Episodes

  • 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
  • MFV #259 - Kill all the fish people!
    Jan 29 2026

    This fortnight, we cover the latest damp Doctor Who spin-off The War Between The Land And The Sea (15:20) and recent tragic theatrical adaptation Hedda (33:53).

    With bonus chat about toilet movie Perfect Days and murder comedy-drama Barry.

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    52 mins
  • MFV #258 - The King of Table Tennis
    Jan 15 2026

    For the first regular podcast of 2026, we take a fully-informed look at Pluribus (17:01), our best show of 2025, and Marty Supreme (37:50), one of this year's big Oscar contenders.

    Plus bonus chat about the latest seasons of The Traitors and Foundation.

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    54 mins
  • MFV #257 - United by betrayal
    Jan 1 2026

    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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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • MFV #255 - The Man With The Infinite Bum
    Dec 4 2025

    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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    42 mins
  • MFV #256 - A.K.A. The Shirtless Sailor
    Dec 19 2025

    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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    44 mins