Micheaux Mission

Len presents a choice Top 5 listing of Not Ready For Leading Men and Vincent goes from Six Degrees of D’Urville Martin to two famed actor/singers of the 00s; and then (00:46), we review The Candy Tangerine Man and nothing will ever be the same again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Men of Micheaux answer listener mail that gets them thinking MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS THAT WORK; then they pay their respects for a quartet of luminaries we lost this week - NBA and civil rights legend BILL RUSSELL, voice actor PAT CARROLL, and actresses MARY ALICE and NICHELLE NICHOLS; Vincent takes the D'Urville Martin train to Dennis Haysbert and Rihanna; and (00:56) the Men review 1976's movie (is it a flick or is it a vibe?) CAR WASH. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We remember actress/activist Nichelle Nichols (1932-2022) by revisiting their review of 1974's Truck Turner, which featured a Nichols' performance unlike any she ever gave before or after, as well as a bonus treat -- Len's 2015 interview with Ms. Nichols from the Great Philadelphia Comic Convention, where she shares anecdotes from her dance and acting career and her private thoughts on her recently departed Star Trek co-star Leonard Nimoy. We mention the great documentary highlighting Nichols' relationship with NASA in the 70s and 80s -- Women In Motion (2019), available online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent and Len let the listener mail (and voicemail!) lead them in a chat about the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever trailer, the wave of new projects announced at Comic-Con - special attention to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Then the Men of Micheaux share their spoiler-free thoughts on Jordan Peele's Nope. Plus the Top 5 Race Swap in Movies is surprising, Six Degrees of D'urville Martin is rejected this week by Vincent in protest and (1:04) 1969's Change of Mind is more than meets the tagline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Len shares a touching story about cartoonist Robb Armstrong (Jump Start) and his connection with Peanuts and gives his TOP 5 Dumb Superhero Movies, in honor of Thor: Love and Thunder. Vincent loves Tyra Ferrell but 30-40s star Claude Rains doesn't easily compute in his D'Urville-centric mind. And CHAMELEON STREET is the indy film that could, though there's an argument over whether or not it did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Men of Micheaux get very nerdy on this one with discussions about Batman, writer Grant Morrison, The Doom Patrol, and The Boys stuffed between Len’s referendums for Great Balls of Fire and (gasp!) The Goonies. But all is right in the world when Gugu Mbatha-Raw portrays Belle (2013) in a costume drama that tickles all of Len’s fancies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author, film historian Josiah Howard (Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide) joins the Men of Micheaux in the creation of a shared universe from the classic 70s genre flicks. They choose between Cotton Comes To Harlem and Sweet Sweetback Badass Song the planet Krypton in our funky stratosphere. The men argue for the 7 members of the Blaxploitation Avengers and connect the dots of adventure, supernatural, kung-fu and action in the 'BCU". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s a Not-Quite-Top-5 of Aretha Franklin song-inspired movie pitches, 20 minutes on Milli Vanilli (and for why?), Len has choice words For All Mankind, a Six Degrees of D’Urville stumper named Albert Finney has Vincent flummoxed and the majesty that is the Queen of Soul herself in the place where she lives - the church - bringing us her Amazing Grace (2018) in a beautiful documentary impossible to ignore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Journalist Justin Tinsley @justintinsley, author of It Was All A Dream: Biggie and The World That Made Him joins the Mission to share his thoughts on Notorious from 2009 as well as his homegrown love for NBA great Allen Iverson. The Men and friends share Hip-Hop moments that they want to see acted out on film, Vincent wows Justin in Six Degrees of D'Urville Martin and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Tony Awards catch Len's attention which leads to bold admission by the Man of Micheaux. Meanwhile, Vincent has some words on The Man Who Fell to Earth. Top 5 James Browns (Caucasian division) has Elvis coming aboard the Mission. Six Degrees of D'Urville goes to Joaquin Phoenix and Sissy Spacek and (1:00) GET ON UP: THE JAMES BROWN STORY paints a dividing line between our guys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We wish a Happy Birthday to the late Prince Rogers Nelson and create a Intro to Prince playlist. Len debuts Top 5 Birds of Movie History while Vince takes the long road from D’Urville to Emilio. And we review Clint Eastwood’s long play biopic Bird, starring Forest Whitaker. (00:54) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent and Len get called out for a Penelope mishap, a listener waits for a angry voice from our past, Six Degrees unlocks the filmographies of Steven Seagal and Jennifer Connelly, Top 5 reveals the Nia Long co-stars that Len envies the most and Don Cheadle directs a masterpiece in 2015’s Miles Ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Men go from listener mail to the TOP 5 Black Roles of Embarrassment with a #1 that will shock you but is well-earned. Then SIX DEGREES OF D’URVILLE goes from Ernest Borgnine to Penelope Cruz to The History of the Three Stooges. Finally, its time to review one of the worst movies of all-time - for all the wrong (right?) reasons — Bill Cosby’s Leonard Part 6 (how’s THAT for a credit line?) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This one is obese; no B.S. We're diving ride into 'Mother, MAY I Have Another One of Those Bad Black Movies' with 1986's Soul Man starring C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong and James Earl Jones (WTF?) and we cast the new Blade soundtrack, list the Top 5 white roles that code as black, chart the careers of Cher and Michael J Fox and Diana Ross in Six Degrees of D'Urville and a whole lot more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A live audience joins the Men of Micheaux in celebration of their 300th episode. Vincent learns which man loves more on the Mission then he divulges the origin of the Charcuterie Fridays. Its the Kung-Fu edition of Six Degrees of Durville, Len remembers Nia Long in Love Jones and (00:55) its the review of BAD BOYS, the remixed template for action cop movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices