Moderate Fantasy Violence

Moderate Fantasy Violence

By Nick Bryan & Alastair JR BallTV & FilmArtsVisual Arts
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Moderate Fantasy Violence episodes

  • MFV #279 - Grasping for dressposition

    This fortnight, we tackle The Social Reckoning (17:42), Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to the critically acclaimed The Social Network, and Slow Horses season 6 (36:46), the follow-up to the critically acclaimed seasons 1-5.

    Plus bonus talk about the new Sense & Sensibility adaptation and The Celebrity Traitors season.

    52 min
  • MFV #278 - Sorry Ryan Reynolds/Gosling!

    This fortnight, it's one of our occasional classic DC vs Marvel episodes, as we cover new Green Lantern TV show Lanterns (20:24) and Marvel's new Midnight line of comics, rebooting their major characters from a horror angle (34:26).

    Plus bonus chat about the final season of Colin From Accounts, and Alastair's annual broadcast from London Film Festival, including talk of Making of Marie Antoinette, Queer Edward II, Prima Facie, Klara and the Sun and 14th.

    56 min
  • MFV #277 - A face for looking miserable

    This fortnight, we cover an apocalyptic robot future in new comic If Destruction Be Our Lot... (20:24) and a cheerful Victorian past in Enola Holmes 3 (34:26).

    Plus bonus chat about Fackham Hall and Gilmore Girls season 1.

    54 min
  • MFV #276 - Are you Alastair?

    This fortnight, we've watched cult hit sex comedy I Want Your Sex (19:53) and also read the latest storyline of cyberpunk horror comic w0rldtr33 (35:21) which also features nudity, but... not in a sexy way.

    Plus bonus chat about Star City, the Russia-set For All Mankind spin-off, and the latest revival of Ghost in the Shell.

    52 min
  • MFV #275 - The raw soggy stuff

    This fortnight, two movies from the cult favourite end of the cinema that we've been enormously looking forward to - it's erotic comedy-drama Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (15:42) and silly animation-live-action combined movie Coyote Vs Acme (30:52).

    Also includes bonus chat about the fifteenth season of King of the Hill and the current run of Marvel's Moon Knight comics.

    46 min
  • MFV #274 - Reaching for sexposition

    This fortnight, we've stayed indoors catching up on some of the big franchise TV shows - it's X-Men '97 season 2 (9:48) and House of the Dragon season 3 (22:59). Some spoilers during the X-Men review, though we're pretty well-behaved for the dragons.

    Also some bonus chat about self-explanatory comic The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre and Anthony Bourdain biopic Tony.

    38 min
  • MFV #273 - The Spider-Male Loneliness Epidemic

    This fortnight, some major cinematic moments as we cover the massive new supermovie Spider-Man: Brand New Day (14:03, with spoilers from 26:39) and also-huge horror hit Obsession (36:16).

    Plus extra chat about Maxxxine and the fifth season of For All Mankind.

    55 min
  • MFV #272 - Entering his Dad phase

    This fortnight, we head out on an epic sea voyage into Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey (12:59) and the dark haunted island of Widow's Bay (35:13).

    Plus bonus chat about the second Absolute Batman storyline and the novel The Will of the Many by James Islington.

    50 min
  • MFV #271 - A Hugh Jackman retrospective

    This fortnight, we cover the final season of culinary stress factory The Bear (17:06) and farm-based murder mystery The Sheep Detectives (34:33).

    Plus bonus chat about the new The Pretty Reckless album (with a tangent about the new one from Muse) and animal horror comics Stray Dogs and Feral.

    43 min
  • MFV #270 - Uninteresting Success

    This fortnight, we crack into the year's summer blockbusters with Disclosure Day (17:06) and Supergirl (34:33) - including substantial spoilers throughout the Disclosure Day review so enter at your own risk.

    Plus bonus chart about Spider-Noir and Mother Courage and Her Children.

    52 min

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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…