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 today. HA! Then Chris yells BINGO as he’s able to check off his final Best Picture nominee with Sarah Polley’s ficti...
Mar 10, 2023•56 min
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 Streaming Picks of the Week. Chris and Matt wrap it up all the fuzzy friend love with their 5 Favorite Movie Ani...
Mar 03, 2023•45 min
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 it’s on the Nazi Wherwolf, not Werewolf, thriller, ‘Burial’. Brana and her Russian comrades are tasked with bring a body to S...
Feb 24, 2023•1 hr 1 min
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 enthralling rundown of the big upcoming Physical Media Releases, along with the Straight to DVD and Streaming Picks of the Week. And...
Feb 17, 2023•55 min
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!
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 15 min
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 ‘Train To Busan’ returns with the Netflix original, ‘Jung_E’. When is a sci-fi action film not so much about sci-fi or action?...
Feb 03, 2023•46 min
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 Noise’. There’s the illuminating rundown of the big physical media releases, featuring the Straight to DVD and ...
Jan 27, 2023•1 hr
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 actually made by a German. Does the fervent anti-war message carry through or are we just revisiting another ‘1917’ ...
Jan 20, 2023•54 min
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 big releases on Physical Media featuring the Straight to DVD and Streaming Picks of the Week. Then Matt and Chris...
Jan 13, 2023•49 min
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 maybe something entirely different. Auteur’s gonna’ auteur. There’s the brand new ultra-cool revamp of the big rel...
Jan 06, 2023•1 hr 4 min
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 latest, ‘Glass Onion’. Benoit Blanc returns to solve another star-studded murder! There’s the rivetin...
Dec 30, 2022•1 hr
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 needed. If you fall into a very specific audience type. I’m thinking like 5% of you. There’s the review of the ...
Dec 23, 2022
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 thrilling break down of the upcoming Physical Media Releases and the Straight to DVD and Streaming Picks o...
Dec 16, 2022•52 min
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 woke culture and perhaps her own ego. There’s the This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt discuss David Harbo...
Dec 09, 2022•53 min
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 Reynolds with the latest riff on a Christmas Carol, ‘Spirited’. As always, there’s the rundown of the big relea...
Dec 02, 2022•58 min
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’. Is it time to retire the series and move on to DVD01? Or is there still some fire in the old series left? There’s the...
Nov 25, 2022•1 hr 2 min
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. Will the artist responsible for such luminary classics as Eat It and Dare To Be Stupid deliver a biopic that even ...
Nov 18, 2022•58 min
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 a murder, with a dusting of love thrown in. It’s Park Chan-Wook's latest, ‘Decision to Leave’. Ther...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr
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 Universal monster movies! But is it more a trick? The Werewolf Marathon wraps with Joe Dante’s 80’s cult cl...
Nov 04, 2022•59 min
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 again, again? The Werewolf Marathon continues with the barely relevant, ‘Wolfen’, featuring Albert Finney facing o...
Oct 28, 2022•1 hr 19 min
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 ‘Blonde’, featuring Ana De Armas as the Marilyn Monroe. It’s Netflix’s first NC-17 film, could it herald the beginning of a ...
Oct 21, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 628
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 teenage girl. There’s the life-changing rundown of the big releases on physical media, featuring the...
Oct 14, 2022•1 hr 5 min
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’. Lon Chaney Jr. is the titular Wolfman, named Larry. Not something cool like Sirius or Dixon. Fenris? Nop...
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr 9 min
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 replaces Chevy Chase with Jon Hamm though so it can go nowhere but up, right? Right? As always, we'll run ...
Sep 30, 2022
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 Daydream’. Bowie being Chris’ favorite musician, he tends to run super-critical of works associated with The Thin White Du...
Sep 23, 2022
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’ll run down the upcoming releases on Physical Media, featuring the Straight to DVD and Streaming Picks of the Week. Mat...
Sep 16, 2022•54 min
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 takes a turn that may or may not work. Hall has been on quite a streak, does it continue? There’s the transcendent r...
Sep 09, 2022
This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt catch up with another movie Matt has never heard of with George Miller’s (yes, that George Miller) ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’. Tilda Swinton plays a scholar that specializes in storytelling, of legend and myth. She finds a bottle and releases an honest to goodness Jinn, played by the overly handsome DJ Idris Elba. So what wishes will be granted? And what stories will be told? Then it’s time to wrap up the Malick Marathon with both versions of “do...
Sep 02, 2022•45 min
This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt discuss the return of everyone’s favorite Esther, it’s ‘Orphan: First Kill’. In this prequel to the cult classic, they take a BIG swing, but does it connect? For the hit. It’s a baseball metaphor. Then our Malick Marathon continues with its penultimate entry, ‘Night Of The Cups’. Christian Bale stars as a lost man in search of himself. As there is apparently raging hurricanes around him at all times as Malick’s camera is never stationary. There’s the li...
Aug 26, 2022•1 hr 2 min
This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt catch up with the latest offering from A24, the post-post-modern murder satire ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’. Someone turns up dead during a friendly game, but who dun it? And does it even matter? From there it’s on to the Brad Pitt led latest over-saturated action cameo-fest, ‘Bullet Train’. So many stars! So much potential! So much movie! Then Matt and Chris crest the top of the bell curve with our third entry in our Malick Marathon, ‘The New World’. Breatht...
Aug 19, 2022•1 hr 10 min
