Micheaux Mission

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 Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, and Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave a Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 the character. Why did many see Jar Jar as a racial stereotype? What does that say about Jar Jar’s place in the world of Star Wars and Hollywood history overall? And how did all of the frenzy affect the actor who brought the character to life? If you’d like to hear the rest of the series, follow The Redemption of Jar Jar Binks wherever you get your podcasts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 and Jada Pinkett-Smith. 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 on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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.org for tickets because THE MISSION WILL BE THERE LIVE! 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 on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Sim-One Collection @ Market Street Online Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 CineGods.com Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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-July 1st -- Tix on Sale Now Five On The Black Hand Side screening and live podcast, Wed July 19 @ Bryn Mawr Film Festival -- Tix on Sale Now Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Hand Side Live Screening at The Bryn Mawr Film Festival are on sale NOW! ate & Review The Mission on Apple Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 & Len 215-867-9666 Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Mission on Apple Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"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 and Goldie Hawn. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Leave a voicemail 215-867-9666 Follow The Mission on IG, Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Men of Mcheaux devote much of the show's first half to honoring Harry Belafonte (1927-2023), who passed away earlier in the day, including turning over the TOP FIVE to his best performances. There's SIX DEGREES of D'URVILLE, a short Superman '78 - Batman '89 retrospective, and then (00:46) a review of the mesmerizing NEPTUNE FROST (2021) from director Saul Williams. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent has some beef with Netflix's Beef and Samuel Jackson's hairstyle choices. Len shares a Top Five They Should Be Legend, featuring 'The Black Lucille Ball," and Vincent takes forever and a day to go Six Degrees of D'Urville Martin to Maggie Smith. Then (1:07) the Men of Micheaux visit the 'Should've-Been-Legendary" I Am Legend starring Will Smith as you've never seen him before or since. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, Twitter @micheauxmission  Leave Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe to the Mission on YouTube  Get your Micheaux Mission SWAG from TeePublic We are a proud member of The Podglomerate - we make podcasts work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices