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Moderate Fantasy Violence

Moderate Fantasy Violence

By: Nick Bryan & Alastair JR Ball
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Welcome to Moderate Fantasy Violence, a fortnightly podcast about pop culture and the world around it, as discussed by Nick Bryan and Alastair JR Ball. Nick will probably launch into a tangent about comics, Alastair will likely go for politics. Both are equally worthwhile.Nick Bryan and Alastair JR Ball Art
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  • MFV #261 - Naturally occurring crappy wallpaper
    Feb 26 2026

    This fortnight, it's the 10th anniversary of Moderate Fantasy Violence! Somehow we've done this for a whole decade, and obviously, we celebrate by doing one of our double-recommendation episodes, this time focusing on releases from within the last ten years.

    Nick's suggested hot new comic series Absolute Batman (16:15) while Alastair's plunging us into The Backrooms (34:30), the YouTube series by Kane PIxels about to become a movie from A24.

    With bonus chat about Train Dreams, the next movie in the Oscar marathon, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3.

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    52 mins
  • MFV #262 - You don't see that a lot on TV
    Mar 12 2026

    This fortnight, we return to Westeros once more for A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms (23:05), then go deep undercover in The Secret Agent (37:46).

    Plus bonus chat about Nick's extensive Judge Dredd reading, and Alastair's favourite time of the cultural year arrives, with his Oscar predictions, plus a brief review of F1.

    Nick's latest comic, the second volume of The Collected Letters of Courier Z, is funding on Kickstarter now!

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    52 mins
  • MFV #260 - Harbinger of the Apocalypse
    Feb 12 2026

    This fortnight, we take a dark-comedy look at both our hellish conspiracy-laden present in Bugonia (18:05, spoilers from 28:32) and the nuclear-ravaged future in Fallout season 2 (35:04, spoilers from 43:17).

    Plus bonus chat about cool queer hockey romance Heated Rivalry and another quiet Japanese film Evil Does Not Exist.

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    54 mins
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