Episode nineteen, and it's almost feature length this time! But in our defence, there's a lot to get through. Before any of that, though, we've been attending live recordings of other podcasts, specifically Welcome to Night Vale at the London Palladium and the very special 200th episode of SILENCE!

That done, we launch into new Marvel Cinematic Universe movie Doctor Strange (5:38) and ask: is there room for yet another superhero origin? Also: too many glowing magic bolts?

We've also got Class, the new Doctor Who spin-off (25:05), and since this is our first ever Who item, we talk for a fair while and bring in guest book blogger Julianne Benford to talk about the YA aspects of it all. If you enjoy Julianne's appearance here, she's @ladyjulianne on Twitter, has a book blog at http://thisfleetingdream.blogspot.com and also has other online presences that you can see in our website notes at moderatefantasyviolence.com

Moving out of mainstream geek culture, we've also seen I, Daniel Blake (52:59), the new movie from Ken Loach about Britain's none-too-fair welfare system. If you want to see Alastair's take on the politics of this film, you can read that on his website at redtrainblog.com

And then going right back into the nerdosphere, Nick's recommended Alastair the first few episodes of anarchic sci-fi cartoon Rick & Morty! (68:14)

Episode eighteen, so the podcast has finally come of age! Nick also completes a major rite of passage as he finally finishes Twin Peaks, while Alastair is out partying at the London Film Festival.

After that, it's a game of two halves as we check out two new American TV shows: the opening seven episodes of Luke Cage, the new Marvel Netflix series (5:36 WITH SPOILERS), and the pilot of Westworld, a new sci-fi series from HBO (24:32).

In the latter stage, it's all about British cinema with Spaceship (38:53), a spacey teenage drama we saw at London Film Festival, and Alastair's recommendation from last week, the East Midlands revenge thriller Dead Man's Shoes (49:41).