It’s the return of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1. Does Jennifer Lawrence still tickle the fancy of the Reddit generation? Are two movies required to conclude the greatest young adult literary epic of the past 300 years? Could we be more sarcastic jerks than we are now?
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No, we didn't forget! Late but still awesome, it's our Interstellar Spoiler Show!
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Chris and Dave watched Michael Keaton, along with Edward Norton, tear it up in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Birdman’. The story of a not quite washed up actor trying to recapture his art, one disastrous rehearsal at a time.
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Christopher Nolan latest film, ‘Interstellar’, starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, and a whole mess of other people is here! Is it Nolan’s masterpiece or a bloated effects-driven mess?
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This week on The First Run, Dave & Chris watched Keanu Reeves kick all kinds of ass, and possible reignite his career, in ‘John Wick’…?
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Happy Halloween! It’s a special edition of TFR as Chris Scalzo fills you in on some of the horror films he’s checked out recently. Some good, some bad, hopefully all scary.
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It’s our 250th episode spectacular! Chris and Dave are joined by former co-hosts Chris Espo & Matt Howell for our anniversary edition. The big show features our discussion of David Ayer’s ‘Fury’, starring Brad Pitt.
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This week on the big show, it’s a non-Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. picture, ’The Judge’.
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This week on The First Run, Chris & Dave caught up with the latest from David Fincher, ‘Gone Girl’. It’s the story of some guy’s wife that disappears and he may or may not have killed her. Or something. I don’t know.
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Denzel Washington is Edward Woodward as Robert (McCall?) in…'The Equalizer'. Is Denzel intruding on Liam Neeson’s aging action thriller territory?
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This week on The First Run, Chris and Dave got to see an out of season Liam Neeson movie, ‘A Walk Among The Tombstones’, where Liam Neeson does his Liam Neeson thing.
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Is the crucible that was the last few weeks at the movies over with 'The Drop', starring Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini in his last film role?
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Chris and Dave decided to curl up on their respective couches and check out some On Demand Indie stuff with ‘The One I Love’, starring Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss.
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This week, it's Richard Linklater’s ‘Boyhood. A film 12 years in the making about a boys journey into adulthood. Can the film possibly live up to all of the accolades?
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This week we discuss 'Jodorowski’s Dune'. Were we robbed of potentially one of the great artistic masterpieces in cinema history?
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It’s return of Sylvester Stallone and all 16 of his buddies as they try to relive the glory days of the 80’s action film one last time.
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It's one of their most anticipated films of the summer, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Those trailers looked like a lot of fun. But is the film any fun?
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This week on The First Run, Chris and Dave had two releases to choose from. Lucy or Hercules. And they went with Hercules. Was it the right call?
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Bong Joon-ho, director of The Host (the good one), makes his American debut with Snowpiercer. The story of the cure for global warming gone bad. Like stuck in the bathroom on the Acela for the rest of your life bad.
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All monkeys, all the time. This week on The First Run, Chris and Dave saw the sequel to the reboot of a reboot of an old, kinda of corny franchise. It’s ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’!
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