Micheaux Mission

Len and Vincent have it out over the ultra-violent A Clockwork Orange, find a Marvel Cinematic role for Denzel Washington, leapfrog from D'Urville Martin to Jack Nicholson AND Michael Jackson. (00:53) Then they turn their attention to Gordon Parks' Leadbelly and the fun stops cold (despite the 'wondrous' Art Evans). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's James Earl Jones' birthday which means Star Wars trivia which leads to the new Shakespeare adaptation The Tragedy of Macbeth which gets us into Six Degrees of D'Urville Martin to Jennifer Aniston and William Holden which takes us to Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke WITH Macy Gray in Antoine Fuqua's Training Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent and Len discuss the absence of Chapstick from pleasant society, the mystery of Baltimore’s famed Lake Trout sandwich, and crab-eating 101. Then Vincent deflates Len’s bubble with his “D’Urvilliany” and Len is equally disappointed by Richard Pryor’s JoJo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling; though Debbie Allen is right! (00:39) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent and Len share their thoughts on the legacy and the films of Sidney Poitier, who passed away at the age of 94 on Jan 6th 2022. The Men of Micheaux talk about his iconic roles in films such as In The Heat of The Night, A Raisin in The Sun, his less popular yet no less poignant work in Paris Blues, Brother John and A Warm December, his comedic turns with Bill Cosby and Harry Belafonte, and evenhis 'efforts' in career missteps like The Long Ship and Ghost Dad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Men of Micheaux pay tribute to the year of Soylent Green and the passing of actor-producer Max Julien (1933-2022) before this week's Six Degrees of D'Urville Martin has them waxing nostalgic about Grandpa Al Lewis of The Munsters fame and The Lone Ranger aka actor Clayton Moore. And they still find time to review (00:41.25) Juice (1992) by Ernest Dickerson and featuring the acting debt of Tupac Shakur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent and Len close out 2021 by correcting an omission from last week’s Philly Tree of Hip-Hop, find their way into a chat about the Gabor Sisters, discuss how many movie degrees separate D’Urville from Marilyn, reveal their Ultimate Christmas Music and Movie Playlists, AND THEN settle into a review of 2007’s This Christmas, featuring a menacingly and pleasantly distracting Idris Elba and Regina King, among many others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Len quizzes Vincent on the ‘tree’ of Philly Hip-Hop, play 6 Degrees of D’Urville Martin all the way to Hugh Bonneville (?) and (00:29) review Netflix’s Jingle Jangle, A Christmas Journey (2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joanne Griffith of American Public Media is a very good sport about some tech difficulties as well as Vincent's unabashed stalling on the 6 Degrees of D'Urville and his blond actor woman blind spot then (00:43) shares her love of Hidden Figures (2016). Oh, the math of it all! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Men of the Micheaux Mission hold a panel discussion a the virtual IDIC Podcast Festival in July 2021 highlighting the toxicity of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Geordi La Forge’s relationship (ick!) with Dr. Leah Brahms. Vincent and Len flex their Trekker bonfides while calling out the problematic matters of consent prevalent in these 90s episodes that resonate still today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Len and Vincent engage on the life of the Cornish hen and the treachery of pigs, answer and listen to mail from the Missionaries, get stopped on the way from D’Urville Martin to Viola Davis and (00:35) review the Christmas classic Trading Places (1983). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent and Len read their listener mail then get into another round of Six Degrees of D’Urville Martin. The Men them lament the loss of intellectual chat on television before Len gets really riled up about the award-winning Raoul Peck doc about author James Baldiwn, I Am Not Your Negro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent and Len read listener mail and reminisce over Love, American Style from the 70s. They show appreciation for Love Life on HBOMax and it sparks a debate over iPad access…sorta. A new game show is born - Six Degrees of D’urville Martin and then it’s finally time to review 1967’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, starring Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Hepburn (50:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The crew of The Beat Connection podcast (Alexa Gold, Azrael DiCaprio and Shizz Shiz) join the Mission to discuss the methodology behind their excavation of hip-hop's greatest beats and samples to unearth their melodic roots and explain how DJ Premier stands shoulder to shoulder with Dr. Dre producer-wise. Then (00:21) we discuss colorism in Netflix's The Harder They Fall and get to our review (00:51) of a 'dressed-up' Pam Grier in Sheba Baby. Check out The Beat Connection on YouTube @ The Beat Connection 215. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor/comedian and now author Tommy Davidson sits with the Men to share his thoughts on comedy, Bruce Lee, and Sammy Davis Jr. In fact, 'Stevie Wonder' serenades Vincent for his birthday! And 'Cream Corn' of Black Dynamite gives the Mission a special 'moment'. Then (00:49) Vincent and Len get into their review of Spike Lee's hard-to-find Jungle Fever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent indulges Len’s impulse to review the Michael Jackson Disney short film Captain EO as a ‘horror’ film. And then they open up (47:42) on Grace Jones in Vamp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices