iron-fistThirty-two tiny punches and a big stab! In a shortened episode (because they’ve moved the Power Rangers review to a separate special, admin fans), Nick and Alastair quickly cover some classic material, with H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited.

Then it’s into less-than-classic territory with Marvel’s latest Netflix/Defenders series Iron Fist (7:01), before recovering with excellent comedy-horror liberal nightmare movie Get Out (23:52).

get outLastly, what did Alastair think of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (35:13)? Is it good for anyone, or did Nick’s love of comedy music blind him to the truth?

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elleThe big three-one! Moving into the thirties with good range, as Nick and Alastair start with brief chat about the poetry of Kate Tempest and Archie-murder series Riverdale. Then it’s on to new movie Elle (9:19) which, for anyone sensitive about such content, means talking a fair bit about the film’s handling of rape.

sleaford_mods_english_tapas_grandeIf you’d rather not listen, you can skip to 25:44 and the album English Tapas by Sleaford Mods, a band Nick hadn’t previously heard. Lastly, Alastair’s recommendation: Heat (38:46), a 1995 crime epic with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

If you’re wondering why there’s only three items this episode – the fourth for the fortnight was in MFV #30, an off-schedule special where we talked Logan with guest Chris Brosnahan. It was fun, click that link and check it out.

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loganEpisode thirty! We’re old, but not as old as Wolverine! Logan goes full grizzled in his new movie, and Nick and Alastair celebrate by releasing an off-schedule special, and bringing on writer, occasional stand-up comedian and X-Men fan Chris Brosnahan to help deal with the dystopian misery of it all. But first, an epic recommendations three-way, taking in The Love Witch, American Horror Story, Spider-Man: The Clone Conspiracy, Jerusalem by Alan Moore and Twin Peaks. Runs longer than usual, mostly because Chris makes the mistake of getting Nick started about Spider-Man clones.

Speaking of which – the Life of Reilly blog series Chris mentions can be found at this link and is a fascinating look behind the scenes of that storyline. Nick’s post on our own website about the Clone Saga, which Alastair had to mention for him, is at this link right here.

old man loganBut we eventually start on our main feature: spoiler-free Logan chat at 18:40, followed by the full-fat ruinous stuff from 27:52 onwards. Is it good? In a superhero way or a proper film way? Do we know what a fight is really like? Which actor surprised us with his strong performance? Which Marvel hero did incest in the original Old Man Logan comics? All this and more! If you enjoy Chris’s appearance here, you can follow him on Twitter as @ChrisBrosnahan.

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prevenge_01Twenty nine episodes in a year! Yes, it’s Moderate Fantasy Violence’s first birthday, so Nick and Alastair allow themselves some indulgent ‘Look How Far We’ve Come!’ talk before brief recommendations of NASA movie Hidden Figures and Native American noir comic Scalped.

Then we do full-length talk-downs of curse-words-01Alice Lowe’s pregnancy revenge thriller Prevenge (8:40), hot new urban fantasy/wizard fantasy crossover comic Curse Words (20:15) by Charles Soule and Ryan Browne, the new series of BBC horror anthology Inside No. 9 (32:13) and Nick’s recommendation from last episode: the excellent (and prematurely concluded) crime comic Fell (48:54) by Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith.

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