For the Love of Fiction

With our latest catch up episode, Marc and Gav go over some of the recent nostalgia-bait movies Deadpool & Wolverine, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Alien Romulus, Transformers ONE and a bonus Joker rant during the intro. Thanks for listening. Check out my socials and website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://decapvada.wixsite.com/gmgroves⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/writergmgro...

Trigger warning, with this episode we discuss elements of alcoholism and mental health issues some may find upsetting. For our Halloween special, Marc decided to chose a film for us to watch and discuss. A film he thought he had seen, which in fact he had not! The Shining. Later, the guys review Doctor Sleep and Gav rants at the unoriginality of cinema today. Oh dear. Check out my socials and webs...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction! A personal project with episode 22, dedicated to the genre of Cyberpunk! Marc and Gav chat about how the genre came about, its defining features and its most important novel, William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984) As an aside they also review the 1995 film adaption of the short story that predates the novel, Johnny Mnemonic. Then, the guys chat about the Cyberpunk...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction With the impending release of Joker Folie a Deux we decided to record an episode dedicated the Clown Prince of Crime himself, including a bit of a retrospective on his history, our favourite comic outings, some of the phenomenal actors that have portrayed him on screen and finally, a review of Todd Phillips' 2019 Joker. It's a big one, but to celebrate such an in...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction It's the 40th anniversary of the legendary Transformers franchise and with the impending release of CG movie, Transformers One, Marc and Gav rank the movies up until this point, dividing the episode up into the bad movies, and the good movies. Thanks for listening! Check out my socials and website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://decapvada.wixsite.com/gmgroves⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠...

Welcome to For The Love of Fiction To celebrate the release of Beetlejuice Beetlejucie in 2024, Marc and Gavin chat about the original movie, its characters and the media released thereafter. Thanks for listening Check out my socials and website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://decapvada.wixsite.com/gmgroves⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/writergmgroves/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twit...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction. In this catch up episode, Marc and Gav chat about: TV shows - The Bear, Cobra Kai, and the Boys. Movies - Paris Texas, Godzilla X Kong, The Village, Manwa - Regressor Instruction Manual The classic American novel, Moby Dick. Furthermore, the lads reveal their Fiction Swap options, three items of narrative media they will recommend to each other and discuss in a...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction For the last episode of the season Gavin and Marc have a catch up and chat about the movies Whiplash, the Founder and deliver their thoughts on X-Men 97. Furthermore, they chat about creepy pastas, Thomas Hardy and Oppenheimer. As this is the last episode for a month or so, I just wanted to say a massive thanks to everyone who has listened to us or engaged with m...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction There's a whole lotta beef in this episode! Marc and Gavin review and discuss the wrestling biopic, The Iron Claw (2023). This is a real tear jerker of a movie, covering the tragic wrestling career of the family faction, the Von Erichs, so expect manly man tears galore. Ahem. After that, the guys, for the sake of their emotional stability, run down their top ten...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction In this episode Gavin and Marc begin their ongoing series covering 90's movie classics, specifically The Matrix and Dark City! These movies have become synonymous with each other due to similar story beats and themes, sowhat better way to celebrate them than to talk about both of them together (with a little bit of comparison to boot.) Spoilers and bad language e...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction In this episode Marc and Gavin chat about Wes Anderson and three of his movies, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Grand Budapest Hotel. Spoilers and bad language everywhere. Thanks for listening, check out my socials and website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://decapvada.wixsite.com/gmgroves⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/writergmgroves/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction Marc and Gavin chat about how they discovered the X-men franchise before beginning their first ever podcast draft! We've totally ripped this episode format off but for those who have not come across it before, it's a bit of friendly competition where myself and Marc take turns picking characters from the X-men comics to form our own cinematic universes, the stipu...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction In this episode Marc and Gavin chat about Godzilla 1954, Godzilla 1998 and their love of licensed pop songs from the 90's. Then, they take on the Monsterverse series of moves before deep diving the themes of Shin Godzilla and the most recent Godzilla Minus One. I've been telling Marc to watch Minus One for three months now, and so I think it's fitting we talk abo...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction Denis Villeneuve's Dune Part 2 has just been released so what better time to take a look back at the original novel and the previous two film adaptions, Lynch's 1984 effort and Villeneuve's Part 1 from 2021. Massive spoilers for the general story of Dune and the films throughout. Also, some rather questionable attempts at pronouncing Villeneuve's name. Oh dear. A...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction In light of the release of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Marc and Gavin look back on the original Final Fantasy VII on PS1, a game they played in their teens and one that can be seen as the backdrop to an era of their lives. Later, they also quickly chat about the sequel CGI movie, Final Fantasy VII Advent Children. This episode mainly focuses on the central narrati...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction After an in-depth discussion about Zack Snyder's Justice League cut, Marc and Gavin begin their video game narrative series with a look at The Stanley Parable and Super Metroid. Included also is a look at the different types of narrator across media. A topic Marc did actually research! 00:00 - Introduction and Justice League The Snyder Cut 37:39 - The Stanley Par...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction A more casual episode this week as Gavin and Marc chat about what they were up to over the Christmas period of 2023. Featuring: One Piece (2023 Netflix Series) Wonka Teen Wolf Vampire Hunter D Death Parade Battle Angel Alita Arcade Paradise. We also conduct a little interactive experiment this episode as Marc suggests the song 'Hi Ren' by rapper Ren and Gavin rea...

Welcome to For the Love of Fiction and our first episode of 2024! A more literary podcast, this episode was originally supposed to be uploaded in 2023 to mark the passing of author Cormac McCarthy. However, scheduling led to it being pushed back. McCarthy is one of Gavin’s favourite authors and is oftenregarded as one of the greatest American authors of the 20thcentury, writing such classics as Bl...

Welcome to the sixth episode of For the Love of Fiction Gavin and Marc take great pleasure in running down their top 5 80's kids cartoons before relaxing, having a drink and general chat about some of their favourite toys and games they received growing up. There's startling revelations and for a change, not too much drama. Featuring: He-man The Transformers Thundercats Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...

Welcome to the fifth episode of For the Love of Fiction PSA - Calling Kyle Reese a strong woman was most definitely an accident! I tell you, I have spent years laughing at the mistakes podcasters make and doing it myself now, I see how easy such a slip of the tongue is! Anyway. After the usual catch up, Gavin and Marc begin the first of their series on 80's movie classics, discussing a pair of mov...

Welcome to the fourth episode of For the Love of Fiction After a rather literary discussion in this episode’s catch up, Marc and Gavin begin the first of their anime themed episodes starting with an overview and discussion of The Guyver franchise and finishing with a look at the third volume of Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Stardust Crusaders! Spoilers and bad language throughout. 00:00 - Introduction...

Welcome to the third episode of For the Love of Fiction. Gavin and Marc have a catchup in the introduction and talk about what they’ve been up to in the past couple of weeks and then in the second section, Marc discusses the Twisted Metal video game franchise, the television series and reminiscences with Gavin about playing the games on ps1 in the 90s. In the second segment, Gavin attempts somethi...

Disclaimer: Any mis-gendering that occurs in this episode was a complete accident and not meant with any ignorance. On FTLOF we fully believe that everyone has a right to be the exact person they want to be. We're old. We suck. We're sorry. Also, there are some weird sound issues in this one, caused by shocking, personal revelations and outbursts. In the second episode of our podcast, there’s a sl...

In this first episode, Gavin and Marc introduce themselves, talk about their earliest memories of fiction and media before discussing the latest Transformers move: Rise of the Beasts and the TV show Silicon Valley. Spoilers everywhere, some mild language. Music: ReMix: Super Metroid ‘Brinstar Bonsai Garden’ by Red TailedFox – ocremix.org Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io...