Would you kill baby Hitler? That classic moral dilemma sits at the heart of The Boys from Brazil (1978), where Gregory Peck’s Josef Mengele pursues a chilling plan to revive the Reich. Adapted from Ira Levin’s Nazi-hunter thriller, the film blends real history with speculative science fiction in unsettling ways. After that, we tackle Das Experiment (2001), a dramatic take on the Stanford Prison Experiment. We talk through how the film captures the terrifying speed at which normal people can be dehumanised, corrupted, and broken by power.

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We’ve been on a little break over the summer, but we're back for a brand-new Future Frontiers episode! In this episode, we catch up on everything sci-fi we’ve been watching (and missing) while the Mad Science series has been on pause.

We chat about the big blockbusters of the summer that we caught - Superman, Jurassic Park: Rebirth, and Fantastic Four – plus horror highlights Weapons and Together. On TV, we get into The Studio, Slow Horses, Upload, and share our first thoughts on Alien: Earth.

Looking ahead, we break down the latest trailers for Tron: Ares (with a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack!), Edgar Wright’s Running Man, Project Hail Mary, Afterburn, and French indie gem Meanwhile on Earth. We also touch on Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited Frankenstein, Yorgos Lanthimos’s new sci-fi project, and the next Skyline sequel.

And to wrap up, we tackle a big listener question: how will AI change the future of sci-fi storytelling?

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Who knew artificial intelligence could get so emotional?

In this bonus compilation, we count down our Top 5 A.I. characters in sci-fi cinema - from HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey to Samantha in Her, the replicants of Blade Runner, and the lovable WALL-E.
Drawn from our archives, these clips explore how A.I. in film has challenged what it means to be human - sometimes terrifying, sometimes tragic and sometimes completely adorable.

If you enjoyed this episode make sure you go back and listen to our previous epsiodes in full:

• Her

• 2001: A Space Odyssey

• Blade Runner

• WALL‑E

• Terminator 2