Micheaux Mission

A listener introduces the Men of Micheaux to an amazing historical artifact from 1898 - A Negro's Kiss - that puts Black joy front and center for the world to see. Carrie, Salem's Lot, Cujo? What is the favorite Stephen King movie, and which one made Len change the way he walked home every day? Who's TV's Jodie Foster: Tatum O'Neal or Kristi McNichol? They talk about Rodney Allen Rippy, but they remember Gracie Allen. And Len and Vincent think all the fans of the Leprechaun series fell in love with THIS film.

Check out Something Good, Negro Kiss (1898)

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• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

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Due to technical difficulties, we present a Micheaux Mission Throwback to Bootober 2024, when Vincent and Len reviewed the college-bound ghost tale MASTER, starring Mission fave Regina Hall. Plus, the Men of Micheaux track down the last great Black comedy, debate historic figures worthy of a biopic AND a documentary, and it's the Top Five (remember that?) Bad Race Horror Flicks; #1 is a must-see.

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• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

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The Men of Micheaux give a mini-review of w/d Bassam Tariq's Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother, which stars Mahershala Ali flexing his Blade bona fides--literally. A listener makes her case for David Bowie earning at least a plate at the cookout. We resonate with select horror films, find out who Khris Davis is, and lament that we have to review the lamentable Leprechaun In The Hood.

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

••If you’d like to advertise with or sponsor us, please e-mail micheauxmission@gmail.com

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The world gets to see just how great Tony Award-winning actress Kara Young can be offstage as she steals the show from Sterling K. Brown and the best of Vivica Fox in writer-director Aleasha Harris’ audacious debut. Plus, we prepare for our new Patreon show by marking Flip Wilson’s place in variety show history. The NY Times lists the 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century, and Vincent HAS TO KNOW where Friday Night Lights landed. Lanterns sticks the landing, and Vincent discovers the origin of Doctor J and the real reason Rick Barry is (in)famous.

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

••If you’d like to advertise with or sponsor us, please e-mail micheauxmission@gmail.com

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Len and Vincent review the 2012 documentary that interrogates our relationship with food while providing closure for the director and his departed father. Vincent offers a sincere apology and a full recommendation for the reboot of A Different World, then takes us back to 1987 to discuss how different the world was at its start. The Men of Micheaux try to name the white celebrities that all of the diaspora effs with. And there are big changes coming to Patreon.

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

••If you’d like to advertise with or sponsor us, please e-mail micheauxmission@gmail.com

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In 1999, Jenifer Lewis finally received the showcase her immense talents deserved, and her league of legendary friends came out to play in a mockumentary that fumbled the ball at the goal line. What happened? Also, the Men of Micheaux discuss the history of the TV spinoff, days before the reboot of A Diff’rent World hits Netflix. Plus, Black Men United 2.0? The best of Jennifer Lopez and Jerry Lewis? Answers await.

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

••If you’d like to advertise with or sponsor us, please e-mail micheauxmission@gmail.com

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The Men of Micheaux got nothin’ but love for Paramount’s DIARRA FROM DETROIT, except for one casting sticking point. Then they share why VAN HELSING and SPEED RACER are secretly bad-good films. Vincent goes Six Degrees to Lauries London and Linney, and Len is moved by Lauren Hill’s evocative narration on CONCERNING VIOLENCE, a piercing documentary detailing Africa’s fight for decolonization in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.
• If you’d like to advertise with or sponsor us, please e-mail micheauxmission@gmail.com

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Vincent has unearthed a devilish 70s artifact featuring the late Sammy Davis Jr., who played a bumbling demon opposite Jack Klugman’s Poor Devil. Our review last week of The Jackie Shane Story elicited touching responses from the Missionaries and sparked Len’s search for the Black actor who holds their own space just as confidently among their peers. Hello, Bokeem Woodbine! The Men of Micheaux ponder who will be the next John Stewart, play the hits going Six Degrees to jazz greats Dexter Gordon and Ella Fitzgerald, and marvel at the eclectic genius of Thelonious Monk.

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.
• If you’d like to advertise with or sponsor us, please e-mail micheauxmission@gmail.com

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The Men of Micheaux remember the stellar (petrifying) work of the late Tim Curry, including his greatest what-if. With its third episode, HBO Max and DC Studios’ Lanterns brings the Blackest Night to light on TV since Watchmen (no coincidence). Len sends Vincent Six Degrees toward Elliot Page and Suzy Eddie Izzard. Then we join the world in the delightful discovery of 2016, the transgressive, transformative, fully realized Jackie Shane in all her 50s-60s glory, in the Canadian documentary Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story.

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

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Vincent and Len share their heartfelt condolences and remembrances of Dolly Parton and actor Michael Wright, the immortal Eddie King of The Five Heartbeats. A discussion of Dolly’s Rhineheart devolves into a stupid vs. stupid match between Stallone’s Cliffhanger and Cobra. Then the legacy of The Wire is determined by the cinéma vérité of director Charles Stone III’s Paid In Full.

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

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The Men of Micheaux kick off their next 500 episodes by debating which actors did the most with the least in 21st-century silent-ish films, as well as the colorism in the X-Men's casting of Maya Boyd. Classic Hollywood-era star Joseph Cotten was Black; that's what she said. Vincent learns who Ben Foster and Ben Mendelsohn are and how they connect to D'urville Martin before we figure out All About The Benjamins.

Read DID YOU KNOW THAT DWIGHT EISENHOWER AND SOME OTHER FAMOUS PEOPLE WERE BLACK?

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

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Vincent and Len commemorate the 500th stop on the Mission by looking at some TV shows and comic book series that also reached this milestone. Missives from the Missionaries has the Men of Micheaux debating the quality of the Power cinematic universe. Then they unearth Disney’s buried Song Of The South to review the movie, its legacy, and its controversies, including how it stacks up against the equally heralded, yet widely acclaimed Gone With The Wind.

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.
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The Men of Micheaux return to the films of Oscar Micheaux for a rediscovered remake of one of his lost silent films, which fuels the imagination and prompts a full reconsideration of the man, his movies, and his myth. Plus, they love Back to the Future and Michael J. Fox. Or maybe they love Tom Holland and Zendaya even more. It’s certainly not 80s-80s Hip-Hop, though it gets plenty of love sprinkled on it in this episode, just the same.

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.
• If you’d like to advertise with or sponsor us, please e-mail micheauxmission@gmail.com

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The Men of Micheaux got nothing but love for the newest Spider-Man romp, which they call the best Spidey and Tom Holland of them all. The love continues to flow as they trace our connection with Kung-Fu flicks, which takes them to SDCC news about Black Panther 3 in 2028. Then Len and Vincent disagree (again) on whether or not TWO CAN PLAY THAT GAME (2001).

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

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Vincent and Len continue their march toward 500 episodes of The Mission as they stack themselves up against iconic duos such as Tango & Cash, Murtaugh & Riggs, and Mario & Luigi. But who's Batman? Then, they remember the late Hal Williams of Sanford and Son and 227 fame. They offer laments to Marvel as their Avengers Doomsday trailer drops in the wake of The Odyssey. Finally, the Men of Micheaux sit with 2001's The Brothers to see how the many stars of the film relate to one another.

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

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The Men of Micheaux inch closer to their 500th episode as they gather to review the 2003 entry in the vroom-vroom genre. They also offer mini-reviews of Apple TV’s Widow’s Bay and the summer film they’ve been waiting centuries for, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

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The Men of Micheaux welcome Regine Sawyer of Lockett Down Productions and Women In Comics NYC to share her comic book origin story, her unusual path to THE Storm, her new role as an Eisner Award judge, and her recommendations for new comic books for Missionaries, young and old. Then we give mini-reviews of Boots Riley's latest surreal sci-fi trip and Warner Bros' summer bomb.

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

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Vincent is amazed by the box-office legs of I Love Boosters, the latest surreal treat from writer-director Boots Riley. The Men of Micheaux debate the biggest flop in the filmographies of Spike Lee, Malcom D. Lee, Barry Jenkins, Antoine Fuqua, and Tyler Perry. In 1987, The Fat Boys vied for the title of "the Next Three Stooges" but failed to deliver the patented eye poke.

BADDD SONIA SANCHEZ @ Bryn Mawr Film Institute | The Be Reel Micheaux Screening Series

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

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The Men of Micheaux expand on their previous mini-reviews to share their full thoughts on the biggest music biopic of all time. They honor the passing of music impresario "mafioso?" Clive Davis and stack his 'degrees' against those of the equally legendary Quincy Jones. They also stack the filmographies of the Wayans Family and the Tyler Perry Cinematic Universe side by side. The music of John Coltrane and The Chipmunks inspires the Men in special ways, and Vincent goes Six Degrees to a couple of other Michaels in film.

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

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Vincent and Len ponder the success rate of legacy reboots such as Bad Boys, What’s Happening Now, and King of the Hill. They share a brief glimpse into What They’ve Been Watching and go Six Degrees to 50 Cent and Aaliyah. Then, the Men of Micheaux settle in for separate views on writer-director Melvin Van Peeples’ Don’t Play Us Cheap, which begs the question - WTF?

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Credits:

• Len Webb produces and edits the show. Vincent Williams is the co-producer, and Moe Poplar is our associate producer.
• Our theme music is by Alexa Gold.

••If you’d like to advertise with or sponsor us, please e-mail micheauxmission@gmail.com

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