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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.
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Now displaying: October, 2019
Oct 24, 2019

ONE CENTURY OF MODERATE FANTASY VIOLENCE!

Yes, it's our hundredth episode, and after tipping a hat to the present day by reviewing new Breaking Bad movie El Camino (13:10), we rocket off into the past to recommend each other our teenage favourites.

For Alastair, that means Shane Meadows' debut feature A Room For Romeo Brass (20:36), while Nick revisits the classic cyberpunk-journalism comic Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson. (35:03)

Fuller shownotes at ModerateFantasyViolence.com

Oct 10, 2019

This NINETY-NINTH fortnight, tagging right in to the general discourse, we talk about the new Joker film (10:15, with some more specific spoilers from 21:30), then ask: to what degree are you supposed to empathise with villains? (35:21)

Fuller shownotes at ModerateFantasyViolence.com

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