The First Run

This week on The First Run, Matt and Chris join the revolution and get their ecoterrorism on with Daniel Goldhaber’s ‘How to Blow Up A Pipeline’. Can a film ignite a revolution?  Then it’s time to put on some corpse paint and wrap up the Heist Marathon with the Hughes Brothers’ ‘Dead Presidents’. As always there’s the dreamlike rundown the physical media releases, with the Straight to DVD and...

This week on The First Run, it’s all about family.  The always expanding, death means nothing, and neither does physics cinematic exploration of family.  It’s Fast X! This time out Dom and the fam are haunted by the consequences of a prior adventure.  Consequences that we had no prior knowledge of, like Dom’s brother. Has the Toretto family finally had one too many extravagant films...

This week on the First Run, Chris and Matt check out Hypnotic, a mind control super powers movie that was apparently directed by Robert Rodriguez! They were just as surprised as you were. And even though they had seen the trailer multiple times, they remembered William Fichtner was in this but forgot Ben Affleck is too. That, gentle listeners, is what the book nerds call “foreshadowing.” Then the...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt head back over to Knowhere and catch up with what was once the surprise of the MCU, it’s the ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol. III’!  Promised to be the final film featuring the cast we all know and love, is it a fitting sendoff for the MCU’s endearing outcasts? Then the Heist Marathon continues with the beloved ‘The Italian Job’ featuring Michael Caine...

This week on the First Run, Matt and Chris demonstrate their force of will by acting rationally in the face of adversity as they watch a Finnish dude brutally murder some Nazis in ‘Sisu’. Then they kick-off their Heist Movie Marathon with the French granddaddy of the genre, ‘Rififi’. There’s the luminescent rundown of the big releases on physical media, featuring the Straight to DVD and Streaming...

This week on The First Run Chris and Matt head out to the cabin one more time…? Nope.  It’s off to a soon-to-be condemned building to see what the Khandarian demons have been up to the last few years as A book of the Dead surfaces in rainy Los Angeles and hijinks ensue in ‘Evil Dead Rise’.  Does the can’t miss franchise finally miss?  Then it’s on to the Apple+ original ‘Ghosted’, f...

This week on The First Run…well, it’s a big milestone folks. This is our 653rd episode. 6. 5. 3. For this podcast landmark, Chris and Matt covered the latest from the world’s greatest actor as one of the world’s greatest monsters with Nic Cage as Dracula in ‘Renfield’. Nicholas Hoult and Awkwafina are in it too, I guess. Then they guys discuss the Dutch/Iranian procedural serial killer thriller th...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt fire up their old NES systems, blow into the cartridge and boot up the new adaption of the classic game series, Super Mario Bros. in ‘The Super Mario Bros. Movie’ [play Oh! Effect]! Then Matt and Chris double down on all things Mario with a discussion of The Super Mario Bros. movie from 1993.  Bob Hoskins.  Bob Hoskins. There’s the boisterous ru...

This week on the First Run, Chris and Matt pull out their character sheets and polyhedral dice with ‘Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’.  On the D20 of cinema, does Chris Pine and party roll a critical success or flub it with a natural one?  Then they shift gears into Thai folklore with the horror-romance ‘Inhuman Kiss’. Chris finally gets to see one of his favorite monsters on a...

This week on the First Run, Chris and Matt dust off their gold coins and get measured for a new bullet proof suits as it’s another round of John Wick, this time we’re at Chapter 4, with no extra title descriptor. Then Matt and Chris really lean into the over-40-white-guys-with-a-podcast aspect of the show with Liam “Seamus” Neeson in and as ‘Marlowe’. Director Neil Jordan takes a stab at the legen...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt say the magic word and return to the world of the Marvel Family!  It’s Captain Marvel, Mary Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr., or as current copyrights now call them, the Shazam family.  It’s Shazam: Fury Of The Gods!  Zachary Levi and the gang return to face Helen Mirren, Lucy Lui, and current Hollywood It Girl, Rachel Zegler, collectively known...

And on this episode of The First Run, we head back to the Ghostface well one more time with ‘Scream VI’. Do we find that oh-so-refreshing potion of scares, nervous chuckles, and meta-commentary or is there not enough left in the vein to fill the bucket? Then we take a journey to a time long, long ago in a star system very, very near with Adam Driver and ‘65’. We run down the physical media, straig...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt step back into the ring one more time to defend their title as the longest running cool film podcast in all the land with their discussion of ‘Creed III’.  Michael B. Jordan steps into the director’s chair for the first time to continue the story of Adonis Creed as his past comes back to haunt him.  Much like that breakfast burrito Matt had toda...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt unretire the coke spoons and party like it's 1984 with the latest that's a thing movie, ‘Cocaine Bear’.  Then Matt and Chris keep the all animals all the time episode going with the donkey film (a phrase Matt never thought he would say) ‘EO’. There’s the sparkling lowdown on the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Straight to DVD and Stream...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt chug some Pym Particles via their Wolverine beer funnel and shrink down to the Quantamverse to check in on the latest and… let’s stick with latest, goings on in the MCU with Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania!  We got legit Kang this time, finally! Or at least one of them.  Does Phase 5 kick off with a ka-bloowie?  Or a whimper?  Then i...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt get ready for another M. Night apocalypse with ‘Knock At The Cabin’.  Do we get the effectively understated peril of Signs or the-boy-those-are-some-choices of ‘The Happening’?  The world’s greatest movie podcast will let you know.  Then they head back to meta town with Kevin Williamson’s pandemic slasher, ‘Sick’.  There’s the enthrall...

We ran into some technical difficulties this week, so our discussion of ‘Knock At The Cabin’, ‘Sick’, and the conclusion of our Top 10 of 2022 will be delayed a week.  In the interim, enjoy Matt’s appearance on Season 3 of ScreenRun, as John Carpenter’s masterpiece, ‘The Thing’, gets the ScreenRun breakdown!  See you soon!

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt once again dive into the deeply unsettling waters that are a Brandon Cronenberg joint with ‘Infinity Pool’.  Mia Goth continues her stellar run along with one of the Skarsgard kids.  The REALLY good looking one in a film about the worst vacation available, unless you’re filthy rich.  And a jerk.  Then Yeon Sang-ho, director of great ‘T...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt leverage the creepiness of the internet for both good and evil with the anthology sequel to ‘Searching’, ‘Missing’. This time, it’s Mom that’s gone AWOL.  Can her young internet sleuthing daughter find her in time?  Then it’s on to the latest from indie darling Noah Baumbach with his adaption of one of the great American literary satires, ‘White...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt relive their lo-fi, what the hell is HD, glory days of the 90’s with the experimental horror film that’s dividing audiences, ‘Skinamarink’.  Has director Kyle Edward Ball redefined horror cinema? Or is this a one-off shiny little trinket easily forgotten?  Then it’s on to the Netflix adaptation of ‘All Quiet On The Western Front’, this time actu...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt check out the latest AI is evil and will kill us all film, ‘M3GAN’. Do we have another friend to the end?  Then because it’s awards season and we can’t feel too good about ourselves, it’s the Scottish import ‘Aftersun’. The story of a young girl’s vacation with her father, and the distance between them and all of us.  There’s the review of the b...

This week on The First Run, renowned asshole Darren Aronofsky returns with ‘The Whale’.  Perhaps we can get past all that and focus on Brendan Fraiser and what’s being called one of the best performances of the year.  Then we begin our best of 2022 catch up with Alejandro Iñárritu’s ‘Bardo, A False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths’. A story about a identity, crisis, and humanity, that ma...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt catch up with yet another ode to old Hollywood with Damian Chazelle’s ‘Babylon’. Is this an inspired addition to a tired sub-genre or is it the latest masturbatory entry of film makers telling us how great and important their craft is? We’ll let you definitively. Speaking of how oh so important filmmakers are, Matt and Chris finally check Rian Johnson’s l...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt return to Pandora after 13 years away to check in on what the haps!  Is Unobrtainium still the hottest thing? Or is it now the Crypto of super space minerals.  Has Cameron corrected the issues from the first entry and tightened things up a bit? Then it’s Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Bones And All’, the romance road trip body horror film you never knew you...

This week on The First Run, it’s the holidays so of course Chris and Matt crank up the creepy with ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’. The second adaptation of the classic story this year, but this time we’re sans Disney! Then Matt and Chris join the Guardians of the Galaxy in a Christmas search for Earth’s greatest hero in ‘The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special’. As always, there’s the thrill...