The First Run

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt discuss the post-rapture horror film, ‘Azrael’, featuring current scream queen Samara Weaving.  Does the mostly dialogue-less film deliver the scares and dread? Or does it feel like a gimmick?  And is that Esperanto I hear…?  There’s the death-defying rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Streaming and Viper Video Pic...

This week on the First Run, Chris and Matt check out the final installment of Sony's Venom series, ‘Venom: The Last Dance’. Does the series go out with a bang or a whimper? You can probably guess but the guys will give you the final word on how it is. As always, Chris will bring the big releases on physical media, the Viper Video and streaming picks of the week. Finally, Matt and Chris w...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt dial up the carnage and suffering. First up, director Parker Finn takes over the reins for the solid ‘Smile’ film sequel with ‘Smile 2: Still Smilin‘’. Who’s our smile demon going to possess this time? And why is it never someone with a jacked up grill?  After that, it’s the grin-inducing rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the S...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt adjust the tracking on their VCRs to no avail with the latest in the V/H/S series, ‘V/H/S Beyond’.  Then, they’ll give you the rundown of the Big Releases on Physical Media, featuring the Viper Video and Streaming Picks of the Week. Finally, Matt and Chris will wrap up the show with their all killer, no filler list of their 5 favorite Horror Antholog...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt find themselves back in early 80’s Gotham with the return of ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’.  The first film received a less than stellar reaction from your erstwhile hosts.  Can Todd Phillips’ latest musical super-hero film win them over?  Then there’s the maniacal rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Streaming and Viper Vid...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt go big, some would even say mega. Big stars, big performance choices, big run times with Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. We’ll give you the big releases on physical media, the viper video and streaming picks of the week. Then we wrap it up with our Top 5 Four film directorial runs.  00:00-21:45: Intro/Megalopolis 21:46-32:15: Physical Media Picks...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt find themselves the closest mirror and take a long look at themselves aging… just getting so old… and discuss Coralie Fargeat’s ‘The Substance’.  Demi Moore returns with a power house performance in possibly the most divisive horror films of the year.   There’s the life-splitting rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Strea...

This week on The First Run, Matt and Chris make some new friends and go on a quiet retreat in the country with ‘Speak No Evil’.  Surely, nothing bad will happen at all.  Then they catch up with the latest from First Run Favorite Jeremy Saulnier for a bit of the ultra-violence (?) with ‘Rebel Ridge’.  As always, they give you the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Viper Vi...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt discuss the return of that madcap demon, Beetlejuice in ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’. Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara and Tim Burton return, this time with Jenna Ortega (queen of the requel) to tell bring us up to date on the Deetz family as they are tormented by Beetlejuice one more time.  There’s the undead rundown of the big releases on Physical Media...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt catch up with the latest film about the dangers of AI, the boogeyman du jour, with Blumhouse's, ‘AfrAId’. Then it’s on to the latest from John Woo, who remakes his own classic of the genre, for some reason, with ‘The Killer’. As always there is the rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Streaming and Viper Video Picks of the Week.&nb...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt bring back the double-feature just for you!  Specifically you [enter name here]. First up it’s the reboot of the middlingly popular Crow franchise with, ‘The Crow’.  One of the Skarsgård kids plays Eric Draven with pop music star FKA Twigs as Shelly.  Director of the original film, Alex Proyas is having a blast with the film’s poor reviews....

This week, it’s a team-up with ScreenRun and The First Run as The Lady Wan, Chris Scalzo, and Matt Howell suit up and shoot into space one more time for the latest in the Alien franchise, ‘Alien: Romulus’.  Fede Alvarez of ‘Evil Dead’ and ‘Don’t Breathe’ directs the latest foray into deep space terror as a group of desperate people try to scavenge a derelict space station for space parts that...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt dive headfirst into the cinematic wonderland of the latest releases—so you don’t have to! This week, they’re cracking open the latest in arthouse horror from Neon, ‘Cuckoo’!  Is ‘Cuckoo’   a mind-bending masterpiece or just a confusing cluck-fest? Are they the crazy ones for watching it—or are you for listening to them chirp about it?...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt return to Pennsylvania and the M Knight Shyamalan universe with ‘Trap’. The Hartnett resurgence continues, but is the film with walking into? a trap. Get it? There’s the diabolical rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Streaming and Viper Video Picks of the Week. Then Matt and Chris close out the show by playing the annual RT Score...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt take one last spin around the block with the Fox Marvel Films, an inconsistent friend that delighted and hurt is in equal measure. Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman show you what true besties look like with Deadpool and Wolverine. They give you the big releases on physical media, the Viper Video and Streaming Picks of the Week then wrap it all up with a...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt batten down the hatches and prepare for the worst. It’s ’Twisters’ week, featuring ‘Twisters’! This time, it’s Glen Powell and a potentially catatonic Daisy Edgar Jones chasing them tornadoes.  Does this retooling of a beloved 90’s disaster film spin is all up with excitement? There’s the pressure-dropping rundown of the big releases on Physical Medi...

This week on The First Run, it's time for another wide theatrical Nic Cage release! Chris and Matt catch up with the man's latest unhinged performance with Oz Perkins’ ‘Longlegs’.  Promoted as the scariest movie of the decade, but what about just 100 minutes of smothering dread? Then there’s the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Viper Video and Streaming Picks of the Week. Matt an...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt play the shortest game of 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon ever with a discussion of Ti West’s trilogy capper, ‘MaXXXine’.  Mia Goth returns to wreak havoc in 1980’s LA in her pursuit of stardom, regardless of you gets in her way.  Then it’s the neon-drenched review of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Streaming and Viper Video Picks of...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt catch up with the latest from Yorgos Lanthimos, the hardest working man in show business, with the unexpected anthology film, ‘Kinds Of Kindness’. There’s the love-struck break down of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Viper Video and Streaming Picks of the Week. Then Matt and Chris wrap it all up with their 5 Favorite Films of 2024...so f...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt discuss the high octane action thriller you never saw coming with ‘Thelma’.  June Squibb finally lands the top of the call sheet at the tender age of 94.  Think of it as Hot Fuzz for The Villages.  Then there’s the non-stop thrill ride that is the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Steaming and Viper Video Picks of the Week!&nbsp...

This week on The First Run, Matt and Chris get in touch with their feelings with the latest from Pixar with, ‘Inside Out 2’. As always, there’s the joy-inducing rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Viper Video and Streaming Picks of the Week.  Then Matt and Chris wrap it up the big show with their Top 5 Family Films. Will Chris squeeze in ‘Something Wicked This Wa...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt have just had enough of each other. And funnily enough, both decide to engage with Richard Linklater’s ‘Hitman’, featuring up and coming (and just leaning over the Tatumline) leading man, Glen Powell. Chris shares his thoughts, and fears, regarding the debut feature by Ishana Night Shymalan with, ‘The Watchers’.  Then it’s on to the big releases on P...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt do their best menacing slow walk as they check out ‘In A Violent Nature’, the latest horror film to flip the horror script by asking "What if we just follow the bad guy?" They give you the big releases on physical media, the Viper Video and Streaming Picks of the Week. Then Matt and Chris wrap it up by trying on different personalities and answering some...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt rev their engines and prep for another beautiful day with the Mad Max Fury Road prequel, ‘Furiosa’.  It’s a dive into the back story of Fury Road’s ultimate bad ass, with an actor swap out from Charlize Theron to Anya Taylor-Joy. So is this entry also all shiny and chrome?  Then the guys bear witness to the big releases on Physical Media, featur...

This week on The First Run, Matt and Chris dip their toes into the nostalgia pool and let the capital M Metaphor wash over them with the latest from A24, ‘I Saw the TV Glow’. As always they give a run down of the big releases on physical media, the Viper Video and Streaming Picks of the Week. Then the wrap up it all give you a glimpse into what gives them the warm and fuzzies with their Top 5...