Jarrod and Jordan discuss Matt Damon in the massively successful, franchise-starting thriller The Bourne Identity. Damon is pitch perfect in this nervy action movie, turning in a physical performance unlike anything he had done in his career prior to this.

On this week's Who's Our Lead?? Jarrod and Jordan discuss Kevin Smith's Dogma, which marks the end of Matt Damon's significant involvement in a certain type of independent filmmaking. He still has more movies to make, but it seems unlikely that we'll ever see Damon in a movie that features a poop demon ever again, for better or for worse (it's for better).

Jarrod and Jordan discuss Matt Damon in Steven Spielberg's 1998 massively culturally significant WWII film Saving Private Ryan. Matt Damon plays the titular role and, despite not showing up from 2/3 of the movie's runtime, plays a massive part in the moral and emotional complexities this movie is sifting through. 

Jarrod and Jordan discuss Good Will Hunting,  a film that must be discussed when talking about Matt Damon. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Damon and Ben Affleck, Good Will Hunting was smash success at the box office and the Oscars and stands as an enduring movie of the 1990s. Though Damon had starring roles before this, most notably in The Rainmaker, this movie serves as the beginning of Matt Damon's rise to be a person you and your parents have heard of in movies.

The first episode of the new podcast Who's Our Lead?? where we talk about people you've seen in movies. The first mini-series of Who's Our Lead?? is a survey of the career of Matt Damon and in this episode we draft the movies that we'll watch and discuss. 

Paul Schrader makes his masterpiece about the most Schraderian figure in history, Yukio Mishima.  

Jarrod and Jordan discuss the first film ever directed by Paul Schrader that he did not also write, 1982's Cat People. This detachment shows a bit in the final product, but if you think that means this episode short guess again, loser. 

Jarrod and Jordan welcome back a familiar face from the Paul Schrader extended universe, Martin Scorsese, as they discuss the colossal 1980 film, Raging Bull. Schrader's involvement in this film may have been smaller than it was the last time he and Scorsese brought a miserable shell of a man to our screens, but his presence is felt in the final product, a movie that makes boxing look more elegant and more brutal than its ever looked before. 

Jarrod and Jordan slam the door on the 1970s and enter the 1980s with Paul Schrader's American Gigolo. 

On this week's Intrinsically Profane, Jarrod and Jordan have the rare opportunity to discuss a Paul Schrader-penned film that we have no idea how he feels about, as he's never commented 1979's Old Boyfriends. No wayward Facebook posts; no asides published in Variety. Nothing.

Astutely re-worked and directed by Joan Tewkesbury--unfortunately the only film she would direct--and featuring a great lead performance from Talia Shire, we dare say this is an under-discussed and under-valued part of both Schrader's career and Hollywood history in general. Enjoy as we go long on it here--after doing a cool 30 minutes on M. Night Shyamalan's latest film Trap, of course.