Mooz- Lum: Goodwill Graveyard Volume 6

Mooz-lum (2010, Image Entertainment) Starring Evan Ross, Nia Long, and Danny Glover. The Goodwill Graveyard takes a slightly different turn today because honestly… I don’t even know if this movie is BAD. 😂 I’m fully admitting right now that I am clowning something I haven’t actually watched yet. But when I saw this DVD sitting there on the shelf looking abandoned by civilization itself, I had questions. MANY questions. First off: that TITLE. “Mooz-lum.” Bruh. 😂 I get what they were TRYING to do. It feels like one of those early 2000s indie-film naming conventions where somebody thought: “What if we spell something phonetically to make it feel edgy and street-level?” Kind of like how Hi-Sa-Society intentionally played with language and spelling for style. But “Mooz-lum” immediately makes me raise an eyebrow because it feels simultaneously self-serious AND weirdly cute at the same time. Like the movie can’t decide if it wants to be a gritty identity drama or spoken-word poetry night at a coffee shop. 😂 Now to be fair, the CAST actually got my attention. Evan Ross — yes, the son of Diana Ross — is front and center here trying to establish himself as a dramatic lead. Nia Long gets a chance to stretch outside of the roles Hollywood usually boxed her into for years. And then you got OG legend Danny Glover showing up, which usually means somebody somewhere was at least TRYING to make a real movie and not just direct-to-DVD nonsense. And the premise itself? A young Muslim man struggling with identity, religion, family pressure, and post-9/11 American culture? That honestly sounds like there COULD be a real thoughtful indie drama buried in here somewhere. The type of film that film-school people quietly champion while everybody else missed it. But apparently… almost nobody saw it. Wikipedia says this thing had about a $1.2 million budget and only made around $369K back. OOF. That means even by indie standards this movie basically vanished into the void. That’s not “modest success.” That’s “the DVD is currently sitting next to old Tae-Bo tapes at Goodwill” territory. 😂 Which honestly makes me MORE curious. Because sometimes movies like this are secretly interesting failures. The kind where the execution may not fully work, but you can FEEL ambition behind it. And sometimes indie films that disappear aren’t terrible… they just never found an audience or didn’t have the marketing machine behind them. So should I give Mooz-lum a shot eventually? Honestly… maybe. I’m not promising greatness here. The title alone still sounds like somebody trying WAY too hard to be clever at a slam poetry event in 2009. 😂 But unlike some entries in The Goodwill Graveyard, this one at least has enough interesting pieces attached to it that I’m mildly curious instead of immediately running for the exit. That alone might make it one of the most intriguing movies we’ve found in the graveyard so far. COMIC POWER - BLACK NERD HEAVEN #comicpower #blacknerdheaven #goodwillgraveyard #moozlum #evanross #nialong #dannyglover #indiefilm #blackcinema #dvdcollection #moviecommentary #cultfilms