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Moderate Fantasy Violence

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.

Firing all Chekov's other weapons

46 mins; March 26, 2026

You don't see that a lot on TV

52 mins; March 12, 2026

Naturally occurring crappy wallpaper

52 mins; February 26, 2026

Harbinger of the Apocalypse

54 mins; February 12, 2026

Kill all the fish people!

52 mins; January 29, 2026

The King of Table Tennis

53 mins; January 15, 2026

United by betrayal

68 hours 3 mins; January 01, 2026

A.K.A. The Shirtless Sailor

44 mins; December 19, 2025

The Man With The Infinite Bum

41 mins; December 04, 2025

Capitalism Vs Predator

44 mins; November 20, 2025

MFV #253 - The Dr Cox Effect

47 mins; November 06, 2025

MFV #252 - Apologies to the bird-blind community

51 mins; October 23, 2025

MFV #251 - A haunted doll wouldn't behave like that!

53 mins; October 09, 2025

It was always Carnage

58 mins; September 25, 2025

MFV #249 - British people like a good murder

54 mins; September 11, 2025

MFV #248 - Get inside that horse!

44 mins; August 28, 2025

Talking to the Peacock

49 mins; August 14, 2025

MFV #246 - All-Purpose Marvel Soup

44 mins; July 31, 2025

A rare moment in British cinema

52 mins; July 17, 2025

MFV #244 - What would Wes Anderson's James Bond be like?

39 mins; July 03, 2025

MFV #243 - Just homo sapien actors on soundstages

56 mins; June 19, 2025

MFV #242 - Cinematic Cinema

50 mins; June 05, 2025

Gotta throw the nerds something

47 mins; May 22, 2025

MFV #240 - The oldest, saddest man in the world

60 hours 42 mins; May 08, 2025

MFV #239 - Teen Murder Special

58 mins; April 24, 2025

MFV #238 - Do Dog Man's parents miss him?

48 mins; April 10, 2025

MFV #237 - Enjoyment Vs Content

55 mins; March 27, 2025

Good old fashioned violence

50 mins; March 13, 2025

Don't disrespect the comedy pervert

47 mins; February 27, 2025

In the mood for something massive?

49 mins; February 13, 2025

MFV #233 - BRING THE PAIN!

53 mins; January 30, 2025

Punching three bald men

41 mins; January 16, 2025

Let's get down to counting down!

76 hours 0 mins; January 02, 2025

The Oscar for Oscariness

47 mins; December 19, 2024

You deaded my woman!

46 mins; December 05, 2024

MFV #228 - He's turned into a giant bible!

49 mins; November 21, 2024

Let There Be Balls

56 mins; November 07, 2024

This is bad and you know it's bad

49 mins; October 24, 2024

Arthouse Glee

57 mins; October 10, 2024

Hungry Hectare

60 hours 25 mins; September 26, 2024

How bummer is your bummer?

49 mins; September 12, 2024

End our long suffering

51 mins; August 29, 2024

MFV #221 - Time will destroy everything

59 mins; August 15, 2024

MFV #220 - Uninteresting Failure

37 mins; August 01, 2024

CORRR Memories

48 mins; July 18, 2024

MFV #218 - Doing the Double Thanos

53 mins; July 04, 2024

MFV #217 - How adult should a cartoon blue hedgehog be?

45 mins; June 20, 2024

MFV #216 - Hardcore Nominative Determinism

47 mins; June 06, 2024

MFV #215 - Sweet innocent lovely corpse mutilation

41 mins; May 23, 2024

MFV #214 - The Meninist K-Hole

56 mins; May 09, 2024

MFV #213 - The worst job in the world

53 mins; April 25, 2024

MFV #212 - EBV (Extreme Bloody Violence)

49 mins; April 11, 2024

MFV #211 - A void in Walthamstow

54 mins; March 28, 2024

MFV #210 - The Golden Honk of the Sandworm

50 mins; March 14, 2024

MFV #209 - 80s Magic Mike

40 mins; February 29, 2024

MFV #208 - Teenage Milked Ninja Turtles

42 mins; February 15, 2024

MFV #207 - True Confessions of a Serious Film Critic

43 mins; February 01, 2024

MFV #206 - Let's quack on

47 mins; January 18, 2024

MFV #205 - What's Earthworm Jim up to?

60 hours 11 mins; January 04, 2024

New face! WAUUUGH!

51 mins; December 21, 2023

MFV #203 - Is Saltburn a British film?

54 mins; December 07, 2023

MFV #202 - He Who Complains

54 mins; November 23, 2023

MFV #201 - Someone's gonna get sucked off

37 mins; November 09, 2023

MFV #200 - Found families, related and otherwise

45 mins; October 26, 2023

MFV #199 - Bummer for you, bummer for you

42 mins; October 12, 2023

And there's a cowboy!

35 mins; September 28, 2023

Carmy's famous family

43 mins; September 14, 2023

Pandora's box of depressing jokes

44 mins; August 31, 2023

MFV #195 - They Spoiled The Film

36 mins; August 17, 2023

Oh Frank, how could you?

42 mins; August 03, 2023

Can I complain now?

48 mins; July 20, 2023

Murders per day

39 mins; July 06, 2023

The Most Terrifying Bastard Imaginable

46 mins; June 22, 2023

Screaming Service

52 mins; June 08, 2023

Are you Jedi or loser?

38 mins; May 25, 2023

MFV #188 - All the Found Family you can eat

40 mins; May 11, 2023

Dark-shaped hole

41 mins; April 27, 2023

Metaverse or bust

42 mins; April 13, 2023

Get on with the crying

42 mins; March 30, 2023

Oscar Results Honkathon 2023

36 mins; March 16, 2023

My brain is not happy with that

40 mins; March 02, 2023

Men not talking to each other

36 mins; February 16, 2023

Back to the sea

34 mins; February 02, 2023

Crap Division

43 mins; January 19, 2023

Their orgasmic relationship with dinosaurs

73 hours 8 mins; January 05, 2023

Musical Holiday Special

34 mins; December 22, 2022

So, is it cannibalism?

48 mins; December 08, 2022

The End of Everything

43 mins; November 24, 2022

Go outside!

42 mins; November 10, 2022

Part Thing/Part Man

50 mins; October 27, 2022

Unusual Clunking Noises

46 mins; October 13, 2022

Kraven's Visceral Hunt

48 mins; September 29, 2022

Locke & Newquay

42 mins; September 15, 2022

A cyclone of meth-related violence

42 mins; September 01, 2022

Eat, Prey, Nope

43 mins; August 18, 2022

Even sorrier about the covid

41 mins; August 04, 2022

Sorry about the helicopter

55 mins; July 21, 2022

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