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 favorite roles where actors played against type.

00:00-17:54: Intro/Anora

17:55-27:02: Physical Media Picks

27:03-36:30: Heretic

36:31-50:06: 5 Favorite Roles Against Type

50:07-53:42: Wrap-Up

Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey