Science Fiction Rating System

This week Chris is so excited for Soylent Green that we struggle to contain him. Listen as Alex and Sam try to keep him in line and talk through the '70s sci-fi classic with a twist as twisty as a ba…

This week it's Battlefield Earth. You've probably heard of it. Travolta. Scientology. White men with dreadlocks. A long tongue. I honestly thought After Earth was the worst film we'd watch this year.…

Last year, way back on episode 82 we watched The Matrix and were all pleasantly surprised how much we still enjoyed it. Who knew it would age so well? Who could have thought we could have so much fun…

Continuing our series of extremely loose tie ins with real world events this week we watch Small Soldiers because Toy Story 4 is out and, er, that has toys in it.

Join us as we watch a film that in ma…

As often happens on SFRS we follow a truly terrible film with possibly a worse one. This week we marvel at the train wreck that is After Earth, surely a career low point for everyone involved. In a f…

What happens when you watch a film only good through the misty lens of nostalgia, but nobody actually has any nostalgia for said film? What happens is we all suffer through Krull, no. 1 fan Colin's q…

The Men in Black franchise is back and currently stinking up cinemas across the globe with it's apparently dreadful fourth entry. Happily, we return to the 1997 original, a happier time when Will Smi…

We return to the realm of '80s nostalgia for a reader's pick, It's Flight of the Navigator! You may remember being traumatised by the idea of losing 8 years of a childhood, but do you remember an ill…

We're back! Sorry about that, real life intervened and we took our annual unschedule break from podding. We return with Tron Legacy our look back at Disney's attempt to resurrect a long dead franchis…

The conclusion of our Godzilla double bill takes us back to 2014 and Hollywood's last attempt to make Japan's greatest export work in America. Chris hosts as we find out what went wrong and went righ…

To celebrate the arrival in cinema's of Godzilla: King of the Monsters we start a double bill of Godzilla films. This week we go all the way back to 1954 with the original film that started the longe…

It's the 2nd annual re-ranking! Every birthday we each get to pick a film we think has been treated unfairly by the list and re-watch and re-rank it! This year Sam chose Predator, Chris chose Indepen…

As The Avengers: Endgame hits cinemas across the world we hop onto some super-heroic coattails and watch the first Marvel team up from way back in 2012.

In a bumper episode we thoroughly pull apart a …

We made it! This week we celebrate 100 episodes of the podcast with a new website and a new look. Still the same old hosts but don't despair, this week we tackle a proper big film, Ridley Scott's cla…

Things go from strange to stranger in part 2 of World on a Wire. As Stiller's mental state unravels so does our understanding of the plot. What is the real world? Which character is called Holm? And …

In a list first we tackle a film so long we had to cut in two. Also it was originally a TV show that was in two parts anyway, so everything worked out OK.

Join us as we watch the film that was The Mat…

Our final film of Nostalgia Season is Chris’ pick, Short Circuit, a film we all thought we remembered a lot more than we did. Listen as we discover that a white actor pretending to be an Indian is fa…

Week 2 of nostalgia season and it’s Sam’s choice, the 1986 animated classic The Transformers: The Movie, a film Sam has been pitching repeatedly since episode 2 of the podcast, and finally we get aro…

It’s the start of nostalgia season! This week Alex plucks a film from his childhood to see if it still holds up, and predictably Arnold Schwarzenegger is involved. In 1987’s The Running Man 2019 is a…

It took half a year for us to expunge the taste of Star Trek V but finally we are ready for more Trek. And it’s even numbered Trek so its good Trek. Nicholas Meyer returns to direct one last hurrah f…