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03/18/22 • 57 min
This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt discuss the latest Ryan Reynolds / Shaw Levy team up, ‘The Adam Project’. After the success of ‘Free Guy’, the two return for a sci-fi actioner for Netflix featuring Reynolds’ unending, some say unbearable, charm, drama, romance, and thrills! But does it end the drought of the star’s lack luster Netflix produced content? Then it’s on the Kenneth Branaugh’s Best Picture contender, ‘Belfast’. The family drama set during the clashes in the Irish town as Jamie Dornan and his family struggle to survive and do what’s right. There’s the luxurious rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Streaming and Straight to DVD Picks of the Week. The show then closes as Matt and Chris continue the Countdown of their 50 Favorite Films as we inch closer to episode 600. This week, it’s films 30-21!
00:00-12:48: Intro/The Adam Project
12:49-22:28: Physical Media Picks
22:29-30:57: Belfast
30:58-55:25: TFR Top 50: 30-21
55:26-57:32: Wrap Up
Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey
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01/10/20 • 53 min
This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt discuss the not-long-awaited sequel to the creepy kid, scary ‘ahhhh’ cackling lady franchise, ‘The Grudge’. It’s been quite a few years since this particular horror import has had a sequel. Was it worth the wait? Then it’s on to ‘Light Of My Life’. Casey Affleck writes and directs himself as a Dad desperately trying to keep his young daughter safe in a world here most of the women were wiped out by a pandemic. Does this The Last Of Us/The Road/Y The Last Man mash up deliver the drama and thrills? Perhaps a little too much of column A and not enough of column B? There’s the always riveting rundown on the big releases on home video, featuring the Streaming and Straight to DVD Picks of the Week. Then the show closes with Chris and Matt sharing what they feel are the 5 Worst Horror Sequels of all time. It’s a tough business, those horror sequels. What ones will turn out on “Garbage Day!”?
00:00-11:15: Intro/The Grudge (’20)
11:16-23:01: Home Video Picks
23:02-32:01: Light Of My Life
32:02- 51:37: 5 Worst Horror Sequels
52:38-53:31: Wrap Up
Theme music provided by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey
TFR Ep. 670: The Last Voyage Of The Demeter, TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, 5 Favorite Movie Vampires
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08/18/23 • 54 min
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’! The boys are back in town with an animated reboot. Is 2D animation back, baby? There’s the garlic loving rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Streaming and Straight to DVD Picks of the Week. Then Matt and Chris close out the show with their 5 Favorite Movie Vampires. So come on in, all you ghouls and gals! It’s another episode of The First Run, packed the gills with Monster and Mutants!
00:00-15:34: Intro/The Last Voyage Of The Demeter
15:35-24:52: Physical Media Picks
24:53-36:28: TMNT: Mutant Mayhem
36:29-52:36: 5 Favorite Movie Vampires
52:37-54:45: Wrap Up
Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey
06/02/23 • -1 min
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 Streaming Picks of the Week. Matt and Chris wrap up the show with the Heist Marathon Awards. So let’s sabotage some property with another episode of The First Run!
00:00-17:44: Intro/How to Blow Up A Pipeline
17:45-25:25: Physical Media Picks
25:26-36:22: Dead Presidents
36:23-44:15: Heist Marathon Awards
44:16-46:38: Wrap-Up
Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey
10/15/21 • 60 min
This week on The First Run, Chris’ long wait for the Daniel Craig’s final outing as James Bond is over as after multiple delays, ‘No Time To Die’ is finally here. Matt saw it too. After all this time and all the self-imposed hype by Chris, can it possible stand up to his lofty expectations and be the perfect send off for Craig? Then the Body Horror Marathon continues with David Cronenberg’s ‘Rabid’. If you ever wondered what would happen if you were in a bad motorcycle accident and had to be cared for by the local experimental plastic surgery shop as the closest hospital was too far away and then you developed some weird deformity that made you feed on blood and then infect your victims with their own insatiable need for blood, we have the film for you. There’s the venerable rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Streaming and Straight to DVD Picks of the Week. Matt and Chris then close out the show by sharing their 5 Favorite Bond Gadgets! How many of them are cars? Any exploding pens or magnetic watches? Listen to find out Double O fans!
00:00-16:57: Intro/No Time To Die
16:58-32:09: No Time To Die Spoilers and More
32:10-40:16: Physical Media Picks
40:17-48:12: Rabid
48:13-58:24: 5 Favorite Bond Gadgets
58:25-01:00:31: Wrap Up
Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey
12/22/23 • 54 min
This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt fire up the ol’ Netflix engine to discuss a pair of...interesting films. First up, the Obama’s produced ‘Leave The World Behind’. Sam Esmail’s adaptation of the book brings together a great cast as they deal with something kind of potentially cataclysmic event. Or not? Maybe? Then it’s on to Todd Haynes’ latest, ‘May December’, featuring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore. Portman is an actress spending time with Moore as she’s set to portray her in a tv movie and hijinks ensue. There’s the holly AND jolly rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Streaming and Straight to DVD Picks of the Week. Then Matt and Chris share their perfect Christmas playlists, just for you!
00:00-11:20: Leave the World Behind
11:21-16:13: Eileen
16:14-24:30: Physical Media Picks
24:31-35:22: May December
35:23-50:00: Holiday Playlist
50:01-54:55: Wrap-Up
Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey
10/13/23 • 54 min
This week on The First Run, William Friedkin spins so hard in his grave that he’s able to power the entire eastern seaboard as Chris and Matt discuss David Gordon Green’s latest horror hijacking with ‘The Exorcist: Believer’. Does the legacy sequel possess us all once again with fear and dread? And is that fear and dread more about having to watch the next 2 films in this planned trilogy? Then Chris continues to anger Matt as they discuss ‘When Evil Lurks’, a film that will be on Shudder before you can say, do you smell something rotting? It’s another possession thriller, this time via Argentina. Is it good enough for Matt having to see it in the theaters 2 weeks prior to its streaming premiere? There’s the head-spinning rundown of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Streaming and Straight to DVD Picks of the Week. Then Matt and Chris close out the show by sharing their 5 Favorite “Final Girls”! Will it feature anyone from a film newer than 2000? Only one way to find out all you ghouls and goblins!
00:00-16:46: Intro/The Exorcist: Believer
16:47-27:49: Physical Media Picks
27:50-36:26: When Evil Lurks
36:27-50:12: 5 Favorite Final Girls
50:13-54:33: Wrap Up
Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey
TFR Ep. 561: Zola, No Sudden Move, Who Dat?!?
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07/09/21 • 89 min
This week on The First Run, it’s EXTREME-casting. Tropical storm/Hurricane Elsa is bearing down on Florida and JC of Screenfix is here to once again drive Chris insane. First up, it’s the Twitter thread come to life black comedy road trip epic that is ‘Zola’. Primarily shot locally here in Tampa, Chris hopes to identify all the local spots and see if this whole thing actually works, but is quickly undone by JC’s unique, we’ll say, perspective. Then it’s on to Steven Soderbergh’s latest streaming exclusively on HBOMax, ‘No Sudden Move’. Soderbergh returns to the twisty heist flick featuring a stellar cast out to get their hands on an incredibly dull McGuffin. And more arguments are had. There’re the big releases on physical media, featuring the Straight to DVD and Streaming Picks of the Week! The show then wraps with Chris’s first time role playing with a guest in ‘Who Dat’. It’s always awkward the first time. Join us for 90 minutes of entertaining madness as Chris is finally put in his place.
00:00-30:05: Intro/Zola (seriously, 30 minutes)
30:06-43:17: Physical Media Picks
43:18-1:03:20: No Sudden Move
1:03:21-1:25:54: Who Dat?!?
1:25:55-1:29:30: Wrap Up
Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey
02/12/21 • 47 min
This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt settle in and wrap themselves up in a comfy blanket that is the Denzel thriller. This time out its ‘The Little Things’, Denzel plays a semi-retired cop who’s brought back to his former city and dragged into a mystery that reminds him of a case that’s haunted him for years. Plus Rami Malek and Jared Leto! Then it’s on to the Irish animated folktale, ‘Wolfwalkers’. It’s 1650 in Ireland and Sean Bean (who may or may not die in this one) and his daughter are brought to Kilkenny to take out the local wolf population so the settlers can farm the forest. But there’s something out there...walking with the wolves. There’s shockingly fun review of the big releases on Physical Media, featuring the Straight to DVD and Streaming Picks of the Week. Then the show closes with Matt and Chris sharing their 5 Favorite Movie Cops since 2000.
00:00-13:24: Intro/The Little Things
13:25-22:12: Physical Media Picks
22:13-29:44: Wolfwalkers
29:45-46:05: 5 Best Movie Cops Since 2000
46:06-47:25: Wrap Up
Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey
09/04/20 • 78 min
This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt are joined by the Crooked Table podcast’s Robert Yaniz Jr. and catch up with old friends with the return of Bill S. Preston, Esquire and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan in ‘Bill & Ted Face The Music’. It’s been almost 30 years since we last saw our intrepid heroes. Have the finally united the universe in song? Then it’s on to a film many thought would never be released...and after all of this, should it have been? That’s right, it’s the long-delayed ‘The New Mutants’. Dani Moonstar and friends tackle a terrifying presence that can manifest their deepest fears. But could this evil be coming from within the house?!? There’s the deliriously reliable rundown of the big releases on physical media, featuring the Streaming and Straight to DVD Picks of the Week! Then the show closes with the return of everyone’s favorite fill-in-the-blank game, TFR Libs. Christopher Nolan demanding ‘Tenet’ get released in theaters only is _____. And more!
00:00-18:00: Intro/Bill & Ted Face The Music
18:01-28:39: Physical Media Picks
28:40-45:01: The New Mutants
45:02-01:17:45: TFR Libs
01:17:46-01:18:55: Wrap Up
Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey
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How many episodes does The First Run have?
The First Run currently has 371 episodes available.
What topics does The First Run cover?
The podcast is about First, The, Podcasts and Tv & Film.
What is the most popular episode on The First Run?
The episode title 'TFR Ep. 598: The Adam Project, Belfast, TFR Top 50: 30-21' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The First Run?
The average episode length on The First Run is 55 minutes.
How often are episodes of The First Run released?
Episodes of The First Run are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of The First Run?
The first episode of The First Run was released on Feb 24, 2018.
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