Best Man Holiday, The Best Man: The Final Chapters ). Plus, we preview the ‘best movie festival in the world’ - BlackStar Film Festival , movin’ on up in Philly August 2nd - 6th. Visit blackstarfest...

Writer/producer Adell Coleman of the Say Their Name podcast sits in with the Men for a Top 5 Supporting Acts That Outshined their Leads, a mother impressive Vincent performance in Six Degrees, and a YouTube premiere review of Dreamgirls (2006). Plus -- where else in podcasting are folks talking about the career of Leslie Uggams? Grab your pair of SIM-ONE original designs from Len's niece Simone at...

Len cracks the waffle code. The Men lift up Nicole Beharie in their spotlight on Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down . Then it's Six Missives From The Missionaries and Six Degrees of D'Urville Martin to Jamaican-born actors. Then finally (55:08) Vincent listens as Len is triggered and captivated by Jimmy Cliff owning the screen in 1973's They Harder They Come . Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email  mi...

Film Critic and Historian TIM COGSHELL makes his Micheaux Mission debut to remember the late Jim Brown (and Raquel Welch and Burt Reynolds) and tag-team with Vincent for Top 5 Black/White Screen Relations of the 60s and Six Degrees of D'Urville Martin (Ex-Football Stars Turned Actors). Then, all three movie men review the 1969 spaghetti-western-ish 100 Rifles (00:49). Follow Tim Cogshell on CineGo...

The Men of Micheaux welcome comedian DARRYL CHARLES to the show for a double-size review (00:56) of Sony Animation's Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse. Plus, we offer career enhancement advice for Sinbad, go thru the Top 5 Superheroes Gone Black , and Vincent and Len visit the old school for Six Degrees of D'urville Martin . Catch Darryl Charles at Punchline Comedy in Philadelphia on June 30th-Ju...

Vincent and Len share their thoughts on the passing of the historic actor/athlete/activist Jim Brown and the first movie trailer for The Color Purple Broadway adaptation. Top Five looks at The SinBADS of it all, we go Six Degrees to Dana Carvey and Brendan Fraser, and (00:43) we review a bad movie (?) called The Cherokee Kid starring 90s ‘good guy’ Sinbad. Plus - Tickets for the Five On The Black...

Vincent and Len share their thoughts on Apple TV’s Silo , reveal the Top 5 Bad Black Career Moves, go Six Degrees of D’Urville to Adam Driver and Zachary Levi then (1:04) pull the curtain on Whoopi Goldberg’s chagrin aka the ill-fitted Theodore Rex . Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email  micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave Voicemail for Vincent &...

Vincent has interesting Love Boat/Fantasy Island thoughts to share with Len while Len introduces Vincent to the 70s wunderkind The Big Bus . Then after an action-packed Six Degrees of D'Urville to Jean-Claude Van Damme & Mel Gibson and Top Five Least Black Action Heroes, the Men settle in for a review of Mario Van Peeples miscast (again) in the 90s Bad Black Movie SOLO (1995). Rate & Review The Mi...

"Mother, MAY I have another Bad Black Movie" -- it's that beautiful time of the year again when the Men of Micheaux review some of the most cringe-worthy films ever made. Vincent has selected EXPECT NO MERCY with TaeBo action star Billy Blanks to kick things off (00:48) after Len shares a TOP FIVE reasons DC Comics stands for Dumb Crackers and Vincent connects D'Urville Martin with William Baldwin...