Welcome to My Hood Film

Marv and Oni decide to check out a hood film documentary with their guest Paul Dagliolo. They put him on to the legendary documentary, Backstage, which showcased a day behind the scenes of the Hard Knock Life Tour featuring Jay-Z, Method Man, Redman, Ja Rule, and the late great DMX.  

Marv and Oni are back! This time in honor of women's history month, we decided to show our guest Sabrina Piper the film Woo, starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Tommy Davidson.  

Oni and Marv start the New Year off right with another indie hood film. This time they check out a movie from Kansas City called Drout. 

Marv and Oni get some drinks flowing with guest Cansu Karabiyik as we put her on to the movie "Friday after Next".  We get her views on the film and answer the age old question of if "Friday after Next" is indeed a Christmas movie.

Marv and Oni close out the year 2021 checking out another indie hood film.  They review "Good Boys for Life" currently streaming on Amazon and see if it's worthy of being called a hood film.  

We keep the Thanksgiving tradition going with showing another film about family, tradition, and of course...the HOOD! We put our guest Mackenzie Graves on the the film "The Wood".

We come back home for the holidays as we show a deep film about family.  But do know we got a lot to say. We even bring in our old friend AJ Thompson to dive into this interesting webseries. 

We scare our guest Divya Gunasekaran into the film "Tales from the Hood". She tells us as a horror movie fan if it stacks up to the mainstream horror films like "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th".  

Marv and Oni pay their respects to comedian AJ Johnson, by putting their guest Dan Wickes on to the film "I got the Hook Up" which starred AJ Johnson.  

Marv and Oni put their mission of putting the world onto the hood one film at a time on hold, to pay respect send their condolences to actor Michael K. Williams, who recently died in September. They discuss his impact as an actor, his legend status, and the fact that he acted in three hood films that were discussed on our show. 

Oni and Marv return from a mini summer vacation and get right back to work. Next up, the film Brown Sugar that came out in 2002. Our guest Suzanne Lea Shepherd watches the film and takes notes. She also asks us to define a legendary word from the hood. 

Marv and Oni decide to get their inner movie critic on and see if there are any independent films from the hood out there.  They review a film from California called "Tunnel Vision" and test the waters to see if it's hood film certified by them.

We get animated once again as we put our guest Brian Rabadeau on to the film "MKFZ".  We get behind the real meaning of the title, talk with Brian about comic books, and find out the strange mystery of one of the main characters. 

We go way back with our next episode as we put our guest Lisa Harmon on to the OG spoof film, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka".  WE get her views on the film, see how she feels about gold chains, and have Oni tell us some of what Kenan Ivory Wayans's character took from the military itself. 

We get our post father's day vibes on and go waist deep (no pun intended) with Matt Fishman as we put him on to the movie "Waist Deep".  We get his reactions to the film as he gets into his feel on the thought of putting the hood in fatherhood, the game vs tyrese and more. 

We take a trip to the streets of New Orleans as we put the wodie "Damon Millard" on to the movie "Baller Blockin" starring New Orleans' finest legends, the Cash Money Millionaires.  We get his views on the film, learn together about New Orleans culture, and try our hardest to understand the ending.  

We find out what's the craic with Ireland's own Katie Boyle as we put her on to the movie "Booty Call". Katie also puts Marv and Oni on to how the hood be in Ireland, and reveals how some of her past relationships relate to this film. 

Weed is finally legal in NY (although it never mattered to Oni). So we decided to show the infamous stoner cult classic "How High" to our homie Cher Landman. We chop it up with her about the film, resolve her confusion as to who is Redman and who is Method Man, and hear her tell a story about a time she hung out with a legendary NY rapper. Tune in to find out which rapper it is. 

2 years later and we're still going strong. We celebrate our historic milestone by getting our very first guest from our debut episode Alison Klemp. When we first started we showed her a Cam'ron film and so we figured why not show her ANOTHER Cam'ron film. Join us as we put her on to the 2014 film "Percentage".   

For our third installment of the Rep your Hood Film series, we chop it up with our third member of the Hood Film Squad, AJ Thompson as we say goodbye to DMX one last time. We discuss his impact to the hood as well as in hood films, music, and more. 

As we approach our 2 year anniversary, we decide to toast with a 420 pregame celebration. We put our boy Alex Fossella on to the 2012 film "Mac & Devin Go To High School". We chop it up about his admiration for old black cinemas.  We also talk about the impact it had for all weed smokers. FYI: no weed was smoked during the recording of this episode.

Marv and Oni get fancy and find a studio in the hood. They also bring their guest Mercer Morrison in to put him on to Above the Rim. They talk sports, and it's impact in the NY and hood scene. They also bring up their athletic days before stand up. 

We're back putting someone else onto another hood film. This time we put our new homie Ellya onto the 2014 film "School Dance" directed by Nick Cannon. We get her views about the film, and listen to how she compares this film to "High School Musical".  

No guests again this week. So Marv and Oni decided to do a special culture themed episode of our spinoff series Rep Your Hood Film. In this installment we sit down and chop it up about hood films in general. We discuss what made our mission with this podcast and discuss the impact hood films had on our lives as well as it's representation to the culture. We also answer the age old question to the...

Due to the pandemic we were unable to get a guest to put a hood film on to. So instead, Marvin and Oni stayed in their hood and checked out the independent webseries on YouTube entitled, "Land of the Pheen Episode 2". This is new so we're putting ourselves onto a new hood film. We talk about the film and what it meant to us to see a hood in Arizona (Spoiler Alert: It ain't brick!)