Science Fiction Rating System

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 McGregor and Scarlet Johansson do their best with Bay's typical brand of complete awfulness, lose count of how many inappropriate product placement deals were signed, and only have to use the censor beep once!

Next week we're watching Logan's Run, check out a trailer here!

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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 game we'd like to live in, and even have time to mention that weird double lightsaber. It's all happening.

Next week it turns out we've gone so long without a Michael Bay film we've got to done again. It's The Island. Will Bay break the top 100 in the list? Find out next week!

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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 much 'weird' and how much 'science' is here. Also we learn a lot about his personal life, Alex has a quiz and Sam had to censor himself several times.

Next week get your bone guns at the ready, it's Existenz!

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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 bag of Twisters twisted around a twisty flagpole. In Twisttown.

Also, we discuss our favourite movie deaths!

Next week, it really is Weird Science, which you may have been expecting this week. Honest.

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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...but maybe not? Listen in as we try and make sense of a spectacular failure.

Next week we return to safer ground with some '80s nonsense, it's Weird Science and here's a trailer!

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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 with a film that seemed so firmly stuck in our pasts?

Well, this week we get to the middle chapter of the Wachowski's trilogy with The Matrix Reloaded. Will lightning strike twice? Are we unfairly remembering the dissapointment we all felt at the time? Is the architect scene actually really, really good? I guess you'll have to listen in to find out.

Next week we follow-up on our After Earth inspired scientology investigation with a look at Battlefield Earth. I mean it's about bloody time, isn't it? Here's a trailer. It's going to be a good one.

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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 many ways feels older than its 21 years, wonder why anyone ever expected a large toy shop to survive in a small town, and reveal how an old man delivering toys foresaw the craft beer revolution of the '00s.

Next week, we question reality, do some kung fu and then talk to Colonel Sanders for half an hour about solipsism. It's The Matrix Reloaded! Watch a trailer here

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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 film with a main actor who can't act and a script that doesn't make much sense, perhaps the biggest crime is that the film is just, well, forgettable? Still, we also discuss scientology, who should be fired into the sun, and stay tuned after the credits for an exclusive song from an unwritten '80s action film.

Next week things hopefully get a little better with Joe Dante's Small Soldiers. I mean, it will get better, it truly couldn't get much worse.

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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 questionable choice for nostalgia sci-fi. Poor acting, poor plot, poor everything, and then even the Poppins Clause rears it's ugly head. Is this the worst week ever? Is The Lawnmower Man finally going to stop propping up the rankings?

Also we've got two quizzes, impromptu financial investigations, dream weddings and more!

Next week it's After Earth! I mean surely that can't be any worse. Surely?

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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 Smith still wore the baggiest clothes he could find, Barry Sonnenfield still made good films, and Rip Torn wasn't dead.

Next week it's Krull. For real, this time.

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