This week Chris hosts as we take a look at Danny Boyle’s Sunshine, the first of a loose (and late) horror trilogy of shows. Disagreement is rife about whether this is a good film, half a good film, or just rubbish all the way through. Does Sunshine have one of film’s worst villains? Does anyone know whats up with Cillian Murphy? And which nation do we manage to accidentally offend this week? All the answers and more within! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list...
Nov 06, 2018•55 min•Ep. 79
When Air Force One is hijacked and crashes on the prison island of Manhattan only Snake Plisskin can rescue the president! Join us as we discuss John Carpenter’s 1981 cult classic! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 30, 2018•42 min•Ep. 78
This week Chris is back so we return to the business of ranking films, not trailers. Timecrimes is the latest addition to the list, with Alex hosting as we pull apart the complicated plot that inevitably comes with a time paradox. We also get quizzed on famous crimes, what Americans think about time travel and probably add another country to the list of places we can’t go any more. Next week its Escape From New York! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far...
Oct 23, 2018•48 min•Ep. 77
For part 2 of our bad film special Sam shows Alex some terrible trailers from the past. Rogue cops, evil frogs, dinosaurs in warehouses and purple monsters, our minds are repeatedly blown before we decide which of these terrible films will be getting the full on SFRS treatment in a future episode. GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Oct 19, 2018•19 min•Ep. 76
Chris is away filming his Alien short film so Sam and Alex take the oppurtunity to indulge their taste for terrible films. In two special episodes we watch a selection of upcoming and old awful looking films, ranking the lot before choosing one to get the proper full show treatment. In Part 1 Alex takes us through a few future classics to look out for in cinemas near you soon. Well, on streaming services, at least. Jackie Chan in ten films at once, the world’s worst AI voice, Nicolas Cage wander...
Oct 16, 2018•23 min•Ep. 75
This week the gang watch George Miller's Mad Max , a little Australian indie flick that made a lot of money that introduced the world to Mel Gibson, so has a knock against it from the start. Join us as we watch an uneven film that a lot of people think they've seen but perhaps haven't, and try our best to stop Chris starting beef with any more countries/organised crime syndicates. Next week our first Spanish film, its Timecrimes! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See th...
Oct 02, 2018•41 min•Ep. 74
James Cameron really loves the water, so he made a very expensive film that was very difficult to film so he could become a fish for a few months. The result is The Abyss, a clunky blockbuster that has a lot more issues than its watery setting. Join us as we discuss why no one makes films like this, what’s going on with Cameron’s choking fetish and try and fix the terrible ending. Next week post apocalyptic fun with George Miller’s original Mad Max! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit...
Sep 25, 2018•56 min•Ep. 73
Remember how great Predator was last week? What a well thought out, tightly scripted and tense action film it was? And remember Predator 2? How it took that formula and transplanted it to a city, adding police procedural stuff and weirdo cults to create some fresh and exciting? Well forget all that because this week we watch Predators, where gruff librarian Adrien Brody leads a group of dull Z-listers around a fake jungle in a vain attempt to locate the magic that made the original film so good....
Sep 17, 2018•53 min•Ep. 72
We’re back with a bang, as we celebrate the release of The Predator by watching Predator, no The required. Join us for an in depth breakdown of John McTiernan’s monster movie classic, as we follow Arnie and a team of ’80s action heroes into the jungle. Awful Arnie impersonations, lots of talk about how great a monster the predator is, and repeated attempts not to consider any of the terrible things done to the Predator by later entries in the franchise. Next week a look at one of those later ent...
Sep 10, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 71
This week our accidental dystopian double bill continues with Equilibrium! Christian Bale arrests people for liking art, Sean Bean dies too early and Sean Pertwee lives too long. Next week we get ready for the release of Shane Black’s The Predator with the first of a Predator double bill, er, Predator! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 27, 2018•57 min•Ep. 70
IT’S OUR 100TH FILM! And what better film to celebrate than the monochrome miserabilism of Michael Radford’s 1984, yay! Alex hosts as we thoroughly dissect the film breaking occasionally from the misery to take part in an incredibly self indulgent quiz about…ourselves. Next week we watch 1984 again, but through the lens of a hyperactive 14 year old in 2000 – its Equilibrium! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Face...
Aug 20, 2018•1 hr 2 min
This week we enter the world of dreams where Dennis Quaid is doing some questionable things to other people. Its the ’80s classic no one remembers, listen to find out a million ways this film could have been better, our exciting plans for a new Quantum Leap and how foxes plague Chris’ dreams. Its another action packed episode of your favourite rating system. Science Fiction Rating System. That one, yep. Next week, our 100th film: 1984! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! ...
Aug 13, 2018•52 min
This week Chris hosts as we take a look at Robert Zemeckis’ Contact, a very long film with some interesting ideas, good acting and Science. There’s even a quiz! Next week its 1984’s Dreamscape! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Aug 05, 2018•55 min
For a 2nd year running we celebrate Bug Week with some GIANT ANTS. In a wide ranging episode we dissect the film itself, and also get into projection techniques, an in depth ant quiz, the wonder of a Victorian man in Hollywood and much, much more! Note: We had a bit of technical trouble whilst recording, so if Chris and Sam seem to be laughing for no reason its because Alex sounded like an alien trapped in a washing machine for much of the podcast. Luckily, his voice is super sweet and clean for...
Jul 31, 2018•55 min
We’re back from summer break and taking a look at Disney’s Treasure Planet, one of the final traditional hand-animated blockbusters from the mouse house, that flopped pretty badly, but is an entertaining (ish) ride. Next week we go all the way back to 1954 for the nuclear monster romp Them! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Jul 23, 2018•55 min
Our journey through the history of Star Trek on the silver screen reaches its nadir, with William Shatner’s atrocious Star Trek V. Spoilers: We didn’t like it, but of course we didn’t because who does? Join us as we struggle to find a positive, wonder how the Enterprise crew has not been court-martialed by now and try our best to forget Uhura’s dance. Next week a film none of us have ever seen, Old Disney’s forgotten stab at sci-fi relevance Treasure Planet! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in tou...
Jul 11, 2018•1 hr 15 min
This week we stick with comedy and a trip back to the late ’80s, where the clothes were baggy, the music was radical and the casual homophobia was a shock. Join us as we travel through time and wonder did they really does say what we thought they said?? Next week we continue our Star Trek odyssey, biting the bullet watching Star Trek V: The Final Frontier because I guess we have to one day! Lame. GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitte...
Jul 04, 2018•47 min
Following weeks of big serious blockbusters we veer into the realms of ’90s comedy with the film that killed the Muppets for a decade- Muppets From Space! We talk a lot about muppets, answering such hot button issues as our favourite muppet, favourite muppet movie and favourite idea for a muppet tv spin off. Also we spend a long time quoting Renfro the bear. THE GOAT?! Next week we continue to mine the softest of soft sci-fi with Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, watch a trailer here! GIVE U...
Jun 27, 2018•39 min
They say life finds a way and so, like a chaotic fractal blooming into the infinite the SFRS crew finally get back to Jurassic Park, the final of the ‘pilot’ episode films to get a rewatch. This time we each bothered to watch it and so have a lot to say about park safety, the feasibility of a graphics heavy OS, and the concept of Peak Spielberg. GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acast. See...
Jun 20, 2018•1 hr 6 min
This week we watch 2001, chosen by Matt Fitch, co-author of the fantastic new graphic novel Apollo, in stores now! We break down the film, Alex proposes an extra act break, and then when it comes to the all important ranking the pod erupts in all-out war. Not since Ghost in the Shell has a film proved quite so divisive. Will the gang manage to reach a ranking, or is a certain co-host so angry that this is the end of SFRS as we know it? Tune in for more drama than you can probably find in the fil...
Jun 13, 2018•58 min
Westworld is big news again thanks to the HBO series currently airing its 2nd season, but how well does the 1973 original hold up? Is Yul Brynner still terrifying? Is it going to be as painfully slow as most painful sci-fi? And why was Sam so sure the robots had white blood? All these answers and more on this weeks pod! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
Jun 04, 2018•49 min
A new era of Science Fiction Ratings has dawned! From here on in its one film a week, every week, with more hard-hitting analysis, nit-picking and Star Trek references than ever before! To kick off SFRS 2.0 we revisit Indiana Jones’ unfortunate brush with science fiction, contemplate what dirt George Lucas has on Steven Spielberg and put forward a case for this film being responsible for everything that’s wrong with modern cinema. GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See t...
May 21, 2018•51 min•Ep. 58
Hey here’s three films you’ve seen before if you’ve been following along at home! But we just weren’t happy with where they were in the list and Alex is a masochistic who likes Ender’s Game so we watched these three films again, and then argued about where they should be in the list. And then we watch a trailer because Preview Shows are DEAD and we are in the future where we watch one film a week and send your humble podcast editor into a meltdown because we’re recording bits in the future, and ...
May 14, 2018•57 min
Join us for an end of an era, as the last three films of SFRS mark one are reviewed. We head back in time to look at the films we've each selected for our annual re-ranking process. Sam regrets his choice, Alex didn't think his would be so controversial, and Chris doesn't write (or probably read) these introductions and so clearly made a bad choice.We also get into what's changing about the pod, and how YOU can shape the future! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the...
May 07, 2018•13 min
CREATURE FEATURE SEASON CONCLUDES! And we actually manage to get through three films without having to invoke the Poppins Clause. Killer sheep from New Zealand, killer dogs from the US, and batshit Marlon Brando from an island in the South Pacific, this week’s podcast is so explosive the entire pod will never be the same again….DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 30, 2018•50 min
Creature Feature season comes to a triumphant close with our third set of animal based science ficition. This week KILLER BEASTS. From Predator dogs to Marlon Brando in white face paint via killer sheep we preview three films that have something for everyone. Or maybe no one. Watch the trailers below and look forward to some top ranking next week! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acast. S...
Apr 22, 2018•25 min
CREATURE FEATURE SEASON CONTINUES! We put down our copies of Playduck and take Deepest Bluest off the record player long enough to review three fishy tales! The Poppins Clause rears it's ugly head again! No one knows what to make of Howard the Duck! Deep Blue Sea is terrible! Limpet is strange! It's a poor week, but an entertaining one nonetheless. GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acast. ...
Apr 16, 2018•54 min
Creature Feature Season continues with three films of the aquatic persuasion. Join us and watch the trailers for three wildly different films from the sea. Also! Its Alex's birthday so we find out which film will join WALL-E and Ghost in the Shell for a re-ranking in a few week's time! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 09, 2018•23 min
Just when you thought Easter was over SFRS turns up with a trifecta of films about rabbits! One of our better weeks for actually discussing what a film is and how it works (in my opinion), with a smattering of stardust from Chris' latest LA adventures, and then controversy as we come across a film not showing many signs of sci-fi at all...Will the [Poppins Clause](https://www.sciencefictionratingsystem.com/poppins) come in to effect? Find out within! GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visi...
Apr 06, 2018•46 min
Its our 50th episode, yay us! Its also Easter and so we kick off CREATURE FEATURE season with three (loosely) sci-fi films about rabbits. GIVE US 5 STARS ON ITUNES! Get in touch! Visit the Website! See the list so far! And we're on Twitter , Instagram and Facebook too! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Mar 26, 2018•19 min
