Science Fiction Rating System

WATCH THIS EPISODE IN FULL-ON HD GLORY This week we conclude our introduction to the ground-breaking new Rating System 2.0 with six more rankings. Join us as we test the limits of the algorithm and get our TILT on. And this week, the video worked entirely properly (ish), so join us on YouTube right here for uninterrupted footage of the three of us rating, ranking and going FULL TILT. There's even...

SEE THE FIRST EVER SFRS VIDEO PODCAST HERE! New year, new us! We're back with a bang, starting 2023 with an entirely new list. Join us as we explain how the new science-based ranking system works and as we put the system into practice by ranking six films. It's an admin heavy week, but trust us, it will all be worth it. And if that's not enough, this is also the first ever video version of the pod...

The year is over and tradition dictates that we see out another trip round the sun by reviewing the year that was. Join us as we discuss our high and lowlights of the year, what we're looking forward to in 2023, the 2018 films we'll be watching throughout January, and we conclude by introducing SFRS 2.0 ! A new era is dawning... Thanks for listening throughout the year - we'll see you in 2023! Get...

It's the night before the night before Christmas, and as is tradition we finish the year with a jumbo-sized pod rating a slice of Star Wars - it's Revenge of the Sith ! Join us as we discuss questionable motives, questionable CG, Backstroke of the West , the tragedy (?) of Darth Plagueis, the tragedy (!) of the younglings, and then we reach the end of an era... Next week, it's our annual end of ye...

This week we watch Junior , a film which is actually a checklist of bad scientific practice. Join us as we discuss questionable ethics, Schwarzenegger's career slump, bad CG, the US box office for the Thanksgiving weekend 1994, and a Head of Department with the worst plan of all time. Next week, we return to a galaxy far, far away for our annual festive Star Wars rating - it's Revenge of the Sith...

This week we get to a horror film six weeks after Halloween (as is tradition) and watch Mimic ! Join us for scientifically correct discussions about evolution, impromptu spoilers for The Butterfly Effect, a fake Spaniard exposed, plans for our impending Mimic remake, and the content you've all been waiting for: a quiz about cockroaches. Next week, we watch Junior ! Get in touch! Visit the Website!...

This week, we watch Richard Kelly's follow-up to list darling Donnie Darko , it's Southland Tales ! Go and watch it and then come back. Confused? Fair enough. Join us as we all struggle to explain what the hell is going, get the film wrong, the bible wrong, and generally just blow our minds, and then Sam talks about the comic prequel and everything gets even more confusing. Also, there's impromptu...

This week we watch '60s cult 'classic' Barbarella ! Join us as we discuss the correct payment for repairing a ship, the opportunities for nudity, pre-animal welfare Hollywood, and Mark Hand. Next week, it's Southland Tales! . Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the new list! Play along at home! Watch us on Youtube! See the old list! Download the soundtrack! Buy our Merch! And we're on Instagram &...

This week we watch The Adjustment Bureau , and talk about hats. Lots of hats. Hats hats hats. Also, how bad this film is.  Next week there's less hats in Barbarella! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the new list! Play along at home! Watch us on Youtube! See the old list! Download the soundtrack! Buy our Merch! And we're on Instagram  and Facebook too!   Hosted on Acast. See acas...

This week we continue our impromptu Duncan Jones season with Moon, in which several Sam Rockwells wander around a cheap set. Join us for discussions of clone ethics, film-making on the cheap, and a highly implausible finale. To the film, not the pod. Next week, we're watching The Adjustment Bureau and it's not our fault. Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the new list! Play along at home! Watch...

This week we're trapped reliving the same 8 minutes over and over,as Jake Gylenhaal tries to stop a vague bomb plot in Source Code ! Join us for some Chicago sightseeing, sublimnal donut purchases, Maggie Gylenhall hallucinations, mass confusion about the ending, and much more! Next week, we stay with Duncan Jones for Moon ! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the new list! Play along at home! Wa...

This week, we celebrate the re-emergence of Mario on the big screen with a look at the original Super Mario Bros. movie. Join us for lots of behind the scenes drama, in front of the camera insanity, ample goomba discussion, one host desperate to move on with his life, and another doing a really pretty great Yoshi impression, if I do say so myself. Next week it's Duncan Jones' Source Code ! Get in...

This week, we hit our 250th episode and our 250th film: Starman ! Join us for discussions of scalping dead husbands, raccoon health advice, problematic alien/human relations, and lots and lots of balls. Next week, we watch Super Mario Bros ! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the new list! Play along at home! Watch us on Youtube! See the old list! Download the soundtrack! Buy our Merch! And we'r...

This week it's Chris' birthday pick, arty dystopian love story The Lobster! Join us as we discuss animal preferences, just how arty is too arty, and why the area of your back you can't reach is the secret to true love and companionship. Next week, we celebrate our 250th episode with, er, Starman ! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the new list! Play along at home! Watch us on Youtube! See the o...

This week we welcome special guest host Logan Humphrey to the pod to help us celebrate the 40th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's ET - The Extra Terrestrial . Join us for some legit filmic analysis for once, and the three normal hosts talking about ET's galactic senate commitments, modern cultural nostalgia misery (again), why Christians shouldn't put umbrellas up indoors, and why dog poo is no lo...

It's time for Sam's birthday pick, and it's  The X-Files ! Join us for contractual X arguments, the secret behind the X-Files existence, the birth of Chris' multiverse and an awful lot of Sam breathlessly explaining X-Files lore. Oh, and Agent Bee. Also, if you ever plan to watch the TV series, watch out - this show is full of spoilers for pretty much the entire thing (although Sam hasn't see...

This week Sexy Season starts and stops with the decidedly unsexy weirdo horror film Splice, in which a strange blob of flesh is gross throughout. Join us for the sexiest of topics, like behind the scenes credits chatter, ape/human relation myths busted, a woman who loves a fence, kangaroo second husbands, and lots more! This podcast goes places, and none of them are particularly pleasant.   N...

Bloodsports season finally concludes with Paul W. S. Anderson's remake of  Death Race 2000 , which is just called  Death Race.  Join us as we discuss Statham, Carradine, badly designed prisons, and Lovejoy.   Next episode, we move on from deadly racing to, er, weirdo pervert body horror, with Splice !   Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the new list! Play along at home!...

This week future bloodsports season rolls on with John McTiernan's remake of  Rollerball,  a film that isn't half as interesting as the director's own travails. Wiretaps, bankruptcy and jail - Mctiernan's life story has them all, and this film has...well, none of that and not much else. Still, we discuss the terrible cast, the possibility this is the least cool film of all time, the...

Bloodsport/Futuresport/something Season continues with  Death Race 2000 ! Confusingly released a week before last week's Rollerball it's another slice of dystopian American satire, but this time with less of a stick up its posterior. Next week, we watch the remake of Rollerball , it's, er, Rollerball ! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the new list! Play along at home! Watch us on Youtube!...

This week we commiserate the passing of beloved (?) actor James Caan by watching  Rollerball , the 1975 classic (?) in which corporations rule the world and everyone loves watching a weirdo sport. Join us as we try and work out why anyone does anything, discover the secret origin of Britain's favourite greetings card retailer and learn all about Sam's Hollywood Nice Guy Rating System. Next we...

This week we take a break from ranking for a special episode dedicated to the brand new entry in the Predator  franchise,  Prey ! Alex and Sam, both self-confessed Predator (1 & 2) superfans rank the existing films, take both a spoiler-free and spoiler-filled in-depth look at Prey , and then we have exclusive interviews with Dan Trachtenberg, the director of Prey , and Amber Midthund...

Accidental Andrew Niccol Season concludes with the Niccol-penned but Weir-directed The Truman Show - but first we have an impromptu new film review round up, with Chris' opinion on Jurassic Park: Dominion  review and Sam's hot take on  Brian & Charles . Spoiler: They're both terrible. We're more positive about the main feature, though. Join us as we revel in almost every aspect...

We're back, we've survived the heat, and we're here to continue Accidental Andrew Niccol Season with  S1M0NE ! Join us as we discuss deepfakes, the future of cinema, how much of this film is intentional, we pitch loads of different endings and Gun Machine is born. And there's even time for a quiz! Here's the article about the increasingly backward facing state of Hollywood and music that Sam...

This week, we watch we kick off our accidental Andrew Niccol season with  In Time , a film with a premise so stupid that Chris' brain momentarily breaks, any attempt at a plot breakdown descends into time related madness, and Alex gradually realises this film is not as good as he maybe thought because he's written another hour of material in his own head. Also, Chris has plans for a dark hare...