This fortnight, Nick and Alastair take a dark-comedy look at both our hellish conspiracy-laden present in Bugonia (18:05, spoilers from 28:32) and the nuclear-ravaged future in Fallout season 2 (35:04, spoilers from 43:17).
Plus bonus chat about cool queer hockey romance Heated Rivalry and another quiet Japanese film: Evil Does Not Exist.
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This fortnight, Nick and Alastair cover the latest damp Doctor Who spin-off The War Between The Land And The Sea (15:20) and recent tragic theatrical adaptation Hedda (33:53).
With bonus chat about toilet movie Perfect Days and murder comedy-drama Barry.
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For the first regular podcast of 2026, Nick and Alastair take a fully-informed look at Pluribus (17:01), their best show of 2025, and Marty Supreme (37:50), one of this year’s big Oscar contenders.
Plus bonus chat about the latest seasons of The Traitors and Foundation.
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Just in time for your 2026 return to work (and only one day late due to Nick’s holiday overindulgence schedule), it’s the MFV end of year round-up for 2025!
Featuring the usual reflections and individual top five round-ups for the core podcast areas of both TV (12:18) and film (43:42), and then Nick and Alastair attempt to reach a single unified top three. Will this be the year they finally come to blows?
Plus bonus chat about Studio Ghibli movie Spirited Away and Image comic series Monstress.
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This festive fortnight, Nick and Alastair cover one of the big Christmas movies of this year, the new Benoit Blanc mystery Wake Up Dead Man (15:01), plus the latest season of political comedy-drama series The Diplomat (27:00).
Plus some bonus chat about acclaimed crime miniseries Task and ecological scifi play The Precipice.
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This fortnight, Nick and Alastair enter the gothically dark world of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein (16:27), and the edgelordishly dark universe of youthful Boys spin-off Gen V’s second season (28:18).
Plus Alastair’s heard new Sprints album All That Is Over, while Nick’s finally finished his long binge of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.
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This fortnight, Nick and Alastair venture into the deadly landscape of Predator: Badlands (15:44), then the even scarier dark underbelly of the internet in W0rldtr33 volume 3 (29:10).
Plus Nick’s read Eight Billion Genies by Charles Soule & Ryan Browne, while Alastair’s watched Ballad of a Small Player on Netflix.
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This fortnight, it’s espionage and political drama on both sides of the pond with A House of Dynamite (13:36) and Slow Horses season 5 (29:40).
In slightly lighter territory, Alastair’s also watched Wednesday season 2, while Nick’s been living and dying with The Celebrity Traitors.
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This fortnight, another double-superhero podcast, with DC’s Peacemaker season 2 (20:44), plus Marvel Zombies (38:55) from, shockingly, Marvel providing token Halloween content. Some spoilers on that Marvel Zombies review.
Also including a belated Wicked review from Nick, plus Alastair’s annual dispatch from London Film Festival, covering movies such as H is for Hawk, The Chronology of Water and Fucktoys.
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Nick and Alastair return to smash the system (exhaustedly) with One Battle After Another, then flee from icky extra-terrestrials in Alien: Earth.
But first, Alastair’s returned to the menace of adorable robot dolls in M3gan 2.0, while Nick’s back in the world of The Office US for the first season of The Paper.
And then it’s time for One Battle After Another (18:08), the widely acclaimed new movie from Paul Thomas Anderson about Leonardo DiCaprio looking ruined in a dressing gown.
Finally, it’s Alien: Earth (36:09), the polarising new spin-off series which finally gives the xenomorph some like-minded friends.
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