The First Run

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt put those honorary film degrees to use with their review of ‘The Brutalist’, the singular film event of 2024 for film nerds. They give you the big releases on physical media, featuring the Viper Video and Streaming Picks of the Week. Matt and Chris then wrap up the show by telling you what you should watch with the bottom half their 10 Favorite Films...

This week on The First Run, or as we may now have to start calling it, The Nick Hoult Cinema Experience!  First up, Nick plays real-life neo-nazi Bob Mathews, while Jude Law is lawman Terry Husk (not a real person) in the Canadian thriller, ‘The Order’.  Chris then shares his thoughts on ‘A Complete Unknown’, the Bob Dylan biopic that Matt was spared from watching.  Next up, it’s th...

Welcome back, constant listeners! In this episode of The First Run, Chris and Matt find their religion and ride along as the College of Cardinals elects the next owner of the Pope-Mobile in "Conclave." Then they check out ‘Nightbitch’, in which one Amy Adams says "Night, bitch!" to being a mom and a human woman. As always, there’s a confession about the big releases on Physical Media, featuring th...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt discuss their most anticipated film of 2024. Robert Eggers’ ’Nosferatu’ is finally here. Was it worth the wait, does it meet or exceed our expectations, or is it something else entirely?  There’s the intoxicating review of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Steaming and Viper Video Picks of the Week. The Rotten Tomatoes Score game wrap...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt review the latest potential entry into the "Is the action thriller a Christmas movie?" pantheon with the latest from Jaume Collet-Serra and Netflix, ‘Carry On’. They break down the big releases on Physical Media, the Streaming and Viper Video picks of the week.  Then Matt and Chris wrap it all up with another edition of Call It!, in which M...

This week on The First Run, the Sony Spider-Man, not Spider-Man, universe comes to a merciful close with ‘Kraven The Hunter’. We’re not counting ‘Spider-Noir’ on MGM+.  Is it a fitting send-off? The last bleating cries of a project that featured just miss after miss after miss.  The death rattle of a franchise. Do we finally have a good entry?  There’s the mind bending long rundown...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt slum it the genre B-move gutters they love so much with ‘Werewolves’. There’s the teeth-glaring breakdown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Viper Video and Streaming Picks of the Week. Then, Matt and Chris  wrap it up by sharing their 5 Favorite Genre Actors. So look out for those super-moons my furry friends! 00:00-11:22: Int...

This week Chris and Matt discuss the Apple+ original from director Steve McQueen, it’s ‘Blitz’. It’s our second Odyssey-esque film of the year.  This time Saoirse Ronan stars with Elliott Heffernan as the mother and son separated during the blitz of England trying to survive and reunite. There’s the bottled lightning that is the Big Releases on Physical Media, featuring the Streaming and Vipe...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt want to be sure you are entertained so they have a discussion on the latest sword and sandals epic from Ridley Scott with ‘Gladiator II’. Next up they discuss the big releases on Physical Media, give you their Viper Video and Streaming Picks of the Week. Matt and Chris then wrap it all up with their Top 5 Ridley Scott Characters.  00:00-15:00: Intro/...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt join Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evan’s on the mission to rescue Nick in ‘Red One’, the family-not-so-friendly holiday action film of November 2024! Next up, it’s on to the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Streaming and Viper Video Picks of the Week! Finally Matt and Chris close out the show with the 2024 Holiday Gift Guide for the film lover in...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt continue to work their way down the sex worker ladder with Sean Baker’s latest, ‘Anora’. Then they highlight an extremely specific and relatively unlikely ,but no less valid, danger of religion with ‘Heretic’. As always they give you the big releases on physical media, the Viper Video and Streaming picks of the week, then wrap this all up with their 5 fav...

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...