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. We're making video versions of our reviews! Be sure to follow us on the following platforms: YouTube Tiktok Instagram Threads Please find us on PATREON patreon.com/micheauxmission Thank you for your support! Proud member of the BLEAV Podcast Network | Every Sport, Every Topic, Everywhere. www.bleav.com You can always email us at [email protected] 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 [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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. We're making video versions of our reviews! Be sure to follow us on the following platforms: YouTube Tiktok Instagram Threads Please find us on PATREON patreon.com/micheauxmission Thank you for your support! Proud member of the BLEAV Podcast Network | Every Sport, Every Topic, Everywhere. www.bleav.com  You can always email us at [email protected]   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 [email protected]  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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. We're making video versions of our reviews! Be sure to follow us on the following platforms: YouTube Tiktok Instagram Threads Please find us on PATREON patreon.com/micheauxmission Thank you for your support! Proud member of the BLEAV Podcast Network | Every Sport, Every Topic, Everywhere. www.bleav.com  You can always email us at [email protected]   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 [email protected]  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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. We're making video versions of our reviews! Be sure to follow us on the following platforms: YouTube Tiktok Instagram Threads Please find us on PATREON patreon.com/micheauxmission Thank you for your support! Proud member of the BLEAV Podcast Network | Every Sport, Every Topic, Everywhere. www.bleav.com  You can always email us at [email protected]   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 [email protected]  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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?  We're making video versions of our reviews! Be sure to follow us on the following platforms: YouTube Tiktok Instagram Threads   Please find us on PATREON patreon.com/micheauxmission Thank you for your support! Proud member of the BLEAV Podcast Network | Every Sport, Every Topic, Everywhere. www.bleav.com  You can always email us at [email protected]     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 [email protected]  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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. We're making video versions of our reviews! Be sure to follow us on the following platforms: YouTube Tiktok Instagram Threads   Please find us on PATREON patreon.com/micheauxmission Thank you for your support! Proud member of the BLEAV Podcast Network | Every Sport, Every Topic, Everywhere. www.bleav.com  You can always email us at [email protected]     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 [email protected]  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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.   We're making video versions of our reviews! Be sure to follow us on the following platforms: YouTube Tiktok Instagram Threads   Please find us on PATREON patreon.com/micheauxmission Thank you for your support! Proud member of the BLEAV Podcast Network | Every Sport, Every Topic, Everywhere. www.bleav.com You can always email us at [email protected]   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 [email protected] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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).   We're making video versions of our reviews! Be sure to follow us on the following platforms: YouTube Tiktok Instagram Threads   Please find us on PATREON patreon.com/micheauxmission Thank you for your support! Proud member of the BLEAV Podcast Network | Every Sport, Every Topic, Everywhere. www.bleav.com  You can always email us at [email protected]     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 [email protected]  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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. We're making video versions of our reviews! Be sure to follow us on the following platforms: YouTube Tiktok Instagram Threads   Please find us on PATREON patreon.com/micheauxmission Thank you for your support! Proud member of the BLEAV Podcast Network | Every Sport, Every Topic, Everywhere. www.bleav.com  You can always email us at [email protected]     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 [email protected]  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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. We're making video versions of our reviews! Be sure to follow us on the following platforms: YouTube Tiktok Instagram Threads   Please find us on PATREON patreon.com/micheauxmission Thank you for your support! Proud member of the BLEAV Podcast Network | Every Sport, Every Topic, Everywhere. www.bleav.com  You can always email us at [email protected]     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 [email protected]  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.