Science Fiction Rating System

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, …

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 ball…

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 s…

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 fo…

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 breathles…

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 sc…

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 Lovej…

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 - Mctierna…

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 l…

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…

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 ex…

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: Dom…

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 intentiona…

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 t…

We return after an unexpected hiatus with Next, in which Nicolas Cage plays himself, or maybe a clairvoyant magician who seems to share a lot of interests with Mr. Cage. Join us as we try and work ou…

"Maximum thrash."

(apologies if you've got this episode twice, something went haywire on the backend!)

This week we celebrate the 32nd anniversary (weird) of Robocop 2. The first film has been in the t…

This week we reach the tenth and final proper (yeah, I said it) Star Trek film, Star Trek: Nemesis. As is often the case with Trek, it's a bumper episode. Klingon psychological warfare, the worst bad…

This week Sean Connery is sent to Io to sort out a corrupt mining colony, armed with a shotgun and in a bit of a mood. Also, we bring you the only comprehensive breakdown of the music in the club sce…

"Chinese Woman Stares at Matt Damon: The Movie"

This week, America and China throw a load of money at a JOINT VENTURE and end up with The Great Wall, a blockbuster action film with, er, Matt Damon as …

"Big Frack's got involved."

This week we watch a film in which a hyperintelligent black blob is stuffed into a suspiciously old-looking child's monster truck. Also, Chris gives us a science lesson abo…