Micheaux Mission

Journalist and Scholar of Everything Prince Rogers Nelson Tonya Pendleton joins the Mission for the first review-redux for YouTube, 1984’s Purple Rain (53:27). Plus, listener mail, Six Degrees of D’Urville Martin to Grace Kelly and Christopher Guest and the Top 5 Prince Song Inspired Movie Pitches. 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...

Please enjoy another episode from our miniseries The Class of 1989! 1989 was not the year of the Black woman in film. The Color Purple was one of the few feature films in the 80s that centered on Black women, and it wouldn't be until 1992 that a Black woman would get theatrical distribution directing a film about Black women. Just like Anita Hill is often credited for the 1992 election being deemed 'the year of the woman,' what seeds were planted in '89 that inspired or provoked Black women...

The Men of Micheaux share their 'interesting' thoughts on the Oscars, riff through a historic Top 5 Black Speculative Fiction and super quick Six Degrees to Charlton Heston and Djimon Hounsou. And the rest of the show (44:03) is dedicated to their conflicting opinions of director Kasi Lemmons' HARRIET (2019), featuring Cynthia Erivo and Leslie Odom Jr. + friend-of-the-show Omar Dorsey. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple - Help us get to 200 reviews! Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The...

Six Black films. One historic year. An industry (and culture) transformed. We've just launched a miniseries, The Class of 1989. Listen to the debut episode here, then head on over to The Class of 1989 feed for more. Listen here: link.chtbl.com/-VGEVibH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special presentation from Toure Show, Spike Lee talks about making it in Hollywood. If you like what you hear, subscribe to Toure Show wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Men of Micheaux broadcast from their new YouTube-friendly studio just in time to share their selective opinions on Chris Rock’s Selective Outrage on Netflix. Listener mail has them reminiscing on long-lost Black comedies of the 70s-80s before Len names his Top 5 selections for Black Wonder Woman, and Vincent goes Six Degrees to Neve Campbell and Helena Bonham Carter. And, finally (45:40), Gina Prince-Bythewood’s THE WOMAN KING is here (starring Viola Davis, Lashana Lynch, and Thuso...

Co-producer Moe Poplar joins Len for an all TOP FIVE special that touches movies, music, and more: Black Movies that are not Black Movies; Black Supermen; Black singers who should direct; and the controversy of the Best Hip-Hop Group of All-Time. Check Moe Poplar's new podcast for the family --- Bunnamigos, an audio travel guide for kids. This fact-finding adventure podcast hops worldwide, exploring countries and cultures with children aged six to nine in mind. Rate & Review The Mission on...

Today, we're sharing a special treat: An episode from American Masters: Creative Spark featuring an interview with Oscar-winning costume designer Ruth E. Carter, known for her work on films including Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, and both Black Panther films. What does it mean to create futuristic costumes from the past? What would an African nation look like without the influence of colonialism? In “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” Ruth E. Carter answers these questions. This interview was...

The Men of Micheaux speak of A Warm December and their new podcast series, The Class of 1989, as well as Len’s Top 5 Black TV Couples, the career of Chevy Chase, the genius of Talladega Nights, and (00:49) Kenya Harris’ You People, starring Jonah Hill and Lauren London as strangers pretending to be lovers…badly. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple - Help us get to 200 reviews! Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, Twitter @micheauxmission Leave Voicemail for Vincent & Len...

We say goodbye to Trugoy of De La Soul, gone too soon at age 54, and answer our listener mail. Len outsources his Top 5 to lousy results, Six Degrees of D’Urville meets Taylor Kitsch and Vince Vaughn; (31:19) we review the quirky Jean of The Joneses from writer/director Stella Meghie and starring Taylor Paige, Sherri Shepherd, Gloria Reuben, and Michelle Hurst. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, Twitter @micheauxmission Leave...

Len sings the praises of select beignets from his New Orleans trip. Listener mail leads the Men to review Lynn Whitfield's many attributes. Top 5 Sci-Fi Romance Dramas take us to Six Degrees of D'Urville Martin to Rachel McAdams and Mickey Rourke. And then, at 53:31, we turn to Swan Song, a beautiful piece of speculative fiction ruminating on love and loss from writer/director Benjamin Cleary and featuring memorable performances from Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris. Rate & Review The...

Vincent cautions Len against sipping hard on a Hurricane in NOLA as the Men of Micheaux answer listener mail, go Top 5 and Six Degrees of great femme fatales, and (47:03) review Martin Lawrence's vanity project thriller, mugging it up on the screen beside Lynn Whitfield and Regina King. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple - Help us get to 200 reviews! Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, Twitter @micheauxmission Leave Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe to the Mission...

A thorough - and intense - review of episodes 5-6 of FX-Hulu's Kindred by the Men of the Micheaux Mission podcast, Vincent and Len, and their fellow Octavia Butler fans, Ariell and Charlyn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vincent and Len review (43:20) The Liberation of LB Jones (1970) starring Roscoe Lee Browne, Lola Falana, and Lee J Cobb; directed by 3-time Oscar winner William Wyler and 70s television action hero Lee Majors, whose career fills the top of the show and the back with the Men's thoughts on The Six Million Dollar Man and his 80s follow-up, The Fall Guy. Plus, TOP 5 Lola's and Six Degrees to Tasha Smith and Denis Leary sparks Amazing Spider-Man chatter. And, the Men react to the 2023 Academy...

The Men of Micheaux + Ariell and Charlyn review episodes 3 and 4 of FX-Hulu's Kindred, which both feature a lot of Kevin and not much of Dana. The kid gloves are off starting with this review, folks - buckle up! Rate & Review The Mission on Apple - Help us get to 200 reviews! 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...

Vincent and Len read listener mail which somehow takes Nia Long to her local Target. They give praise to the Black award winners at the recent Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, share their thoughts on HBO Max's Call Me Miss Cleo, list the Top 5 Black films affected by the Pandemic and Vincent goes Six Degrees from D'Urville to Mike Myers and Anne Hathaway. And the Men remember the hip-hop charity classic Self-Destruction. Then (58:27) they review the charming 2020 'love letter to...

The Men of The Micheaux Mission return with co-hosts Ariell Johnson and Charlyn Griffith-Oro to breakdown Ep #2 of KINDRED, the FX-Hulu 8-part adaptation of Octavia Butler's seminal afrofuturistic novel, the first of her works to hit the screen. They give the show a thorough review and then (45:30) compare it with the literary work. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission on IG, Twitter @micheauxmission Leave Voicemail for Vincent & Len Subscribe...

Vincent and Len jump into 2023 with a review of Peacock’s The Best Man: The Final Chapters, the Top 5 Upcoming Black Movies of 2023 + a couple of Denzel Washington-centric Top 5’s of his own, Six Degrees of D’Urville to Wood Harris and Aunjanue Ellis and a (1:03) full film review of 2011’s Restless City, directed by Andrew Dosunmu and starring Sy Alassane and Sky Nicole Grey. Rate & Review The Mission on Apple - Help us get to 200 reviews! Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The Mission...

The Men of Micheaux close out 2022 with a voicemail check-in on Len’s emotions and a fun look at the twins of The Whispers due to listener mail. Top 5 looks at the Un-Rankin & Bass Christmas Specials, while Six Degrees of Durville connects to Angela Lansbury and Ed Asner. Then (50:20) a review of Black Nativity that doesn’t disappoint. The film, however…. ____________________________ Rate & Review The Mission on Apple - Help us get to 200 reviews! Email micheauxmission@gmail.com Follow The...

The Men of The Micheaux Mission join Ariell Johnson and Charlyn Griffith-Oro to review and discuss Ep #1 of KINDRED, the FX-Hulu 8-part adaptation of Octavia Butler's seminal afrofuturistic novel, the first of her works to hit the screen. They give the show itself a thorough review and then compare it with the literary work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices