The First Run

This week on the First Run, Matt and Chris check out the latest experimental film, with this one featuring Chris' man-crush Alan Ritchson with ‘Motor City’. Then Chris will give you the big releases on Physical Media.  Matt and Chris wrap up the show with their 5 Favorite Beefy Actors!

00:00-15:03: Intro/Motor City

15:04-22:04: Physical Media Picks

22:05-36:39: 5 Favorite Beefy Actors

36:40-38:46: Wrap Up

Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt take a trip to Raccoon City one more time.  Oh wait, what’s this?  Our tour guide is one Zach Cregger, who previously helmed ‘Barbarian’ and ‘Weapons’.  Well then.  Do we have a good video game adaption?  Could it possibly be a great one?!?  Then Chris runs down the big releases on Physical Media and has a couple things to complaint about.  So if you see something weird in the distance, crank the volume on this episode, turn around and walk the other way…

00:00-16:16: Intro/Resident Evil (2026)

16:17-24:50: Physical Media Picks

24:51-26:30: Wrap Up

Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey

This week on the First Run, Matt and Chris check out the latest k-monster (is that a thing?) film with ‘Hope’. Something is hunting the fine people of Hope Harbor.  Is it a monsters? Monsters? Aliens? Alien monsters? Then, Chris will give you the run down of all the big releases on physical media. Your life will be meaningless if you don't buy them. Seriously. 

00:00-13:46: Intro/Hope

13:47-22:19: Physical Media Picks

22:20-24:06: Wrap Up

Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey

This week on The First Run, it’s a double feature as Chris and Matt discuss Adam Wingard’s ‘Onslaught’ and  the boys from ‘Game Night’ and Matt’s beloved ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’, with ‘Mayday’, featuring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh!  Chris has a theory about Wingard that he thinks proves out with his latest offering, along with the Red Giant idea for Ryan Reynolds.  There’s the always gripping rundown of the big releases on Physical Media too.  Just 30+ minutes of non-stop excitement!

00:00-12:15: Intro/Onslaught

12:16-19:15: Physical Media Picks

19:16-29:37: Mayday

29:38-33:12: Wrap Up

Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey

This week on the First Run, Chris and Matt check out a film that dares to ask how much of a psychopath was Barney with ‘Buddy’. Chris will give you the big releases on physical media then they'll wrap up a show with discussion of the road trip from (in?) hell with ‘It Ends’.  So buckle TFRiends! It’s another banger!

00:00-14:53: Intro/Buddy

14:54-21:51: Physical Media Picks

21:52-31:31: It Ends

31:32-34:00: Wrap Up

Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt discuss the meta sexy(?) horror film from Jane Schoenbrun, ‘Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma’. After the initially confounding, surreal, and heartbreakingly earnest ‘I Saw There TV Glow’, Schoenbrun returns with a loving homage to the 70’s and 80’s slashers, and herself.  Chris then closes out the proceedings with the big releases on Physical Media.  So keep an eye out for the air duct wearing killers and enjoy another fire episode!

00:00-16:17: Intro/Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma

16:18-23:05: Physical Media Picks

23:06-25:14: Wrap Up

Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey

This week on the First Run, it's all dinosaurs all the time with a side of time travel shenanigans with ‘The End of Oak Street’. Then, Chris gives you the big releases on physical media!  Matt and Chris close out the show by discussing the recent MCU X-Men casting news. 

00:00-20:55: Intro/The End of Oak Street

20:56-33:52: Physical Media Picks

33:53-45:41: MCU & X-Men

45:42-46:46: Wrap Up

Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey

Brian Skutle’s Sonic Cinema: Facism In Cinema

This week on The First Run, Chris and Matt discuss the latest in Disney/Pixar’s greatest franchise, it’s ‘Toy Story 5’! Matt loves his little kid cartoons. Always avoiding serious cinema like the plague. In fact just last week he was droning on and on about how a superhero movie almost mare him cry. Twice.  Since Chris has never seen a single Broken Lizard production, and had no interest in Purge facist sex comedy devoid of any sexy, we’re left with Toy Story 5. Goo-goo Gaga Matt. Let’s discuss your precious cartoon.

00:00-19:24: Intro/Toy Story 5

19:25-25:36: Physical Media Picks

25:37-27:26: Wrap Up

Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey

This week on the First Run, Matt finally gets to see something he was excited about with ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’. Is it the Spider-Man movie to end all Spider-Man movies? What does it say about Chris that he prefers his Peter Parker miserable and tortured by life? Then, they'll give you the big run down of upcoming physical media releases and wrap up the episode with their 5 favorite Spider-Man...things.  

00:00-15:40: Intro/Spider-Man: Brand New Day

15:41-26:25: Brand New Day Spoilers

26:26-32:48: Physical Media Picks

32:49-44:09: 5 Favorite Spider-Things

44:10-46:35: Wrap Up

Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey

This week on The First Run, Chris potentially tests Matt’s patience with one of his most anticipated films of 2026!  It’s latest from Nicolas Winding Refn, ‘Her Private Hell’!   It’s been 10 years, and after a brush with death, Refn returns to the big screen, determined to destroy your expectations and narrative structure.  Was it worth the wait?  Then Chris closes the curtain with the big releases on Physical Media! 

00:00-17:17: Intro/Her Private Hell

17:18-21:22: Physical Media Picks

21:23-24:01: Wrap Up

Theme music by Jamal Malachi Ford-Bey