The Madcap Movie Review

The Madcap Movie Review

If you are looking for a deep political or psychological dive of a film, this ain’t it... But if you are looking for uncensored commentary with a dash of little known facts about your favorite movies, The Madcap Review is the film review podcast for you! Join hosts CL, Derek, and Shawn for this weekly podcast as they dig into the plots of recently watched movies. Good times and laughs are promised as your hosts break down the good, the bad and the terrible! P.S. We will spoil the hell out of a new movie, this is your first warning!! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/madcappod/support

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May 18, 2021 66 mins

This week on the Podcast CL and Shawn reunite like Benson and Stabler to give you a rundown of some of the latest movies and TV to hit streaming. We look into the latest HBO Max offerings. First up is the new Mortal Kombat remake. While Shawn openly admits being a fan of the video game, he had not seen any of the previous iterations deeming this was only worth his time by trailer alone. Was he wrong? Well... 

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As promised, the Madcap Crew finally chopped it up on Derek's favorite movie, 1989's Harlem Nights!

In the waning days of Prohibition, Sugar Ray (Richard Pryor) and his adopted son, Quick (Eddie Murphy), run a speakeasy called Club Sugar Ray. When gangster Bugsy Calhoune (Michael Lerner) learns that Sugar Ray's place is pulling in more money than his own establishment, the Pitty Pat Club, he pays corrupt cop Phil Cantone (Danny Aie...

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March 12, 2021 48 mins

The moment the Madcap Crew has been waiting on since we started the podcast is here! This week, we are reviewing the highly anticipated, Coming 2 America, the sequel to the first movie inducted into the Madcap Hall of Fame, Coming to America.

Needing a male heir to the throne, Prince Azeem returns to Queens, N.Y., to find his long-lost son and bring him back to Zamunda.

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March 3, 2021 50 mins

The highly anticipated film, Coming 2 America, will be released on March 5, available on Amazon Prime Video. Prior to its release, the Madcap Crew revisits the original film, Coming to America (Episode 2). Featuring all-new commentary, scenes, and music that you didn't hear during our first episode of the film. Coming to America was the first film to receive all Image Awards from the crew, making it the first film inducted into the...

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February 25, 2021 43 mins

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panther Party per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Party Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, a battle wages for O'Neal's soul. Judas and the Black Messiah was directed by Shaka King and stars Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, and Dominique Fishback.

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February 18, 2021 55 mins

The Little Things is a 2021 crime thriller film written and directed by John Lee Hancock and starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto. Set in 1990 Los Angeles, the movie follows two detectives who investigate a string of murders, which lead them to a strange loner who may be the culprit.

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February 11, 2021 56 mins

This week on the Madcap Movie Review, we chop it up on 2020's One Night in Miami. One Night in Miami is the feature film directorial debut of Regina King (2021 Golden Globe Best Director Nominee) and stars and stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as Malcolm X, Eli Goree as Cassius Clay, Aldis Hodge as Jim Brown, and Leslie Odom Jr as Sam Cooke. This movie is based on the one-room play "One Night In Miami..." by the screenwriter of this movie, K...

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It's been too long... The Madcap Crew is back with a special preview of what's to come for part two of our first season. Up first next week, 2020's One Night in Miami. 

Be on the lookout for new bonus content coming to the feed!

  • NoCap Classics
  • MadCap Reacts
  • MadCap TV

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January 4, 2021 53 mins
The Madcap Crew will return soon with Part 2 of our first season. Until then, let's throw it back and relive some of our best moments from the first six reviews! Subscribe, rate and review! Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-madcap-review/id1529062717?uo=4 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/38VJgh6RCx8WBGVozY4KoR Listen on iHeartRadio! https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-the-madcap-movie-review-...
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December 10, 2020 80 mins
On this special Christmas episode of the Madcap Movie Review Podcast, we joined by hosts from Living Single with Friends, Millennial Happy Hour, A PITCHER Is Worth 1000 Words, Pure Phuckery, Soulful Thoughts, Stay Up, and We Posted Up podcasts as we each chop it up on our favorite Christmas movies and share why these movies mean so much to us! Follow these great podcasts at: Living Single with Friends @livingsinglewithfriends Mille...
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November 19, 2020 48 mins
This week, the Mapcap Crew are joined by Wally Hipolito (@wallyhipolito) of the Off the Stoop Podcast to chop it up about 199'7's Money Talks, starring Chris Tucker in his first headlining role. Directed by Brett Ratner, the film co-stars Charlie Sheen, Heather Locklear, Gerard Ismael, Elise Neal, Michael Wright, Paul Gleason, and Paul Sorvino. Reporter James (Charlie Sheen) brings petty crook Franklin (Chris  Tucker) to justice, b...
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November 12, 2020 53 mins
A giant egg is unearthed at a construction site and soon opened, releasing the terrible Ivan Ooze, who wreaks vengeance on Zordon for imprisoning him millennia ago. With Zordon dying and their powers lost, the Rangers head to a distant planet to find the mystic warrior Dulcea. Listen on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-madcap-review/id1529062717?uo=4 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/38VJgh6RCx8WBGVoz...
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November 5, 2020 50 mins
The Madcap Crew wraps up its horror series with Derek's pick, 1990's Def by Temptation; an interesting film (the nicest way to put it) written, produced, and directed by James Bond III, starring Bond, Kadeem Hardison, Bill Nunn, Samuel L. Jackson, and Cynthia Bond as, "the Temptress." Joel (James Bond III), a quiet divinity student from North Carolina, starts to question his faith. So he heads to New York to visit his  friend K (Ka...
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October 29, 2020 42 mins
The Madcap Crew is back for Week 2 of their horror movie review series. Up next is CL's pick, 1992's Candyman written and directed by Bernard Rose and starring Virginia Madsen, Vanessa Williams, and Tony Todd as, "the Candyman." Skeptical graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) befriends Anne-Marie McCoy (Vanessa Williams) while researching superstitions in a housing project on Chicago's Near North Side. From Anne-Marie, Hele...
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October 22, 2020 46 mins
For the next three weeks, each host of the Madcap Movie Review Podcast will select a horror movie for the Crew to review. Up first, is Shawn's pick, 1988's Child's Play. The original horror classic was directed by Tom Holland, not Spider-Man, people… and starred Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent as Andy and Brad Dourif as Charles Lee Ray and Chucky. Gunned down by Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon), dying murderer C...
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CL, Derek and Shawn kick it in 1996 for another week to visit the parody cult classic, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. Don't Be a Menace was directed by twenty-two time Emmy award winning television director and producer Paris Barclay in his feature film directorial debut, and produced by comedy legend Keenen Ivory Wayans. The film was written by Shawn and Marlon Wayans, who also star in th...
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October 8, 2020 63 mins
This week, the Madcap crew drops into 1996 and reviews director F. Gary Gray's second feature film, Set if Off, starring Vivica A. Fox, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett and featuring our introduction to Kimberly Elise. After being fired from her job as a bank teller, Frankie (Vivica A. Fox) begins working at a janitorial service with her friends Tisean (Kimberly Elise), a single mother; Cleo (Queen Latifah), a boisterous lesbian; and St...
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October 1, 2020 64 mins
The Madcap Crew is back to chop it up on 1993's Jurassic Park. All things considered, that may not have been the best way to say that! Will this summer classic join Coming to America and New Jack City in the Madcap Hall of Fame or do we have dissension in the ranks for the first time? In Steven Spielberg's summer blockbuster, paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff G...
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September 24, 2020 110 mins
Still grieving after the murder of her boyfriend, hairdresser Justice (Janet Jackson) writes poetry to deal with the pain of her loss. Unable to get to Oakland to attend a convention because of her broken-down car, Justice gets a lift with her friend, Iesha (Regina King) and Iesha's postal worker boyfriend, Chicago (Joe Torry). Along for the ride is Chicago's co-worker, Lucky (Tupac Shakur), to whom Justice grows close after some i...
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September 17, 2020 85 mins
Drug tycoon Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) and his minions, known collectively as the Cash Money Brothers, have rapidly risen to the top of the New York City narcotics trade. Under Nino's heartless leadership, the drug operation has grown into a multi million-dollar empire. Scotty (Ice-T) and Nick (Judd Nelson), two police officers who know their way around the streets of Harlem, aim to bring Nino and his cohorts down. To do so, though...
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