The First Run

We’re early! Happy Thanksgiving!  This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt fire up the oven, mash the potatoes, un-can the cranberries, and whatever else has to be done to prepare for Eli Roth’s ‘Thanksgiving’. How does the latest expansion of the Grindhouse trailers hold up?  Then it’s the latest (and greatest?) film in the MCU, this time it’s ‘The Marvels’!  Captain Marvel, Capt...

This week on the First Run, Chris and Matt discuss David Fincher’s latest cinematic tryst with Netflix as he returns to his roots with his latest, ‘The Killer. Then Matt gives into Chris and checks out ‘Bottoms’, which attempts to answer the question “Can movie teenage lesbians be creepy hornballs too?” They’re sure you’ll be shocked by the answer. They run down the big Physical Media releases of...

This week on The First Run, it’s people falling out of buildings to their doom week on the big show. First up, Chris and Matt discuss this year’s Palm d’Or winner, ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’, a court room drama that is praised for its standout performance by Sandra Hüller as a woman accused of killing her husband. Did she? Didn’t she? Does it matter? Then Chris gets his Poirot itch scratched as Branagh r...

This week on The First Run, your ancient hosts, Chris and Matt, attempt connect with their inner Zoomer child and answer the question “What if Chuck E. Cheese was a homicidal maniac?” when they check out ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’. Then the guys fill the gaping raunchy sex comedy hole in their lives with Jennifer Lawrence and ‘No Hard Feelings’. As always there’s the stuffed crust pizza level of aw...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt buckle in for Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’. Do you enjoy sprawling epics revealing truths about our country’s past, and perhaps ourselves? Or are you complaining about its three and half hour run time? Do you consider Scorsese’s films like going to the DMV? Are you a jerk? Do you wonder if you’re a jerk? By the end of the show, you’ll kn...

This week on The First Run, dem bois resist the siren song of our future pop overlord and her brainwashed horde by skipping the theater this week. That’s right…Chris and Matt stayed home…and it was glorious. The guys keep spooky season rolling with the latest installment from the V/H/S found footage horror anthology with Shudder’s ‘V/H/S/85’. Then they take a hard right turn into a completely diff...

This week on The First Run, William Friedkin spins so hard in his grave that he’s able to power the entire eastern seaboard as Chris and Matt discuss David Gordon Green’s latest horror hijacking with ‘The Exorcist: Believer’. Does the legacy sequel possess us all once again with fear and dread? And is that fear and dread more about having to watch the next 2 films in this planned trilogy?  Th...

This week on the First Run, Chris and Matt face one of the great questions of our time…why is sci-fi usually such a bummer? Who knows but they get served up another heaping helping of it via Gareth Edward’s with The Creator. Then, because Chris likes to push Matt ever closer to the edge, the guys burn away another couple hours of their lives with Saw X. Matt refuses to call it Saw 10. They give yo...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt take on a couple of horrific nightmares and cut a rug. First out of the gate is an Indian demon tormenting your soul so it’s nice and ripe for consumption in, ‘It Lives Inside’. Then Hulu brings us the gray alien monsters we’ve been waiting for, maybe, with, ‘No One Will Save You’. But it doesn’t end there, oh no! Matt and Chris react to the IMAX 4k Remas...

This week on the First Run, the Chris and Matt call an audible and abandon Agatha Christie for Michael Jai White in ‘The Outlaw Johnny Black’. When one of the most anticipated films of a podcast host becomes an option to cover on said podcast, one takes the opportunity. Then the show slips on down to Chile, eats some hearts, and dusts just a nudge of Wes Anderson whimsy and twee onto the vampire g...

On this episode of The First Run, it’s sequel week! First out of the gate, The Conjuring expanded universe continues with, ‘The Nun II’. Taissa Farmiga returns as the nun on a mission to bring justice to church, exposing its greed, abuses, and hypocrisy…No, that’s not right.  Valak the demon returns. Not to be confused with Valek, the Vampire. Taissa is dispatched to end the horrors once agai...

This week on the First Run, your favorite movie bros try to answer the eternal question…”Can Antoine Fuqua make a worthwhile film?” The latest attempt brings Denzel Washington up to bat yet again with ‘The Equalizer 3’. Then Chris and Matt slum it on Netflix with the sci-fi satire ‘They Cloned Tyrone’. There’s the subtly awesome rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Straight...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt finally catch up with Ari Aster’s ‘Beau Is Afraid’.  It’s a sprawling tale of one man’s journey to visit his mother, with all the accompanying insanity, violence, humor, and just a dusting of an Elektra Complex, all led my Joaquin Phoenix. Clocking in at a meager 3 hours, is it the (Insert genre here) we’ve been waiting for? Or a bloated mess? Then a...

This week on The First Run, Matt and Chris bear witness to the last desperate gasps before the death rattle of the DCEU with ‘Blue Beetle’. Is this the definitive entry of the DCEU, the yardstick in which all the other entries are measured against? Maybe, maybe not, who gives a shit at this point. As always, they run down the big releases on physical media, give you their straight to dvd and strea...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt engage with the hypothesis that asks, can you make a whole movie out of one chapter of a book? It’s a moment in time for the lord of the undead. Ahoy their matey’s! We gots us a Dracula! It’s ‘The Last Voyage Of The Demeter’! Then there’s another animated movie based on a beloved property. This time it’s the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’!&...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt, your curmudgeonly internet uncles, head down under for this year’s scariest movie of all time, ‘Talk To Me’. Should you believe the hype? Does A24 deliver another knock out film? The boys give you their oh-so informed opinions. Then it’s the terrifying, yet adorable run down the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Streaming and Straight to DVD...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt succumb to the matriarchy and all things capitalism to discuss ‘Barbie’! Greta Gerwig’s big screen anti-man, pro-communism screed is here and is tearing up the charts! Could a movie about a girls’ toy actually be good? And have a little something for the fellas? There’s the pink-alicious rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Streami...

This week on the First Run, Chris and Matt become Death, the destroyer of (cinematic) worlds with the latest 3 hour spectacle from Christopher Nolan, ‘Oppenheimer’. Matt, for one, is looking forward to wading into historical moral quandaries the guys have no business opining on. And Chris wants to see stuff blowns up real good.  After that uplifting discussion, they’ll give you the big releas...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt choose to accept the latest entry in the ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise, ‘Dead Reckoning, Part 1’.  We’re nearing the end of one of the most consistently entertaining action franchises of all time.  Are we going out with a bang, or have we lost a step or two.  Then there’s the death-defying review of the big releases on Physical Media, fea...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt step-up to that crimson door and head into The Further one last time (Maybe? Possibly?) with Patrick Wilson’s directorial debut, ‘Insidious: The Red Door’. As always, there’s the biggest Physical Media Releases of the Week, featuring the Straight-To-DVD and Streaming Picks of the Week.  Then Matt and Chris wrap up this boondoggle with another round o...

On this episode of The First Run, Chris and Matt attempt to turn back the clock one more time as Harrison Ford returns for a final grand adventure in ‘Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny’. Is there any gas left in Indy’s tank? Is why Nazi’s are bad need to be explained? Should we just have let the franchise end with The Last Crusade like we all agreed to back in 1989? There’s the rejuvenating...

This week on the First Run, Chris and Matt check the latest quirk fest from Wes Anderson, ‘Asteroid City’. Will it be the delightful deadpan delivery of the ‘Royal Tennenbaums’, or the lifeless deadpan delivery of ‘The Darjeeling Limited’? As always we there’s the thrilling yet contemplative rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Straight to DVD and Streaming Picks of the Wee...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt break the speed of light and enter the Speed Force! The great sorta’ maybe DCEU reset is here with ‘The Flash’! How do you balance the promotion of one of your big summer tent pole films and potentially reboot a cinematic shared universe against its star’s off screen, let’s say “antics”.  Will the people come out?!?  There’s the affable yet fier...

This week on the First Run, Chris and Matt kick-off their summer experiment and drop down to one film. What does that mean? For one, Matt has to slow the intro down so he doesn’t end before the theme song does. This week, the guys check out the Shudder original, the ghost story Brooklyn 45. As always, there’s the top physical media releases, the Straight to DVD and Streaming Picks of the Week. The...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt jump into the multiverse AGAIN! This time, it’s parallel universes just chock full of Spider-People.  Miles Morales returns, with pretty much every other Spider-Man you can think of in ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’! The first film was a breath of fresh air in the animated genre. Can the sequel possibly be as enthralling as the original? Can i...