Science Fiction Rating System

This week it's time for another listener request, and as usual it seems our fans may have questionable taste. Bicentennial Man is a film in which Robin Williams plays an android with odd obsessions.

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This week Chris dies and goes to heaven as Denise Richards rides an animatronic T-Rex through small town America. Tammy and the T-Rex has all the hallmarks of going straight to the bottom of the list…

Long time listeners know to be scared when the words Star and Trek appear in the title. Yes, it's a long one, almost an hour and half of talk about the seventh Trek film with a bonus bit about Star T…

This week we're watching THX 1138, George Lucas' pre-Star Wars serious business indie sci-fi flick. Join us for the usual plot breakdown, lots of cooing about nice set design and smart editing, and p…

Chris is back from an unscheduled winter break in LA with tales of splashing celebrities and not telling anyone about the podcast. Lucky for him he returned in time to discuss The Visit, the last of …

This week it's Chris' choice of 2015 film to start the new decade, and predictably he's gone for Jurassic World. Alex has plans for a very different sort of JP film, Sam can't get over Quattro and Ch…

It's 2020 which means the strict and important rules of SFRS now allow us to watch films from 2015. So, obviously our first choice is Hot Tub Time Machine 2. Listen as Sam's soul tries to escape his …

The year has ended, 2020 is here and we are starting the new decade remaining on brand by delivering our 2019 wrap up late! Join us as we discuss our highlights of the year just gone, find out who wo…

Continuing our Star Wars christmas we finally get round to finishing the original trilogy with Return of the Jedi. What do ewoks get up to behind the scenes? Why are ewoks 'the death of innocence'? C…

On the night before the night before the night before Christmas SFRS broke into your house, ate your mince pies, drank your brandy and left a little treat for you in your podcast feed. Yes, it's anot…

This week we're watching Doom, the 2005 adaptation of the game of the same name in which a young Rock goes to Mars and no-one turns the lights on or has much fun.

But don't let that put you off, there…

Finally, finally we are pretty much back on schedule and just in time to get to Chris' birthday pick before Christmas! Hurrah! Wait, Independence Day: Resurgence? Really? Oh well.

Chris misunderstands…

For the first of our new format birthday picks we watch Sam's choice, Dune. With Denis Villenueve currently deep into post-production on a big budget remake we return to the 1984 Lynch original to tr…

Almost a year after we watched The Matrix we bite the bullet (time) and finish the trilogy with Revolutions. Is this film as bad as we all remember? Does it make any more sense than it did at the tim…

Arnie said he'd be back, we just didn't realise how often. As the 32nd Terminator film, Terminatrix VII: The Terminating hits cinemas we finally watch the original film, where James Cameron's involve…

(It's been a few weeks, we got lost in time. Bear with us, more regular pods are coming soon)

This week we take a look at Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys in which Bruce Willis goes a bit mad whilst try…

Missed us? After our annual unexpected hiatus we're back with Logan's Run, an unashamedly old-fashioned slice of '70s sci-fi in which the plot is nebulous, the skirts are short, and the robots are ab…

There was a time 2019 felt like the future and not the horribly crushing present, and that time was 2005, when Michael Bay had a go at 'proper' science fiction with The Island. We watch as Ewan McGre…

This week we watch David Cronenberg's head scrambling virtual reality film eXistenZ! Join us as we pause the game long enough to try and work out what exactly is going on, decide on which computer ga…

Weird Science was re-released on blu-ray last month and the good folk at Arrow Films asked us to take a look. Chris has woken up from last week's soporific showing and is here to weigh in on just how…