MFV #254 - Capitalism Vs Predator
Moderate Fantasy Violence
This fortnight, we venture into the deadly landscape of Predator: Badlands (15:44), then the even scarier dark underbelly of the internet in W0rldtr33 volume 3 (29:10). Plus Nick's read Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule & Ryan Browne, while Alastair's watched Ballad of a Small Player on Netflix.
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MFV #253 - The Dr Cox Effect
Moderate Fantasy Violence
This fortnight, it's espionage and political drama on both sides of the pond with A House of Dynamite (13:36) and Slow Horses season 5 (29:40). In slightly lighter territory, Alastair's also watched Wednesday season 2, while Nick's been living and dying with The Celebrity Traitors.
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MFV #252 - Apologies to the bird-blind community
Moderate Fantasy Violence
This fortnight, another double-superhero podcast, with DC's Peacemaker season 2 (20:44) and Marvel Zombies (38:55) from, shockingly, Marvel providing our token Halloween content. Also including a belated Wicked review from Nick, plus Alastair's annual dispatch from London Film Festival, covering movies such as H is for Hawk, The Chronology of Water and Fucktoys.
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MFV #251 - A haunted doll wouldn’t behave like that!
Moderate Fantasy Violence
This fortnight, Nick and Alastair battle the evils of the system (exhaustedly) with One Battle After Another (18:08) and then icky extraterrestrial creatures in Alien: Earth (36:09). As if that wasn't enough, Alastair's seen M3gan 2.0, while Nick's watched the first season of The Paper, the new sitcom spinning off from The Office US.
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MFV #250 - It was always Carnage
Moderate Fantasy Violence
To celebrate a ridiculous 250 episodes, we're once again recommending each other some favourites. Alastair's making Nick watch Alice in Borderland (20:21) on Netflix, while Nick's imposing on Alastair with 90s superhero-cyberpunk comic Spider-Man 2099 (36:15), as a small homage to recently departed writer Peter David. Also featuring some chat about the latest seasons of Ghosts US and Abbot Elementary, plus the 2024 movie Queer.
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MFV #249 - British people like a good murder
Moderate Fantasy Violence
We're revisting some old friends this fortnight, as our favourite righteous serial killer returns from beyond the grave in Dexter: Resurrection (16:36), and then we revisit the superhuman superpowers in The Power Fantasy volume 2 (32:46). With bonus discussion of the King of the Hill revival, plus the book Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen. And don't forget you can back ! A fun story of violent teen rebellion in a monster royal family, with amazing art by Lane Lloyd and lovely letters by Lettersquids!
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MFV #248 - Get inside that horse!
Moderate Fantasy Violence
An animated explosion this week, as we cover smash hit animated Netflix movie K-Pop Demon Hunters (13:59) and new Marvel anthology series Eyes of Wakanda (27:33). Plus a brief early chat about The Marvellous Mrs Maisel season 1 and Scottish samurai movie Tornado.
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MFV #247 - Talking to the Peacock
Moderate Fantasy Violence
This fortnight, two favourite TV shows return for high-pressure new outings - it's The Bear season 4 (19:57) and Poker Face season 2 (35:46). Elsewhere, we've been reading some novels for once - specifically Butter by Asako Yuzuki and The Ministry of Tme by Kaliane Bradley.
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MFV #246 - All-Purpose Marvel Soup
Moderate Fantasy Violence
This fortnight, we dig into Fantastic Four: First Steps (17:10), one of the big comics adaptations of the summer, and The Old Guard 2 (33:22), another one. We also look at political UFO comic Saucer County and Tim Key's new movie The Ballad of Wallis Island.
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MFV #245 - A rare moment in British cinema
Moderate Fantasy Violence
A double-bill of metallic superhero action this fortnight, as we cover the Man of Steel's return to cinemas in Superman (15:05), and the latest Marvel TV show Ironheart (36:43, with moderate spoilers from 41:59 and full-on ruinous ending spoilers from 48:11). We also discuss Japanese dark comedy movie Baby Assassins and new Apple TV scifi-comedy Murderbot.
info_outlineAs 2025 begins, one last gasp for last year, as we get together for our traditional end of year round-up episode. Witness our general thoughts and top five favourites for both film (17:33) and TV (43:29) in 2024.
And for those who prefer it when we review specific things, there's also chat about Dune: Prophecy and the recent Doctor Who special Joy to the World at the very start.
More shownotes and end of year review articles, including Alastair's year in film and Nick's Top Ten TV Shows, at ModerateFantasyViolence.com