Moderate Fantasy Violence

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,...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This fortnight, we journey into the heart of darkness with sad-teen nihilist sex/crime drama Euphoria season 3 (14:25, hard ending spoilers from 31:34) and murder-arena horror comic Exquisite Corpses volume 1 (33:30) by James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh. Plus bonus chat about the Backrooms movie and the first half of Rivals season 2.

This fortnight, we finally reach the last season of The Boys (14:24), and fair warning, the spoilers are all over this one, so I'd not listen to this until you've seen the show if that's a concern. And then we also review Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu (40:32), with a little more spoiler discpline. Plus bonus chat about Detectorists and the Evangelion anniversary special.

A special extra-long episode this fortnight, as we get excited to return to the Marvel Defenderverse with Daredevil: Born Again season 2 (18:53, spoilers from 26:45), Punisher: One Last Kill (37:09) and emerge for some video game-based subway horror in Exit 8 (49:54). Plus bonus chat about the new Kneecap album and the first season of The Pitt.

This fortnight, another all-superhero special, as we cover the fourth season of Invincible (13:27) and the epic Alivens Vs Avengers crossover comic (27:46). Plus bonus chat about Golden Rage from Image Comics, and Alastair's Studio Ghibli retrospective continues with Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

This fortnight, some culture from a short while ago - the first volume of Absolute Wonder Woman (15:06) and Oscar-winning Norwegian movie Sentimental Value (28:40). Plus some bonus coverage of more past releases - Alastair's finally seen Princess Mononoke, while Nick's able to legally watch the fifth season of Harley Quinn at long last. (Also its spin off, Kite-Man: Hell Yeah!)

This fortnight, in a slight change to the advertised programme (after an unexpected trip to the cinema), we cover new dark romcom The Drama (19:00) and recent BBC folklore adventure Small Prophets (31:41). Also some bonus chat about Stranger Things season 5 and Project Hail Mary. Impressively, this podcast won't give away the big reveal in The Drama, but does include some broad Stranger Things spo...

This fortnight, we delve into two unconventional takes on superheroes - the new Marvel series Wonder Man and the climactic third volume of The Power Fantasy by Kieran Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard. Plus bonus chat about angry chef movie Soul Kitchen and the Vampirella comic run written by Christopher Priest, with art by Ergun Gunduz and others.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.