Science Fiction Rating System

This week it's time for some classic '70s disaster action as Sean Connery battles a giant rock hurtling towards Earth. Join us for a suprisingly good Connery impression, a classic Alex quiz, best Bond, Scottish independence hot takes, some top class lamp analysis, a lot of HARD SCIENCE and a CLIFFHANGER! Next week, we very belatedly celebrate Chris' birthday with his film pick, Toys ! Get in touch...

This week we watch a bunch of people have relationship problems on a space ship in indie sci-fi 'drama' Space Station 76 Everyone likes Dr. Bot, no one likes the soundtrack and then we all have a breakdown and talk about the Dune podcast that actually came out last week... Also, we hear about Chris' latest celebrity friends, Alex's latest second-hand celebrity sighting, and Sam's plan to blackmail...

Denis Villenueve's Dune has finally released and so we cling on to some well tailored Atreides coattails and pump out a classic SFRS spoilercast! We're all here, we've all seen the film, and we all have a lot to say. Will everyone actually agree that this is a modern masterpiece? Will we upset fans of the Lynch film again? And just how much of the book will Sam misremember? Tune in for all these a...

WE'RE BACK! 168 weeks ago Sam turned 37 and chose Alita: Battle Angel for his birthday pick! Alex turns up with a binder full of notes, Chris and Sam watched it so long ago they've forgotten the film, and everyone is in agreement that this is a weird, weird film. Also, big James Bond spoilers, eating on the pod, Billie Eilish impressions, Chris reveals what film he recorded an unused theme for, an...

Chris is still in the land of showbiz so Sam and Alex tackle the second half of The Animatrix ! Samurai fights, ghost houses and absolute robot insanity, it's the episode that's got everything. Except a third host. Next week, we're running on fumes. There'll be a show but...just stick with us, okay? Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the new list! Play along at home! Watch us on Youtube! See the...

Chris is off on a super secret shoot so it's left to Alex and Sam to keep this train rolling. With the trailer for The Matrix Resurrection tearing up the internet we take the opportunity to indulge our love of Japanese animation with a two part in depth look at The Animatrix . We run through the first four of the nine shorts and start a brand new ranking list. Next week, the rest of The Animatrix...

Idiocracy is in the news a lot lately, because a lot of people like to write things like "5 ways that Idiocracy predicted the future" and "You won't believe these 11 things Idiocracy got right - number 7's a doozy!" all the while not realising the great irony of the content of said articles and existence of the whole clickbait mill of adverts that passes for 'journalism' these days. Sigh. Anyway,...

Daft Punk split up and eventually we get round to honouring their legacy by watching their arty flick Electroma . Join us for some Daft Punk hot takes, Chris takes up the mantle of Poppins Advocate and Alex is briefly a poet. Next week we remain massively on topic with current zeitgeist favourite Idiocracy . Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the new list! Play along at home! Watch us on Youtube...

M. Night Shyamalan returns to the list with Signs , in which Mel Gibson and family fight off an alien invasion. We discuss the problems with a water-averse alien invading Earth, how asthma works, and try to answer the most important question of all- how long does it take to defrost a chicken? Next week we commiserate Daft Punk splitting up (about 400 days too late) by watching their arty art flick...

Last week's admin controversy spills over into this week's episode as Chris struggles to become our Social Media Officer, and then eventually we talk about Space Jam because a sequel came out about 48 years ago and we're just getting round to it. Elsewhere, Chris recommends a futurist, Alex has got a quiz, and Sam pitches the InsuranceVerse. Despite what we say at the end of the episode, next week...

It's part 2 of our Earth-stopping double bill! This time, Keanu Reeves is playing to his 'strengths' as emotionless blank slate Klaatu and Jennifer Connelly is the most loosely defined scientist we've seen in some time. Join us to learn some maths, find out where the only blue McDonald's in the world is, and what happens to cats when the apocalypse comes. Next week, it's, er, Space Jam . Yup. Get...

Season 3 (or maybe 4?) begins as we reach episode 201 and start a classic remake double bill. This week, it's the 1951 original The Day The Earth Stood Still . Listen as we discuss what olden days people thought about UFOs, how most tropes are older than we think, and the ethics around Alex moving into Sam's caravan park whilst owning a gun. Next week, we see how Keanu Reeves gets on as Klaatu 2 i...

(this episode originally went up 12th May 2019 - it's been rescued from the abyss but put back out of order for boring admin reasons!) Endgame was a big deal, like a really big deal, so we ride Disney's coattails a little further with a spoiler-filled discussion of our thoughts on this year's biggest budget blockbuster. Who knows how we'll feel in five years when we rank it for real, probably arou...

(this episode originally went up 2nd December 2019 - it's been rescued from the abyss but put back out of order for boring admin reasons!) Our winter break is over and we're back from Disney's Make a Wish theatre with our thoughts on the first three episodes of The Mandalorian. Spoilers galore as we give initial thoughts on the series, and also slight spoilers for The Rise of Skywalker because we...

We're back! After weeks of travel and turmoil the three of us finally reconvene to record our 200th episode! 200!? Yes, it's a bit mad. Four years and 6 months after we started we finally have an occasion momentous enough to justify watching the wonderful/terrible Alien³ ! Well, we actually watch the 'Special Edition' (or 'Assembly Room'/'Workprint') version of the film as this one of the few occa...

The countdown to 200 reaches its terrifying conclusion with Chris' pick for favourite film. Sam and Alex finish their nostalgia quizzes, get off topic with Fast & Furious and reveal what film we'll be watching on episode 200! (If this isn't your thing, don't worry - we'll be back with new films from episode 200 onwards!) GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! Buy our Merch...

The countdown to 200 continues with the dark middle chapter of our nostalgia trilogy. Sam and Alex continue their trip down memory lane, fire some quiz questions at one another and then settle down to listen to another classic episode of SFRS! (If this isn't your thing, don't worry - we'll be back with new films from episode 200 onwards!) GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website!...

For the next three weeks we approach our 200th episode with buckets of nostalgia and self indulgence. Sam's moving house and Chris is on holiday so join Alex and Sam for a trip down SFRS memory lane. Behind the scenes gossip, duelling quizzes, and then a rerun of Alex's favourite episode of the pod! (If this isn't your thing, don't worry - we'll be back with new films from episode 200 onwards!) GI...

What does the name Midnight Special bring to mind? A cocktail? A club night? A group activity banned in several countries? Surprise! It's none of those, it's a film about a kid with weird eyes being chased across America by the feds and a cult. Seriously, if anyone knows why this film is called what it is, please let us know. Next week, the start of a double bill of Earth stopping, it's The Day Th...

We make our annual trip back into the world of Star Trek, with Insurrection , the penultimate 'proper' Trek film. Picard and crew are out to thwart the most boring plot in the history of the galaxy, or are they accidentally making things worse? Also, another Star Trek quiz, where you should keep Data's manual and the problem with actors being actors. Next week we watch Michael Shannon and an annoy...

At some point in the past we said we would watch D.A.R.Y.L. and at an unspecified time later someone contacted us and said 'Hey, you still need to watch that film.' Well, we don't know who you were, we forgot saying it, but now we're watching D.A.R.Y.L. Join us as we immediately get wildly off topic with Crocodile Dundee , discuss carnivorous robots, Alex hosts an acronym quiz, and we get blue in...

We emerge from post-lockdown life and consequently get too busy to podcast. But don't worry, we're back, with a film no one has seen, no one wants to see, and no one should see. So, business as usual, then. Next week, D.A.R.Y.L. GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! Buy our Merch! Download the soundtrack! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too!...

It's the future, again, and this time cops are getting trained in a computer by a sadistic AI. What could possibly happen next? Join us as we really go off Russell Crowe, wonder how Brett Leonard keeps getting to make films and marvel that Denzel Washington already had an oscar when he signed on to this... Next week, it's Impostor ! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! Buy o...

These days, kids love battle royale games, like Fortnite and all that. Back when we were young kids loved Battle Royale , an ultraviolent film about 40 schoolkids trying to kill one another. Join us as we take a trip down DVD memory lane, try and work out why anything is happening and play Battle Royale Top Trumps Next week, it's Virtuosity ! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Webs...

Alex is back with another brush with Hollywood, this time interviewing top documentary maker Rodney Ascher about his latest film, A Glitch in the Matrix ! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! Buy our Merch! Download the soundtrack! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.