MFV #257 - United by betrayal
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Just in time for your 2026 return to work (and only one day late due to Nick's holiday overindulgence schedule), it's the MFV end of year round-up for 2025! Featuring the usual reflections and individual top five round-ups for our core areas of both TV (12:18) and film (43:42), and then an attempt to reach a single unified top three. Will this be the year we finally come to blows? Plus bonus chat about Studio Ghibli movie Spirited Away and Image comic series Monstress.
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MFV #256 - A.K.A. The Shirtless Sailor
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This festive fortnight, we cover one of the big Christmas movies of this year, the new Benoit Blanc mystery Wake Up Dead Man (15:01), plus the latest season of political comedy-drama series The Diplomat (27:00). Plus bonus chat about acclaimed crime miniseries Task and ecological scifi play The Precipice.
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MFV #255 - The Man With The Infinite Bum
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This fortnight, Nick and Alastair enter the gothically dark world of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (16:27), and the edgelordishly dark universe of youthful Boys spin-off Gen V's second season (28:18). Plus Alastair's heard new Sprints album All That Is Over, while Nick's finally finished his long binge of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.
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MFV #254 - Capitalism Vs Predator
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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!
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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.
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