Science Fiction Rating System

Our third and final 2014 film is Predestination in which Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook tie themselves in knots trying to catch the poorly named Fizzle Bomber. Predictably we also get a bit confused attempting to un-jumble the paradox before Chris activates his own time machine to cheat on Alex’s quiz. Next week its Dr Who & The Daleks! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website!...

Part 2 of our 2014 trilogy is Chris’ pick: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, the big budget sci-fi thinker that *INCEPTION NOISE*d into cinemas five years ago. Find out which host can’t stand Jessica Chastain, which host is bailing out of Nolan films, and which host is finally ‘taking this seriously’ now that we are 88 episodes in 😐 Next week the 2014 trilogy concludes with Predestination! GIVE U...

Its 2019 and we’re back from break with three weeks of films from 2014, a year now apparently (and absurdly) FIVE YEARS FROM NOW. I mean really, time is a bit weird, isn’t it? Anyway this week is an uncharacteristically nuanced and deep look at Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin, in which we attempt to separate authorial intent from the audience’s experience, discuss the merits of ambiguity versus a...

It’s Christmas Day so what better way to celebrate than putting your headphones in and watching a bunch of trailers with your chums from the SFRS? Its our 2nd annual Christmas show! We discuss our favourite sci-fi (and non sci-fi) films of 2018, look forward to the year ahead, see how well we predicted the year in film and make more predictions for the coming year. We also help Chris work out what...

We end 2018 with a bang, the second (and fifth) Star Wars, which is also the third we’re rating. Predictably we can’t stop talking about it in this bumper episode. How do you make a sound like a Mynock? Is Lando a secret clothes thief? And is there a better Star Wars film? Join us as we see out the year in a galaxy far, far away… GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the...

This week its all Chris’ fault. We watch his choice of science fiction films, 1993’s Knights, a messy, cheap and Lance Henriksen starring post-apocalyptic tale of cyborg knights, kickboxing slaves and Kris Kristofferson not really being aware what film he’s in. If you can face it you can watch the whole film here! And if not, let us tell you why you should really click that link. Oh and listen til...

This week its back to the ’90s for Waterworld, Kevin Costner’s flopping wet fish of a blockbuster. In depth plot discussion, Kevin Costner’s casino, ideas for a better film, we dive so deep into Waterworld we come up screaming for air. And a better film. Next week its Chris’ fault we’re watching Knights! What? GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we'...

This week we take the red pill and ask the question: What is The Matrix? In a bumper episode we meticulously work our way through the film, discuss Keanu’s acting ‘style’, moan about how things were better in the ’90s (again), discuss the fast approaching singularity and fill plot holes as fast as Chris can create them. And there’s even time for a quiz! Next week we keep this blockbuster train rol...

Our (late) horror season concludes with science fiction slasher and tenth entry in the Friday 13th franchise Jason X. 400 years in the future Jason is set loose aboard a school/military/research(?) ship and goes about his business killing dudes. We look for the positives in a seriously flawed film and even manage to coax Chris into saying a few nice things. Next week a sci-fi classic- The Matrix!...

This week we continue our horror trilogy and things are getting creepier. Sam Neill and friends go to hell aboard the Event Horizon! We dissect the grisly events that ensue, whilst trying not to remember how scared we were as kids. Next week its Jason X GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acas...

This week Chris hosts as we take a look at Danny Boyle’s Sunshine, the first of a loose (and late) horror trilogy of shows. Disagreement is rife about whether this is a good film, half a good film, or just rubbish all the way through. Does Sunshine have one of film’s worst villains? Does anyone know whats up with Cillian Murphy? And which nation do we manage to accidentally offend this week? All t...

When Air Force One is hijacked and crashes on the prison island of Manhattan only Snake Plisskin can rescue the president! Join us as we discuss John Carpenter’s 1981 cult classic! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Chris is back so we return to the business of ranking films, not trailers. Timecrimes is the latest addition to the list, with Alex hosting as we pull apart the complicated plot that inevitably comes with a time paradox. We also get quizzed on famous crimes, what Americans think about time travel and probably add another country to the list of places we can’t go any more. Next week its E...

For part 2 of our bad film special Sam shows Alex some terrible trailers from the past. Rogue cops, evil frogs, dinosaurs in warehouses and purple monsters, our minds are repeatedly blown before we decide which of these terrible films will be getting the full on SFRS treatment in a future episode. GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter...

Chris is away filming his Alien short film so Sam and Alex take the oppurtunity to indulge their taste for terrible films. In two special episodes we watch a selection of upcoming and old awful looking films, ranking the lot before choosing one to get the proper full show treatment. In Part 1 Alex takes us through a few future classics to look out for in cinemas near you soon. Well, on streaming s...

This week the gang watch George Miller's  Mad Max , a little Australian indie flick that made a lot of money that introduced the world to Mel Gibson, so has a knock against it from the start. Join us as we watch an uneven film that a lot of people think they've seen but perhaps haven't, and try our best to stop Chris starting beef with any more countries/organised crime syndicates. Next...

James Cameron really loves the water, so he made a very expensive film that was very difficult to film so he could become a fish for a few months. The result is The Abyss, a clunky blockbuster that has a lot more issues than its watery setting. Join us as we discuss why no one makes films like this, what’s going on with Cameron’s choking fetish and try and fix the terrible ending. Next week post a...

Remember how great Predator was last week? What a well thought out, tightly scripted and tense action film it was? And remember Predator 2? How it took that formula and transplanted it to a city, adding police procedural stuff and weirdo cults to create some fresh and exciting? Well forget all that because this week we watch Predators, where gruff librarian Adrien Brody leads a group of dull Z-lis...

We’re back with a bang, as we celebrate the release of The Predator by watching Predator, no The required. Join us for an in depth breakdown of John McTiernan’s monster movie classic, as we follow Arnie and a team of ’80s action heroes into the jungle. Awful Arnie impersonations, lots of talk about how great a monster the predator is, and repeated attempts not to consider any of the terrible thing...

This week our accidental dystopian double bill continues with Equilibrium! Christian Bale arrests people for liking art, Sean Bean dies too early and Sean Pertwee lives too long. Next week we get ready for the release of Shane Black’s The Predator with the first of a Predator double bill, er, Predator! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Tw...

IT’S OUR 100TH FILM! And what better film to celebrate than the monochrome miserabilism of Michael Radford’s 1984, yay! Alex hosts as we thoroughly dissect the film breaking occasionally from the misery to take part in an incredibly self indulgent quiz about…ourselves. Next week we watch 1984 again, but through the lens of a hyperactive 14 year old in 2000 – its Equilibrium! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITU...

This week we enter the world of dreams where Dennis Quaid is doing some questionable things to other people. Its the ’80s classic no one remembers, listen to find out a million ways this film could have been better, our exciting plans for a new Quantum Leap and how foxes plague Chris’ dreams. Its another action packed episode of your favourite rating system. Science Fiction Rating System. That one...

This week Chris hosts as we take a look at Robert Zemeckis’ Contact, a very long film with some interesting ideas, good acting and Science. There’s even a quiz! Next week its 1984’s Dreamscape! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For a 2nd year running we celebrate Bug Week with some GIANT ANTS. In a wide ranging episode we dissect the film itself, and also get into projection techniques, an in depth ant quiz, the wonder of a Victorian man in Hollywood and much, much more! Note: We had a bit of technical trouble whilst recording, so if Chris and Sam seem to be laughing for no reason its because Alex sounded like an alien t...

We’re back from summer break and taking a look at Disney’s Treasure Planet, one of the final traditional hand-animated blockbusters from the mouse house, that flopped pretty badly, but is an entertaining (ish) ride. Next week we go all the way back to 1954 for the nuclear monster romp Them! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Inst...