The First Run

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...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt discuss David Harbour’s is John McClane as Santa Claus in ‘Violent Night’.  Santa is forced to confront, or perhaps revel in, his violent past when he becomes the only hope to save a naughty family from some even naughtier thieves on Christmas Eve. Then Cate Blanchette plays the titular ‘Tár’, a conducter on the edge bro. Fighting back against w...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt check out the latest feel pretty good but not too good nostalgia fest from Steven Spielberg, ‘The Fabelmans’. Does this semi-autobiographical film give us an earnest peek into the legendary director’s youth and love for cinema?  Or does Matt’s repulsion to biopics continue?  Then it’s on to the classic song and dance duo of Will Ferrell and Ryan...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt take a trip to experience THE exclusive menu provided by ‘The Menu’. Ralph Fiennes is a chef with a secret. Anya Taylor-Joy is one of the customers who may be on to the shenanigans.  And everyone else may just be horrible.  The Shudder brings back the found footage anthology series for another spin.  So fire up those VCR’s, it’s ‘V/H/S/99’....

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt revisit the scientifically magical world of Wakanda with ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’!  T’Challa has passed and to make things worse, Namor arrives in the MCU with his roguish charm and ankle wings to cause problems for our heroes. Then it’s on to the Roku Channel original, ‘Weird: The Al Yankovic Story’. It’s a week of film with colons.  Wi...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt book a trip to a lovely little island off the coast of Ireland (part of a much bigger island) to catch up with the reunion of writer/director Martin McDonagh, Colin Farrell, and Brendan Gleeson before they stop talking to each other forever with ‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’. Then it’s off to South Korea to help solve the mystery of an accident, that may be...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt book a cruise with the rich and decadent to visit the scenic ‘Triangle Of Sadness’! Filled with a Russian oligarchs, Weapons Manufacturers, and possibly the worst of all, Social Media Influencers, is this trip with the 2 & half hour experience? Then as a treat, it’s ‘Werewolf By Night’! Disney+’s Halloween special is a throwback to the classic Univers...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt shout “Shazam!” and The Rock’s passion project ‘Black Adam’ appears in a burst of lightning, ready for our review. Is it the course correction the DCEU has been waiting for?  Then the guys make one last trip to the Quik Stop with ‘Clerks III’.  Kevin Smith revisits the much beloved convenience store in Red Bank, NJ. But can you really go home ag...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt head back to Haddonfield one more time, for now, as the David Gordon Green and Danny McBride helmed Halloween rest comes to an end with, ‘Halloween Ends’.  Is Jamie Lee Curtis’ second run at franchise resetting sequel the best one yet?  Then it’s on to the film Matt has been chomping at the bit to discuss for weeks!  Andrew Dominik’s ‘Blond...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt dive in to the A-Lister stuffed latest from David O. Russell, ‘Amsterdam’. Then we open the LeMarchand box and experience the ickiest of dubious pleasures with Hulu’s ‘Hellraiser’ remake/reboot. But wait there’s more! Our spooky season werewolf marathon continues with ‘Ginger Snaps’, a film that sets out to prove there is truly nothing so terrifying as a...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt decide to deal with our personal trauma head on, via confronting an evil entity that represents said trauma. It’s been the chic thing to do in horror the past few years, but can it be too on the nose, or down the mouth if you will. It’s ‘Smile’’.  Then our Halloween Werewolves Movie Marathon begins with the OG Universal classic, 1941’s ‘The Wolf Man’...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt publicly serve Olivia Wilde with another review of her latest, ‘Don't Worry Darling’. Is it as bad as critics make out to be or is Harry Styles so miscast that not even Florence Pugh and Chris Pine can save it?  Then, we'll open the 80's nostalgia time capsule and pull out a sequel I don't think anyone was asking for with ‘Confess, Fletch’. This one...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt venture back to war time, World War I to be specific, and check in on everyone’s favorite super horny geriatric maniac in her young, formative years.  Ti West and Mia Goth return with ‘Pearl’!  Can a prequel possibly improve upon, or rescue, ‘X’?  Then Matt throws Chris a bone as they discuss the David Bowie Super Documentary, ‘Moonage Dayd...

This week on the First Run, Chris and Matt discuss the latest indie horror darling, ‘Barbarian’.  Is it a Gen Z, ultra-meta Air BnB critique that’s too clever for its own good?  Or is it a surprisingly effective gem?  Your favorite internet uncles will fill you in. Then it’s on to the latest entry in the Tom Hanks does a bad accent canon, the “live-action” Pinocchio. As always, we’l...

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt share with you a kindness with their discussion of Adamma Ebo’s ‘Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul’. The dark satire about a mega-church’s fall from grace and attempted comeback featuring Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown.  Redemption is guaranteed, right? Then Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth star in a riveting thriller,  ‘Resurrection’. A film that take...