The First Run

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...

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...