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Top Five (2014)
Episode 35
Comedian Chris Rock casts himself as a comic slash actor who has lost his way in the Hollywood machine through no fault but his own struggling to swi…
10 years ago
Purlie Victorious (1963)
Episode 34
The episode has listener email, Twitter commentary, several huge announcements, impromptu guest appearances from Tribbles with Red Capes and a critic…
10 years ago
Beyond The Lights (2014)
Episode 33
Writer-Director Gina Prince Bythewood has pulled exceptional star-making performances from two young leads - Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Nate Parker - whose …
10 years ago
The Monkey Hustle (1976)
Episode 32
Yaphet Kotto in a comedy. Talented young actors speaking a jive dialect unlike any spoken before. Rudy Ray Moore exists. The Monkey Hustle. What is T…
10 years, 1 month ago
Uptight (1968)
Episode 31
The streets of Cleveland in the wake of Martin Luther King's death are teeming with threats of militant violence and one man's disillusionment and pa…
10 years, 1 month ago
Clockers (1995) with Dorian Missick
Episode 30
The Men of the Mission sit down with actor DORIAN MISSICK (Animal Kingdom) to dig all into Spike Lee's CLOCKERS with name drops on Anthony Mackie, Me…
10 years, 1 month ago
The Brother From Another Planet (1984)
Episode 29
The 1980s may have been a renaissance for science fiction movies with Star Wars and its sequels, Star Trek and Buckaroo Banzai lighting the skies and…
10 years, 1 month ago
To Sleep With Anger (1990)
Episode 28
How do you transplant a good old fashion Southern Gothic onto the boiling streets of 1990s Los Angeles? Writer/director Charles Burnett makes it so i…
10 years, 1 month ago
Paradise In Harlem (1939)
Episode 27
Return with us to the 1930s, when the independent spirit of creativity shown itself in the 'race films' that played theaters in Negro parts of town a…
10 years, 2 months ago
The Black Klansman (1966)
Episode 26
From 1966 comes the story of black man portrayed by a white man playing a black man who pretends to be a white man so he can infiltrate the Ku Klux K…
10 years, 2 months ago