matt damon

Jeff’s Five and Dime is not your typical top-five list. Then again, what’s typical about Jeff? In this weekly column Jeff will bring you a top-five list meant to amuse and on the rare occasion, make you think.

Margaret gets a new moniker this week, as the Weekly Blend crew returns to discuss Alice in Wonderland, She's Out of My League, Green Zone, and more! We kick off our discussion of Artist of the Month Richard Dreyfuss, and explain in show references to Lindsay Lohan and Armond White. All of that, plus our take on Oscar highlights.

It used to be that, when our country went to war, the film industry would rally behind the war effort, creating movies that bordered on propaganda, supporting our troops and administration as the country went off to battle.

This week brings you everything you could possibly want in an episode of the Weekly Blend. We have new movie reviews of Invictus and The Princess and the Frog. We look at upcoming DVDs The Hangover and Inglorious Basterds. James Cameron month is continued with talk of Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Clint Eastwood’s recent films have been nothing short of brilliant and in his latest release, Invictus, the senescent filmmaker is able to drop a foreign living hero and a foreign sport in the laps of Americans so stimulatingly that even “my people*” will have hard time walking away without a lump in their throats.

We're back after a two week hiatus and we have lots of movies to review. Hear Jeff's comments on Capitalism: A Love Story, Rafe's reviews of Zombieland and The Invention of Lying, and Tim's take on the new television season, including The Family Guy and its spin-off, The Cleveland Show.

Hard to believe we've made it to 200 episodes. Join Rafe, Margaret, Sometimes Tim, Jeff, and the Podcast Dad, as well as a loaded chatroom as we offer reviews of Jennifer's Body, The Informant!, and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, then continue our discussion of Artist of the Month Matt Damon.

Our artist of the month for September is a bit of a departure for what I had planned this feature of the website to be. Instead of picking an actor or filmmaker with a solid filmography, with a fair amount of work that might be unfamiliar to the masses, we’re picking a relatively solid box office performer: Matt Damon.