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Experts and enthusiasts competitively collaborate in the creation of screen-centric ”best of” lists. Hosted by draft commissioners Clay Keller and Ryan Marker. ”Most impeccable taste in guests.” – Entertainment Weekly
The podcast Screen Drafts is created by Clay Keller and Ryan Marker. The podcast and the artwork on this page are embedded on this page using the public podcast feed (RSS).
Screen Drafts Booster Club Official Sponsor Eric Darling brings together All-Stars Chris Feil (This Had Oscar Buzz) and Katey Rich (The Ankler, Prestige Junkie) to rank the 7 best films from the career of Oscar-winning Golden Age director VINCENTE MINNELLI!
Colors of the Dark hosts Elric Kane and Dr. Rebekah McKendry are back at the draft table together for the first time in over a year, competitvely / collaboratively ranking the 7 best INTERNET HORROR movies ever made! Joining Clay and Ryan at the commissioner's table is producer / actor / editor Matt Mercer!
See Elric's new film (produced by Matt and Executive Produced by Rebekah) THE DEAD THING beginning Friday, February 14th on Shudder!
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The marvelous finale of COPPOLA MONTH finds veteran GMs Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones), Drew McWeeny (The Hip Pocket, The Last '80s Newsletter You'll Ever Need) and Joanna Robinson (The Ringer) ranking picks #12 to #1 on the single, definitive, ranking of the 24 feature films of FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA!
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Next week: the INTERNET HORROR Draft, with Elric Kane & Rebekah McKendry
Join us in Brewton Stew-dios as Screen Drafts Legends Ryan Marker and Billy Ray Brewton competitively collaborate in ranking the 7 best non-Francis / non-Sofia films released by Francis Ford Coppola's company, AMERICAN ZOETROPE.
Next week: FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA SUPER DRAFT: PART TWO with Drew McWeeny, Bryan Cogman, and Joanna Robinson!
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Coppola Month continues with PART ONE of the six GM / 24 title FFC SUPER DRAFT! Ryan is joined at the Draft Table by Blake Howard (One Heat Minute Productions) and Roxana Hadadi (NY Mag, Vulture) to competitively / collaboratively rank 24-13 on the list of Coppola-directed films. Filling in for Ryan at the commissioner's table is Bryan Cogman, who will be returning as a GM on PART TWO of the draft in a couple of weeks!
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Join us as Commissioner Clay shares a status update from Los Angeles, then enjoy a very special peek into the madness that occurs in the Screen Drafts Booster Club as Clay and Ryan rank the 5 (as of NoVENOMber) films in the SONY SPIDER-MAN-ADJACENT Franchise.
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Coppola Month begins with Oriana Nudo (Hollywood-ography) and Dane McDonald (Chasing Chalamet) facing off for the first time, ranking all 8 feature films written and directed by Oscar winner SOFIA COPPOLA!
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1999 is generally considered one of the best movie years in the history of the medium, so to celebrate the 25th anniversary of that storied time we reunited the hosts of Podcast Like It's 1999, Kenny Neibart and Phil Iscove, with PL99 fan-favorite guest Carrie Wittmer, and Screen Drafts commish Ryan Marker, to competitively / collaboratively rank the 13 BEST movies that were released in 1999. Joining Clay at the commissioners table is first time guest commish Jordan Crucchiola!
Every Kristmas Eve the Screen Drafts Commissioners sit down at the draft table to celebrate the work of a personal favorite filmmaker or actor. This year they are joined by guest commish Bryan Cogman to competitively / collaboratively rank the five films written and directed by the singular WHIT STILLMAN!
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Join Clay and Ryan, and guest commissioner Bryan Cogman, as they rank the five films nominated for Best Picture at the 48th Academy Awards, held in 1976: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Dog Day Afternoon, Nashville, Barry Lyndon, and Jaws. Did the Academy get it right the first time, or should a different film have been crowned as the Best of 1975? Listen and find out!
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Angie Han (The Hollywood Reporter) and Liz Shannon Miller (consequence.net) return to the virtual draft table to competitively / collaboratively rank all 9 feature films written or written and directed by CHARLIE KAUFMAN! Also joining us is Patreon Official Sponsor Mark Rozeman (The Good Doctor), with a terrific trivia round!
Check out Mark's "Kaufman Collage" here: https://vimeo.com/1036145999
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Screen Drafts Hall-of-Famer Clarke Wolfe and rookie Samm Levine join us at the draft table to talk about their Thanksgiving set horror film Fiendsgiving and rank the 7 best HORROR films set on a (non-Christmas and non-Halloween) HOLIDAY!
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All train tracks have led to this: the THRILLING conclusion of the ALFRED HITCHCOCK MEGA DRAFT! Clay and guest commish Drea Clark (Maximum Film) are joined by GMs Ben Mankiewicz (TCM's The Plot Thickens and Talking Pictures), Maureen Lee Lenker (His Girl Hollywood) and Oriana Nudo (Hollywood-ography) for picks #10 to #1 on the definitive "Master of Suspense" Top 30 list.
This concludes HITCHCOCK / TRUFFAUT Month, thanks for listening! Coming in January... COPPOLA Month!
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Marya E. Gates returns alongside Clay Keller, Ryan Marker, and guest commissioner Billy Ray Brewton for the epic conclusion to the FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT SUPER DRAFT, ranking films #11 to #1 on the single, definitive, best-of list!
Next week brings the grand finale of HITCHCOCK / TRUFFAUT Month, with Oriana Nudo, Maureen Lee Lenker, and Ben Mankiewicz ranking the Top 10 films directed by Alfred Hitchcock!
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The epic ALFRED HITCHCOCK MEGA DRAFT continues in PART TWO, as Mark Harris (Pictures at a Revolution, Five Came Back, Mike Nichols: A Life), Adam B. Vary (Variety) and Screen Drafts Legend Darren Franich (The Draftland Scene) take over the middle of the list, ranking films #20 to #11!
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Hitchcock / Truffaut Month continues with PART ONE of the FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT SUPER DRAFT! Veteran GM Marya E. Gates joins Clay and Ryan to make picks 21-12 on the definitive ranking of the work from one of the architects of the French New Wave. Leading the festivities as guest commish is Screen Drafts Legend Billy Ray Brewton!
HITCHCOCK / TRUFFAUT Month commences with PART ONE (picks 30-21) of the long, long, long-awaited ALFRED HITCHCOCK MEGA DRAFT. Joining us to build the foundation of the list are newly-minted Screen Drafts All-Star William Bibbiani (Critically Acclaimed Network), author Walter Chaw (A Walter Hill Film), and newly-minted Screen Drafts LEGEND Drea Clark (Maximum Film)!
In two weeks: PART TWO with Mark Harris, Darren Franich, and Adam B. Vary
SCREAM Drafts 2024 comes to a shocking conclusion as Screen Drafts Legend Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) is joined by B.J. Colangelo (This Ends at Prom) and Chris Hewitt (Empire Magazine) to rank the 13 (oooo scary) best HORROR films made by HAMMER studios in the CLASSIC era!
It's week three of SCEAM Drafts VII and out-of-towners Josh Larsen (Filmspotting) and Joe George (Den of Geek) broke down in Draftland, so we tied them to the draft table and made them rank the 7 best RURAL HORROR films ever made!
In week 2 of SCREAM Drafts 2024, Justin LaLiberty and Samm Deighan of Vinegar Syndrome return to rank the 7 best EROTIC HORROR films!
SCREAM Drafts VII kicks off with "best friends" Billy Ray Brewton and Kyle Anderson ranking the 7 best horror films from the year 1977!
Literacy Month comes to an end as Team This Had Oscar Buzz (Chris Feil & Joe Reid) squares off with Team Vanity Fair Refugees (Joanna Robinson & Katey Rich), competitively / collaboratively ranking the 7 best movies about BOOKSTORES and LIBRARIES!
Returning GMs Katie Walsh and Louis Peitzman join us for the next chapter of Literacy Month, ranking the 7 best films adapted from the works of the Talented Ms. Highsmith!
Daniel Fienberg (The Hollywood Reporter), Alan Sepinwall (Rolling Stone), and Linda Holmes (NPR), are back at the draft table, this time joined by Jen Yamato (The Washington Post), for the next installment in their journey through the history of SPORTS in cinema! Up at bat: the 1990s!
Literacy Month continues with screenwriters Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) and Milla Bell-Hart (Bad Monkey) ranking the best films ever made from the work of acclaimed crime writer ELMORE LEONARD! Joining Clay at the commissioner's table is Screen Drafts legend and writer of The Draftland Scene, Mr. Darren Franich.
An adventure 4 years in the making! To kick off Literacy Month, Commissioner Clay is joined by newly minted Screen Drafts All-Star Darrin Navarro, Screen Drafts Legend Billy Ray Brewton, and guest commissioner Bryan Cogman (also a Screen Drafts Legend) to rank all 22 films directed, written, or adapted from the works of the prolific master of the science thriller, MICHAEL CRICHTON!
Co-authors of LOST: Back to the Island, Emily St. James (Yellowjackets) & Noel Murray (The New York Times, The A.V. Club), rank the 7 best films ever made about CASTAWAYS!
Rookies Bilge Ebiri and Brandon Streussnig join Screen Drafts vet Roxana Hadadi to competitively / collaboratively rank all 13 films directed by the Master of Dudes Rock Cinema, MICHAEL MANN!
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the films of 1994 and we are celebrating with some of our favorite guest GMs, Hall-of-Famer Drew McWeeny, Legend Billy Ray Brewton, and near-Legend Drea Clark, ranking the 13 best films released in that exceptional year! Joining them at the draft table are commissioners Clay and Ryan, and Booster Club Official Sponsor Frank Berman!
Former retail warriors Bethy Squires (Vulture) and Mia Lee Vicino (Letterboxd) join Clay and Ryan at the Draft Table to rank the 7 best films ever made about living in RETAIL HELL!
Welcome to Draftland, where frenemy arthouse cinema operators Clay and Ryan program competing 4-film movie marathons using titles drawn from classic Screen Drafts episodes! Today, they are using the JERRY BRUCKHEIMER draft list to curate the most explosive and enticing marathons that members of the Booster Club have ever seen! Which marathon will YOU attend? Listen, then vote!
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It's the kickin'-est, punchin'-est, splitsin'est draft of the year, as Screen Drafts rookies / Action Boyz Jon Gabrus and Ryan Stanger join commissioner Clay and guest co-commish Drew McWeeny (The Last '80s Newsletter You'll Ever Need) for a competitive / collaborative ranking of the 7 best films starring The Muscles from Brussels!
Movie podcasters / authors Jordan Morris (Youth Group, Free with Ads) and Elliott Kalan (Disney's Hercules, The Flophouse) go head-to-head at the virtual draft table, ranking the 7 best films about SUPERNATURAL KIDS! Joining Clay as co-commissioner is movie podcaster / author Alonso Duralde (Hollywood Pride, Maximum Film).
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Screen Drafts Vintage Veterans Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones), Maureen Lee Lenker (It Happened One Fight) and Oriana Nudo (Hollywood-ography) are back at the draft table, ranking the 13 best films from one of the greatest years in Hollywood history: 1939.
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Colleagues and Screen Drafts veterans Adam B. Vary and Angelique Jackson (Variety) rank the 7 best films from the career of two-time Oscar nominee ANGELA BASSETT!
Our Pride Month celebration concludes with an epic mini-MEGA draft of the 11 best films ever made about LESBIANS, with Screen Drafts veterans Emily St. James (Podcast Like It's), Libby Hill (Yellowjackets) and Jordan Crucchiola (Feeling Seen)!
Screen Drafts All-Stars Joe Reid (This Had Oscar Buzz, Cinematrix) and Louis Peitzman ("Please watch Twelve") help us celebrate Pride Month with a ranking of the 9 best films from the filmography of director JOEL SCHUMACHER!
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of The Bentonville Film Festival, Screen Drafts Legend Billy Ray Brewton, and Screen Drafts Drea (and Bentonville Artistic Director) Drea Clark join us at the Draft Table to rank the 7 best films from the career of festival founder GEENA DAVIS!
Filling in for Ryan as co-commish is Hollywood Pride author Alonso Duralde!
Join guest GMs Kris Tapley (The 50 MPH Podcast) and Ash Crossan (Entertainment Tonight) as they rank the 7 best films to ever win Hollywood's most prestigious honor: the MTV MOVIE AWARDS BEST KISS AWARD!
Screen Drafts vets Marc Bernardin, Dave Schilling, and Darren Franich reunite in person (!) at the Aero Theater to competitively / collaboratively rank all 10 films in the decades-spanning The Planet of the Apes franchise!
All Stars Phil Iscove (Podcast Like It's 1992) and Dana Schwartz (Noble Blood, Anatomy: A Love Story) go head-to-head for the 4th time, ranking the filmography of actor / producer NATALIE PORTMAN!
Newly minted Screen Drafts Hall-of-Famer Jordan Crucchiola (Feeling Seen) joins Screen Drafts Legend Darren Franich to rank the 7 best films that were booed by audiences at the Cannes Film Festival!
Vinegar Syndrome's very own Justin LaLiberty ("stuff") and Samm Deighan ("stuff," Twitch of the Death Nerve Podcast) join us to rank the 7 best films released by physical media label Vinegar Syndrome in its first ten years of existence! Joining them are Screen Drafts Booster Club Official Sponsor Jason Ruvaldt, and guest co-commish Drew McWeeny (The Hip Pocket Podcast).
Stars of the upcoming horror anthology Tenants, Clarke Wolfe & Fayna Sanchez, join the draft table to rank the 7 best feature HORROR ANTHOLOGIES ever made, with commissioner Clay and guest co-commish B.J. Colangelo (This Ends at Prom).
Film critic / author Walter Chaw (A Walter Hill Film) and film critic / podcaster William Bibbiani (Critically Acclaimed Network) rank the 7 best films ever made about where we go after we die!
Empire Magazine colleagues Chris Hewitt (The Empire Film Podcast) and Nick de Semlyen (The Last Action Heroes) join the draft table for the first time, collaboratively ranking the 7 best ACTION SEQUELS ever made!
Screenwriters Brian Duffield (Spontaneous, No One Will Save You), Mike Makowsky (Take Me, Bad Education), and Liz Hannah (The Post, Long Shot) rank all ten feature films with scripts written by the singular AARON SORKIN!
Co-commissioner Ryan Marker and newly-minted Screen Drafts All-Star Lucé Tomlin-Brenner (It's Always Halloween) rank all eight feature films directed by the late great Lynn Shelton! Joining Clay at the commissioner's table is Screen Drafts "Drea" Drea Clark (Maximum Film).
Fresh off awards season, Jacqueline Coley (rottentomatoes.com) and Erik Anderson (awardswatch.com), rank the seven best films from the career of legendary two-time Oscar winner JODIE FOSTER!
Brian Collins (Horror Movie A Day) and Penny Cox (Reacher, FUBAR) rank the 7 best HORROR films released in the year 2009!
Hall of Famer Rebekah McKendry (Glorious) takes on Legend Graham Skipper (The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine) yet again, this time ranking the 7 best HORROR MUSICALS ever made! Joining the draft table are Patreon Official Sponsor Jason Ruvaldt, and guest co-commish B.J. Colangelo (This Ends at Prom).
Screen Drafts rookie Katie Walsh (The Los Angeles Times, Miami Nice) joins Screen Drafts Hall of Famer Drea Clark (Bentonville Film Festival, Maximum Film) and Screen Drafts Legend Billy Ray Brewton (Make Believe Film Festival) to rank the 20 best films of the year 2023 with Screen Drafts commissioner Clay Keller (Screen Drafts)!
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Join Clay, Ryan, and Darren Franich as they attempt to rank the 5 films of the INDIANA JONES Franchise!
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Get ready for a Kingcast x Screen Drafts epic crossover event, as Kingcast hosts Scott Wampler and Eric Vespe, and fan-favorite guests Wynter Mitchell and Louis Peitzman, sit down at the virtual draft table to rank the top 13 best features adapted from the work of The King of Horror!
It's Aussie vs. Kiwi as Blake Howard (One Heat Minute Productions) and Elric Kane (Pure Cinema Podcast, Colors of the Dark) competitively / collaboratively rank the Top 7 OZPLOITATION films! Joining us Down Under are "Official Sponsor" Patron Chris Owens, and guest co-commish Alexei Toliopoulos!
Special thanks to Chris for supporting the show and picking this rough and rowdy topic!
LIVE (virtually) from Seattle Queer Film Festival '23 it's critic / author Kyle Turner (The Queer Film Guide) & filmmaker Juan Barquin ranking the Top 7 best QUEER COMEDIES ever made!
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Scorsese Month comes to an epic conclusion as Roxana Hadadi (Vulture), Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones), and Oriana Nudo (Hollywood-ography) complete the month-long ranking of all 30 Martin Scorsese feature films by placing the Top 10 in order from #10 to #1!
It's week 4 of SCORSESE MONTH, and Team Maximum Film, hosts Drea Clark and Ify Nwadiwe, and frequent guest Inkoo Kang (The New Yorker), join us at the draft table to rank the 11 best films produced, but not directed, by Martin Scorsese!
The SCORSESE SUPER DRAFT continues, with guest GMs Katey Rich (Vanity Fair), and This Had Oscar Buzz's Joe Reid & Chris Feil reuniting at the draft table to make picks #20 through #11. Joining Clay at the commissioner's table is PART ONE GM Phil Iscove (Podcast Like It's 1992), to provide context, color commentary, and contrition for what occurred in PART ONE.
It's week 2 of SCORSESE MONTH, and we are turning our attention to a group of films that are near and dear to Marty's heart: the films that have been restored by the World Cinema Project, and released on DVD and Blu-Ray by The Criterion Collection. Marya E. Gates (RogerEbert.com) returns to the draft table to rank the top 7 "best" of these films with co-commissioner Ryan Marker, while Drew McWeeny (the upcoming The Hip Pocket podcast) joins Clay as guest co-commissioner.
Scorsese Month on Screen Drafts begins with the past and current hosts of the Podcast Like It's... podcast franchise, Phil Iscove, Kenny Neibart, and Emily St. James, making picks #30 to #21 on the all-encompassing MARTIN SCORSESE SUPER DRAFT!
In two weeks the Super Draft continues, with Joe Reid, Chris Feil, and Katey Rich making picks #20 to #11.
It's Kristmas Eve, and we're celebrating in true Screen Drafts fashion, by inviting Thomas Grabinski (The Olivier Assayas Super Draft, Irma? Yep!) over to help us rank the 13 best films starring one of our favorite actors: the legendary Juliette Binoche!
Screen Drafts rookies Jordan Morris (Youth Group, Jordan, Jesse, Go!) and Gina Ippolito (New Rockstars, Knowing is Half the Podcast) to rank the 7 best ACTION MOVIES starring actors who have qualified for membership in the AARP!
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Chief TV Critics Alan Sepinwall (Rolling Stone) and Daniel Fienberg (The Hollywood Reporter) are back ranking a decade of SPORTS films, this time focusing on the 1980s, and this time with Linda Holmes (Pop Culture Happy Hour, Flying Solo) joining the squad!
A Screen Drafts tradition continues! As their season on entertainment legend Judy Garland comes to a close, Hollywood-ography hosts Oriana Nudo and Maureen Lee Lenker join us at the draft table to rank her 7 best films!
It's the grand finale of Animation Month! We are joined again by GMs Rebekah McKendry (Colors of the Dark) B.J. Colangelo (This Ends at Prom), Dane McDonald (Chasing Chalamet), and Louis Peitzman (Vulture, The New York Time) to finish what they started: the DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS MEGA DRAFT! In PART TWO, they competitively / collaboratively rank picks 13-1, and crown the #1 best feature film made during the first 100 years of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Animation Month takes a hard left turn as Harmony Colangelo (This Ends at Prom) and William Bibbiani (Critically Acclaimed Network) rank the entire feature filmography of the brazenly original alternative animation legend, Ralph Bakshi! Joining as co-commissioner is Screen Drafts Legend Billy Ray Brewton.
100 years. 61 animated feature films. 1 groundbreaking animation studio.
Four returning Screen Drafts vets, Rebekah McKendry (Colors of the Dark), B.J. Colangelo (This Ends at Prom), Dane McDonald (Chasing Chalamet), and Louis Peitzman (The New York Times, Vulture) celebrate the centennial anniversary of Walt Disney Animation Studios by collaboratively ranking the 26 best feature films produced by the company in its 100 year history! In Part One, our guest GMs rank picks 26-14. In two weeks they will return to rank picks 13-1!
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Animation month 2023 kicks off with Adam B. Vary (Variety) and Joe Reid (This Had Oscar Buzz) ranking all 10 feature films directed by animation legend Don Bluth!
The infamous "Freddy vs. Jason" GM panel is reunited (er, resurrected) to rank the 13 HALLOWEEN films in the horrifying conclusion to SCREAM Drafts VI!
SCREAM Drafts VI continues as rookie Megan Amram (Parks & Rec, The Good Place) joins veterans Ben Mekler (Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Night) and Walter Hollmann (The Silver Screening Room) to rank all 10 of the films in the nearly twenty year old SAW franchise!
We take a brief break from #SCREAMDraftVI to bring you writer / critics Matt Singer (Opposable Thumbs) and Jordan Hoffman (themessenger.com) ranking the 7 best films that received the dreaded "two thumbs down" from Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert!
SCREAM Drafts VI continues into its second spooky week with veteran GMs Morgan Peter Brown (The Dungeon Run) and Wynter Mitchell (Waiting to X-Hale) ranking the 7 best HOME INVASION films ever made!
SCREAM Drafts VI kicks off with best friends in the world Kyle Anderson (Entertainment Now on Sirius XM) and Billy Ray Brewton (Make Believe Film Festival) ranking the 7 best films produced by the Hollywood Horror Heavy Hitters over at BLUMHOUSE!
It's Screen Drafts' 2nd annual 25th anniversary celebration! Guest commissioner Bryan Cogman takes over the show as Clay joins an illustrious GM panel, including author Karen Tongson, screenwriter Helen Shang, and development exec Thomas Grabinski, to rank the 13 best films released in the year 1998!
Newly minted Screen Drafts All-Stars Piya Sinha-Roy and Devan Coggan rank the 7 best films from the filmography (both acting and directing) of billion dollar filmmaker GRETA GERWIG!
Screen Drafts veterans Drew McWeeny, Drea Clark, and Billy Ray Brewton have been brought to the draft table by "Official Sponsor" Patron Frank Berman to rank the 11 best films ever made about the Vietnam War!
Arthouse cinema operators Clay and Ryan program competing KRISTEN STEWART movie marathons using titles from the original K-Stew draft list in the second episode of Screen Drafts Presents: The Marathon. Find episodes three and four of The Marathon, as well as over 100 other bonus episodes from other series, on the Screen Drafts Patreon page!
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Screen Drafts rookies Kyle Turner (The Queer Film Guide: 100 Great Movies that Tell LGBTQIA+ Stories) and Juan Barquin (writer & film programmer) join the draft table to rank the 7 best QUEER CRIME films ever made!
Writers Emily St. James and Libby Hill return to the virtual draft table to rank the 7 best movies ever made about COUNTRY MUSIC!
Screen Drafts veterans Eva Anderson and Clarke Wolfe meet for the first time to rank the 7 best directorial debuts from established screenwriters, in a draft concieved by Patreon Official Sponsor Mark Rozeman, who also joins us for the trivia!
Seasoned drafters (but first time Screen Drafts guest GMs) Ian Karmel and Sean Jordan (All Fantasy Everything) competitively / collaboratively rank the 7 best films starring Casamigos founder George Clooney!
Dave's back! Nearly two years after the controversial JAMES BOND draft, Dave Schilling has returned to Screen Drafts, this time ranking the best super hero films from the 1990s with / against Screen Drafts legend Darren Franich.
Screen Drafts rookies Andy Levy (The New Abnormal) and Mike Ryan (Uproxx) meet for the first time, literally, to rank the 7 best ever 5th films in a series!
Screenwriters and WGA members Liz Hannah and Kenny Neibart rank the 7 best movies ever made about labor unions / labor strikes, amidst the WGA & SAG strikes in the summer of 2023!
It Happened One Fight author Maureen Lee Lenker is joined by her podcast co-host Oriana Nudo (Hollywood-ography) and Screen Draft Legend Bryan Cogman to rank the 11 best Screwball comedies of the classic ('30s-'50s) era!
Newly minted Screen Drafts All-Star Marc Bernardin joins Philadelphia's favorite son Ryan Marker to rank all 9 of the films in the Rocky / Creed franchise! With guest co-commissioner Billy Ray Brewton!
First time guest GM Mallory Rubin (The Ringer), joins the draft table to competitively / collaboratively rank the 13th best HARRISON FORD films with Screen Drafts veterans Joanna Robinson (The Ringer), her House of R co-host, and near-legend Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones)!
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This week's draft has been delayed to later in the summer, so we are unleashing onto the main feed one of the most controversial Franchise mini-SUPER Drafts in the history of the Screen Drafts Patreon, the "Modern Mummy" Draft!
Screen Drafts veterans Adam B. Vary (Variety) and Jordan Crucchiola (Feeling Seen) go head-to-head for the first time, ranking the 7 best Queer films ever released by major Hollywood studios. With guest co-commissioner Joe Reid (This Had Oscar Buzz)!
Guy Branum (Platonic on Apple+) earns the title of "Screen Drafts All-Star" as he returns to the draft table to competitive/collaboratively rank the films of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant with/against his longtime friend, and Screen Drafts Hall of Famer, Drea Clark (Maximum Film)!
Screen Drafts Presents The Marathon, the podcast where rival arthouse cinema operators Clay and Ryan program competing movie marathons on a common theme, drawing titles from a classic Screen Drafts list. In the pilot episode, Darren Franich joins us as we figure out the rules of the game, name our nascent cinemas, and create our very first competing movie marathons, using the infamous Screen Drafts TIME TRAVEL list!
After the episode, Screen Drafts Patrons can go to patreon.com/screendrafts to vote for which marathon they would rather attend!
Next week we return to our regular programming with the MERCHANT / IVORY draft.
Screen Drafts veterans Louis Peitzman and Oriana Nudo meet for the first time, ranking the 7 best JUKEBOX MOVIE MUSICALS ever produced!
Rookie guest GM Jen Yamato (The Los Angeles Times) joins veterans Piya Sinha-Roy and Darren Franich to competitively / collaboratively rank the top 13 best films from the combined filmographies of noted competitive collaborators Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Vin Diesel.
Author / cartoonist Ryan Estrada and radio host / producer Eric Plese join the virtual draft table all the way from South Korea to rank the 7 feature films directed by Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho! With guest co-commissioner Drea Clark (Sundance Film Festival, Maximum Film podcast).
Recorded LIVE for Skyline Indie Film Festival 2022, Maria Lewis and Drea Clark rank the 7 best films released in the year 2012! Featuring special guest Billy Ray Brewton.
Screen Drafts rookie Liz Hannah (Long Shot, The Girl From Plainville) joins All-Stars Joe Reid (This Had Oscar Buzz) and Kenny Neibart (Podcast Like It's 1999) to rank every single feature film adapted from the writing of JOHN GRISHAM!
Marya E. Gates (ThePlaylist.net, Rogerebert.com) and Billy Ray Brewton (The Incinerator, Make Believe Film Festival) join the virtual draft table for our first ever draft focused entirely on documentaries -- the MUSIC DOCS DRAFT!
Dana Shwartz (Noble Blood) and Phil Iscove (Podcast Like It's 1992) are back for round 3 of their actress draft series, this time competitive / collaboratively ranking the filmography of Oscar winner ANNE HATHAWAY!
Recorded LIVE at Fantastic Fest 2022, director Brea Grant, actor Clarke Wolfe, and podcaster / film festival director Billy Ray Brewton rank the 9 best films ever made about robots, androids, and A.I.!
Don't trust anyone as Bryan Cogman (writer, Game of Thrones) and Darrin Navarro (editor, Killer Joe, Bug) rank the top seven CONSPIRACY THRILLERS released in the 1970s!
All aboard! Join us as screenwriting duo Ben Mekler & Chris Amick (Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight, Die Hart 2) sit down at the virtual draft table to trank the 7 best movies set on TRAINS! Next stop: excitement!
Grab your hooded cloak and gather around the sacrifical altar, because director Anthony DiBlasi and actor Clarke Wolfe from the upcoming film Malum are here to rank the 7 best films about CULTS!
What were the 20 best films of 2022? Emily St. James (writer, podcaster), Jacqueline Coley (Rotten Tomatoes), and Drea Clark (Maximum Film, Independent Spirit Awards), have joined us to determine just that!
Mitchell Beaupre and Slim from Letterboxd sit down at the virtual draft table for the first time, collaboratively ranking the 7 best films that have won Best First Feature from the Film Independent Spirit Awards!
Chucky experts Louis Peitzman (Vulture, N.Y. Times) and B.J. Colangelo (Slashfilm, This Ends at Prom) go head-to-head for the first time, ranking all 8 Chucky / Child's Play feature films!
Sam Wineman and Jordan Crucchiola (hosts of the Aughtsterion Podcast) join us at the draft table to rank the best OBESSION THRILLERS ever made! Will this list be as copacetic as their last, or are the gloves about to come off?!
Tre'vell Anderson and Mikelle Street rank the 7 best Black Queer films ever made! Find Mikelle's writing in The New York Times, GQ, and more, and pre-order Tre'vell's book We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film now!
Recorded live (virtually) for Seattle Queer Film Festival 2022!
Screen Drafts' STEVEN SPIELBERG MONTH comes to a thrilling and emotional close as Wynter Mitchell (Waiting to X-Hale), Adam B. Vary (Variety) and Lucé Tomlin-Brenner (It's Always Halloween) rank the Top 11 Steven Spielberg films in Part Three of our STEVEN SPIELBERG SUPER DRAFT.
Guest commissioner Bryan Cogman takes the reins for the epic conclusion of the STEVEN SPIELBERG PRODUCED MEGA DRAFT, with Team Disaster Girls, Team Podcast Like It's 1999, and Team Screen Drafts!
We're halfway through #SpielbergMonth, and the tension continues to mount as Roxana Hadadi (Vulture), Angelique Jackson (Variety), Billy Ray Brewton (Make Believe Film Festival), and the Screen Drafts Patrons rank the next 12 Steven Spielberg films from the remaining list of 23 eligible titles!
Steven Spielberg Month continues with Part One of the STEVEN SPIELBERG PRODUCED MEGA DRAFT! Three podcast duos, Jordan Crucchiola & Amanda Smith (Disaster Girls), Phil Iscove & Kenny Neibart (Podcast Like It's 1999), and Clay Keller & Ryan Marker (Screen Drafts) play in teams to rank the 20 best films produced, but not directed, by Steven Spielberg! In Part One, they rank films #20 to #11, with Quizard Darren Franich (EW.com) popping in to proctor the trivia!
He is one of the most successful and influential filmmakers in history, and his filmography is by far the most requested Screen Drafts topic. And now, at long last, we are tackling the films of STEVEN SPIELBERG, and doing so in spectacular fashion: with a three-part SUPER DRAFT, featuring 9 of our very best guest GMs. First up is PART ONE, with Drew McWeeny (The Last '80s Newsletter You'll Ever Need), Drea Clark (Maximum Film), and Darren Franich (Entertainment Weekly) making picks 34-24.
Merry Kristmas from Screen Drafts! To celebrate this blessed holiday, Clay and Ryan rank the 9 best films from the filmography of everyone's favorite Irishman, Mr. Colin Farrell! With a special appearance by Screen Drafts' Quizard Darren Franich.
The holidays on Screen Drafts are ho-ho-horrifying as The Leech director Eric Pennycoff, and star Graham Skipper, rank the 7 best CHRISTMAS HORROR films ever made, and one lucky listener wins a blu-ray prize back from Arrow Video!
Screenwriters Helen Shang (Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) and Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones), rank the 7 best feature film adaptations of the Arthurian Legends! With guest co-commissioner Joanna Robinson (The Ringer).
Oscar experts Joe Reid & Chris Feil (This Had Oscar Buzz), and Katey Rich (Little Gold Men) create a list of the 13 best films from directors whose previous effort was awarded the Best Picture Academy Award.
"Phase 4" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has come to a close, and so we've assembled an expert group of guest GMs to rank not only the theatrical features included in this MCU cycle, but, for the first time (and only time) ever... the TV shows too! We are joined by Chancellor Agard, Devan Coggan, Louis Peitzman, and Adam B. Vary for this bold, and perhaps foolhardy, experiment...
The hosts of Hollywood-ography, Oriana Nudo and Maureen Lee Lenker, invite silverscreeningroom.com's Walter Hollmann to join them in ranking the 11 best films from the career of their season 2 subject, Paul Newman.
Ryan and Billy Ray get the chance to re-do their lost TEACHER MOVIES draft, thanks to Patreon Official Sponsor Frank Berman! Will the list look the same as it did three years ago?!
They (almost) share a name, but do they share the same opinions about the work of one of the greatest filmmakers of all time? Darren Franich (Entertainment Weekly) and Darrin Navarro (editor, Killer Joe, The End of the Tour) finally square off, ranking the top 7 films directed by the legendary AKIRA KUROSAWA.
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SCREAM Drafts 2022 comes to a terrifying conclusion as Wynter Mitchell (Waiting to X-Hale), Renée Bever (Queer for Fear), Patrick Hamilton (Kill By Kill) and the spirit of April Wolfe (Black Christmas) rank the 13 best horror movies ever made about high schoolers!
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This week, the HANNIBAL Franchise mini-Super Draft is escaping from the confines of the Patreon to give you a *taste* of what happens behind the Screen Drafts Patreon paywall! Featuring an appearance from Darren Franich as the Quizard!
They're (Patrick Bromley of F This Movie and Elric Kane of Colors of the Dark) heeeerrrrreeee to rank the 7 best films from the filmography of horror auteur Tobe Hooper!
SCREAM Drafts 2022 continues with the team behind Shudder's GLORIOUS (director Rebekah McKendry, writer David Ian McKendry, and producer Morgan Peter Brown) ranking the 11 best HORROR COMEDIES ever made!
#SCREAMDrafts2022 gets off to a terrifically terrifying start as Billy Ray and Kyle reunite for their FIFTH Scream Draft, ranking the horror films of A24.
Genuine real life friends Phil Iscove (Podcast Like It's 1999) and Dana Schwartz (Noble Blood) reunite to rank the 7 best films starring Kirsten "Kiki" Dunst!
We fully embrace the "old timey bullshit" as Jason Sheridan (Podcast: The Ride) and Eva Anderson (WeCrashed) rank the 7 best CON ARTIST movies of the 20th Century!
The King of the Monsters finally gets its due as Graham Skipper ("The Ultimate Guide to the King of the Monsters"), Beth Accomando (Cinema Junkie Podcast), Drew McWeeny, (The Last '80s Newsletter You'll Ever Need) and Toshi McWeeny rank the 13 best films featuring the world's most recognizable atomic monster!
Podcaster/filmmaker/video store clerk Lucé Tomlin-Brenner returns to the draft table to rank the 7 best films by luminary of the French New Wave Agnes Varda, with co-commish Ryan!
Screenwriters Scott Reynolds (Dexter, Jessica Jones) and Blake Masters (2 Guns, Brotherhood) rank the 7 best films by "bloody" Sam Peckinpah! With guest co-commissioner Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones).
Please enjoy this special SNEAK PEEK at the wonderful things happening on the Screen Drafts Patreon! In this draft, Drew McWeeny faces off against the Screen Drafts Patrons (via proxy Dave Schilling) ranking the 7 best films released during the fabled summer of 1982.
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Hollywood-ography hosts Oriana Nudo and Maureen Lee Lenker rank the best ever director "Swan Songs." Joining the draft table are guest co-commish Walter Hollman, and Patreon Official Sponsor Mark Rozeman!
Veteran guest GM Marc Bernardin (Fatman Beyond) is joined by Kevin Avery ("The Great North") and Jacqueline Coley (Rotten Tomatoes) to rank the 11 best films starring two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington!
Joanna Robinson (The Ringer) and Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) reunite to draft best films adapted from the works of The Queen of Mystery, Agatha Christie!
Merry Christmas (in July)! We've gotten you a wonderful present: four of the most passionate HALLMARK CHRISTMAS movie fans / experts ranking the 12 best films of the genre! Joining the draft table for this joyous task are Alonso Duralde (Maximum Film), Rachel Wagner (Hallmarkies), Dory Benford (All the Feels) and Daniel Thompson (Deck the Hallmark).
It's a Game of Thrones reunion as John Bradley ("Samwell Tarly") and Bryan Cogman (writer, producer) rank the 7 best films about, or starring, The Beatles!
Kate Hagen (The Black List) and Drew McWeeny (The Last '80s Newsletter You'll Ever Need) rank the 7 best mainstream films to be released with an X, NC-17, or Unrated designation.
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Director Brian Duffield (Spontaneous) and development executive Thomas Grabinski rank the seven films that Steven Soderbergh has made since he announced his retirement in 2013!
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Joe Reid and Chris Feil (This Had Oscar Buzz) are back, and this time they've brought along Luis Rendon and Gavin Mevius from The Mixed Reviews! Their task? To rank all 21 films that have received the dreaded "F" CinemaScore!
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Author Mark Harris (Mike Nichols: A Life) and journalist Adam B. Vary (Variety) rank the 7 best directorial debuts of the 1990s!
Billy Ray Brewton (Three Dollar Bill Cinema, The Incinerator) and Jason Shawhan (The Belcourt Theatre) help us celebrate Pride 2022 by drafting the filmography of the controversial and groundbreaking legend, Mr. John Waters!
For our first annual 25th Anniversary mini-MEGA Draft Katey Rich (Vanity Fair), Wynter Mitchell (Waiting to X-Hale), and Kristy Puchko (Mashable) join commissioner Clay to rank the 13 best films released in 1997! With guest co-commish Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones)!
Liz Shannon Miller (Consequence) and William Bibbiani (Critically Acclaimed Network) hit the floor to rank the 7 best DANCE movies ever made!
Chief Television Critics Alan Sepinwall (Rolling Stone) and Daniel Fienberg (The Hollywood Reporter) face off for the first time, collaboratively ranking the 7 best SPORTS films of the 1970s!
In space, no one can hear you competitively collaborate! Jenelle Riley (Variety) and Graham Skipper (Sequence Break) rank the 7 best horror films set in outer space, with Clarke Wolfe (FearHQ) joining Clay at the commissioner's table.
Auteur April 2022 draws to a close with Bryan Cogman and Darren Franich drafting the filmography of one of the fiercest auteurs in Hollywood history!
Writer / directors Scott Beck & Bryan Woods (A Quiet Place, Haunt) and Jonathan Baker & Josh Baker (Kin) collaboratively rank every single feature film directed by the mysterious M. Night Shyamalan!
On special release from the Patreon In-Memoriam Emporium, it's the RICHARD DONNER draft, with Bryan and Billy Ray!
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Franks Dietz & Woodward are back, following up their '50s SCI-FI draft with a draft of the films featuring the work of stop motion pioneer RAY HARRYHAUSEN!
Recorded LIVE (virtually) for Skyline Indie Film Fest 2021, Drea Clark ("Maximum Film") and Simon Abrams (rogerebert.com) rank the 7 best films directed by Penelope Spheeris! With guest co-commissioner Billy Ray Brewton.
Anna Bogutskaya (The Final Girls podcast) and Jordan Crucchiola (Disaster Girls podcast) rank the 7 best female-led action films of the last 22 years!
The Oscars are this week, which means it's time for the always controversial and thrilling Best of the Year draft! This 2021 edition features guest GMs Drea Clark (Maximum Film!), Billy Ray Brewton (The Incinerator), Oriana Nudo (Hollywood-ography) and commissioner Clay Keller. Joining Ryan at commissioner's table is guest co-commish Alonso Duralde (Maximum Film!, The Wrap).
Aussie comedians / podcasters Alexei Toliopoulos & Cameron James (Total Reboot, Finding Drago) join commissioner Clay and guest co-commish B.J. Colangelo (This Ends at Prom) to rank the 7 best movies ever made by the Happy Madison production company!
Filmmakers Rebekah McKendry and David Ian McKendry return to Screen Drafts to rank the 7 best movies about Crocodiles and Alligators!
Commissioner Ryan joins Screen Drafts veterans Marc, Clarke, and Devan to rank all 18 feature films about The Caped Crusader and/or the Man of Steel! Filling in for him at the commissioner's table is Darren Franich.
Lawyers Larry Zerner (Friday the 13th: Part 3) and Marc Calderaro ("I Feel Attacked") rank the best movies ever set in a court of law!
Chancellor Agard (Entertainment Weekly) and Derek Lawrence (The World's #1 Hitch Fan) rank the 7 best Will Smith movies ever made!
Angelique Jackson (Variety) and Carla Renata (The Curvy Film Critic) rank the 7 best movies ever made about Black romance! With guest co-commissioner Wynter Mitchell (Waiting to X-hale)!
Alan Sepinwall ("Rolling Stone") and Linda Holmes ("Pop Culture Happy Hour") rank the best films ever made about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration!
Screenwriter Evan Dickson and literary manager Jarrod Murray draft the best movies ever made about screenwriting! With guest co-commissioner Phil Iscove!
"Live" from Fantastic Fest 2021, Clarke, Graham, and Billy Ray competitively rank the 11 best ALIEN INVASION movies of all time!
Podcast co-hosts / wives B.J. Colangelo & Harmony Colangelo ("This Ends at Prom") rank the 7 best PG-13+ animated feature films ever made!
We kick off the Screen Drafts' "Year of the Auteur" (maybe, no promises) with Oriana and Ryan ranking the films of 7-time Oscar winner Billy Wilder!
Billy Ray takes the hosting reins as Clay and Ryan celebrate Kristmas Eve with a draft of the films of actor/director REBECCA HALL.
Happy Hall-idays everyone!
Screenwriter and comedian Guy Branum returns to the show to rank the best films ever made about the British Royal Family with Chris Schleicher ("Saved by the Bell"). Joining the discussion is guest co-commissioner Bryan Cogman ("Game of Thrones").
The first couple of culture writing, Emily VanDerWerff (Vox) & Libby Hill (IndieWire), join us to rank the 7 best "Christmas-Adjacent" movies ever made!
Our friends from Podcast Like It's 1999, Phil Iscove and Kenny Neibart, rank the 7 best "worst" pictures from the Golden Raspberry Awards dubious 40 year history.
DCOM experts Ash Crossan (Screen Rant) and Sarah Sterling rank the 7 best Disney Channel Original Movies ever made, with Dane McDonald (Chasing Chalamet) filling in for Ryan as guest co-commissioner!
Adam B. Vary and Alicia Lutes rank the 7 best films ever released nationwide on Thanksgiving weekend!
LIVE (virtually) from Seattle Queer Film Festival 2021, "This Had Oscar Buzz" hosts Joe Reid and Chris Feil rank the 7 best Oscar Winning films that feature queer themes or characters. With guest co-commissioner Billy Ray Brewton!
Nobody does it* better than Dave Schilling, Bryan Cogman, Piya Sinha-Roy, and Drew McWeeny!
*Rank films 13-1 on part two of the epic JAMES BOND SUPER DRAFT
Bonus #SCREAMDrafts2021! Scott Reynolds (Dexter: New Blood) and Andrew Furtado (Severin Films) rank the 7 best movies about serial killers!
59 years. 25 (or... 26) movies. 6 actors. 1 draft. 2 parts!
In Part I of the James Bond Super Draft, GMs Phil Nobile Jr., Dave Schilling, Piya Sinha-Roy, and Bryan Cogman competitively rank picks 26-14 of the classic spy series.
Part 2, with picks 13-1, coming next week!
#SCREAMDrafts 2021 comes to a shocking conclusion with Clark Collis (You've Got Red on You), Clarke Wolfe (Fear HQ), and Darren Franich (EW) ranking the 13 best ZOMBIE movies ever made!
Halle Kiefer (Ruined) is at the draft table for her first horror-themed topic, drafting the 7 best MAD SCIENTIST films with #SCREAMDrafts regular Graham Skipper (Down in the Basement)!
The longest-running Screen Drafts tradition continues, as Kyle Anderson (Entertainment Now) and Billy Ray Brewton (Scripts Gone Wild) return to the #SCREAMDrafts table for the 4th time, to rank the 7 best movies produced by the erstwhile Dimension Films!
Drafter up! Amanda Smith (Disaster Girls), Kenny Neibart (Podcast Like It's 1999) and Billy Ray Brewton (Movies with Gravy) rank the 11 best films ever made about the great American pastime!
With guest co-commissioner Bryan Cogman.
#SCREAMDrafts 2021 kicks off with Colors of the Dark co-hosts and Screen Drafts Hall of Famers Rebekah McKendry and Elric Kane drafting the best BODY HORROR movies ever made. But there's twist: only ONE film by David Cronenberg is allowed to make the list!
Jim Branscome (Cinematic Void) returns to rank the 7 best Canadian Exploitation films with genuine Canadian Breanna Whipple (heavyhorror.com)!
Dino-ficionados Andrew Roebuck (Triassic Park Podcast) and Steven Ray Morris (See Jurassic Right, My Favorite Murder) competitively rank the 7 best movies ever made about DINOSAURS!
Podcasters extraordinaire Blake Howard (One Heat Minute) and Alexei Toliopoulos (Finding Drago) rank the 7 best Australian films of the 21st Century! Our very first internationally recorded draft!
True Austen-ites Maureen Lee Lenker (EW) and Joanna Robinson (Vanity Fair) rank the 7 best films adapted from, inspired by, or about in some fashion the celebrated novelist.
Stallone vs. Schwarzenegger vs. Willis. Three epic filmographies with over 200 eligible titles. Guest GMs Marc Bernardin (Picard, Fatman on Batman) Jordan Crucchiola (Aughtsterion, Disaster Girls), Wynter Mitchell (Waiting to X-Hale), and Drew McWeeny (The Last '80s Newsletter You'll Ever Need) competitively create the SINGLE, DEFINITIVE top 20 list from the biggest action stars in the history of Hollywood.
The Burt Gummer Appreciation Society (Harmony Colangelo of This Ends at Prom and Billy Ray Brewton of Movies with Gravy) convenes to rank all 7 of the motions pictures in the Tremors franchise, with special guest co-commissioner Joanna Robinson (Vanity Fair)!
The draft that Ryan has been patiently waiting for since day one has finally arrived.
Co-hosts Clarke Wolfe and Dylan Guerra (The Walking Dead Universe) go head to head LIVE (virtually) at Frightening Ass Film Fest, drafting the filmography of the late great Wes Craven!
It's Kristmas in July! With the Twilight movies hitting Netflix, we thought it might be fun to bring our raucous mini-Super draft out from behind the paywall for all to hear! If you like what you hear and want to hear more, sign up at patreon.com/screendrafts
Screen Drafts legends Bryan Cogman and Drea Clark go head-to-head for the first time, drafting one of the greatest years in cinema history! Draft topic selected by "Official Sponsor" patron Mark Rozeman, who also joins as guest trivia master!
Kevin Costello (Brigsby Bear) and Thomas Grabinski (Watching Movies at the Bar) return to the in-person draft table to competitively rank the 7 "best" movies adapted from video games!
The Storm Podcast co-hosts Neil Miller (Film School Rejects) and Dave Gonzales (Fighting in the War Room) make their Screen Drafts debut, drafting the best LegaSequels (sequels made 10+ years after their predecessor) ever!
The hosts of Hollywood-ography (Oriana Nudo & Maureen Lee Lenker) celebrate the end of their Natalie Wood-centered first season with a draft of her seven best films!
LIVE (virtually) from Panic Fest 2021 it's Graham Skipper and Dr. Rebekah McKendry ranking the 7 best films from the HELLRAISER franchise! Also joining us in the pleasurable pain is guest producer Adam Roberts!
...and now, the thrilling conclusion! Alan Sepinwall ("Rolling Stone") and Drew McWeeny ("Formerly Dangerous") follow up their TV Adaptations draft by drafting the best films that made the jump from the small screen to the big with their original casts, AKA Continuations.
Log on with Kristy Puchko and Angie Han as they rank the 7 best movies ever made about world wide web!
Clay and Ryan are joined by their old friend Darren Franich to competitively rank the 13 films in the 20th Century Fox X-MEN franchise, with guest commissioners Adam B. Vary and Alicia Lutes!
Kate Hagen (The Blacklist (not the James Spader show)) and Jen Johans (Watch With Jen podcast) join the draft table to rank the filmography of the one and only JAMES SPADER!
Robert Butler III and Andres Cabrera ("The Meaning Of" podcast, "First Cut" on Youtube) rank the 7 best directorial debuts that hit screens between 2010-2019!
The Shakespeare draft trilogy comes to an epic conclusion! Joanna Robinson (Vanity Fair) and Maureen Lee Lenker (Entertainment Weekly) both return for this final installment, drafting the best "Shakespeare adjacent" films ever made with Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) and Graham Skipper (Dementia: Part II).
(Shakespeare Adjacent = Loose adaptations, movies about Shakespearean performers, movies about W.S. himself)
Author Mark Harris (Mike Nichols: A Life, Five Came Back) and veteran guest GM Adam B. Vary (Variety) draft the 7 best movies ever made about its rival medium: television!
The hosts of This Had Oscar Buzz (Chris Feil & Joe Reid) are back to draft movies that actually WON Oscars! The Oscar for Best Actress, specifically, and only in the 21st Century. In a narrow field that is positively smattered with classics, which 7 will rise to the top?!
Pull on your whitest tank top and hit "play" on this rip-roarin' draft of the 7 best slasher films released between 2000-2009 with Aughtsterion hosts Jordan Crucchiola and Sam Wineman!
The 20 best of 2020, drafted by some of our most battle-hardened guest GMs: Angelique Jackson (Variety), Drea Clark (The Untitled Ify, Drea, and Alonso Project), Billy Ray Brewton (Movies With Gravy) and commissioner Ryan Marker!
Alamo Drafthouse LA's Anam Syed and Rachel Walker rank the 7 greatest films ever made about "Best Female Friends Forever!"
The First Cow director may have been overlooked by the Oscars, but she's getting the full Screen Drafts Super Draft treatment that she deserves! Which is better, if you think about it! Returning GM Lucé Tomlin-Brenner (Need to Watch, It's Always Halloween) joins commissioner Ryan to rank all 7 of the auteur director's feature films.
Screenwriters Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) and Milla Bell-Hart (Truth Be Told) reunite to rank the seven best films ever made about Private Detectives!
Cali boy Darren Franich joins native Minnesotans Drea Clark and Clay Keller to draft the 11 best films from the Land of 10,000 Lakes! Taking over co-commissioner duties alongside Ryan is another favorite son of the Northland, film programmer and executive director of Images Cinema Doug Jones.
Boom! The hosts of Podcast Like It's 1999, Phil Iscove and Kenny Neibart, draft the best films from the audience-friendly and incredibly influential filmography of Hollywood super producer Jerry Bruckheimer!
The guys behind "George Lucas Talk Show," actor Connor Ratliff (also of Dead Eyes) and producer Patrick Cotnoir, join the draft table to competitively rank the six films directed by George Lucas! Wondering what happens with the seventh slot? Let's just say things get a little... wild.
Let them (filmmaker Graham Skipper and Horrible Imaginings Film Festival founder / director Miguel Rodriguez) FIGHT! What are the seven best movies that feature either King Kong or Godzilla or both?! Listen and find out!
Veteran drafters Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) and Drew McWeeny (Formerly Dangerous) meet for the first time, ranking the best Disney Live Action Adventure films from the "classic" era ('50-'80).
It's Showtime! Join us as returning GMs Dave Schilling and Ricky Carmona draft the seven best films from the career of the legendary Eddie Murphy!
Guy Branum is back, this time joined by his former Pop Rocket co-host Wynter Mitchell (Waiting to X-Hale), to competitively rank the 7 best films starring everyone's favorite floppy-haired Brit, Hugh Grant!
To celebrate Valentine's Day 2021 we assembled two horror filmmaking couples and had them compete as TEAMS, a Screen Drafts first! Chelsea Stardust and Sean Keller (All That We Destroy) and Andrew Merrill and Beth Crudele (Rot) go head-to-head, ranking the best horror films ever made about romantic relationships!
Elric Kane (Pure Cinema Podcast, Colors of the Dark) and Patrick Bromley (F This Movie!) rank the 7 best films produced or distributed by the Cannon company over the course of its 20+ years of existence!
Singer / songwriter Kay Hanley (Josie and the Pussycats) joins Dave Holmes (Esquire) and filmmaker Matt Mercer to draft the 11 best films ever made about fictional bands or musicians!
Horror experts / collaborators / spouses Rebekah & David McKendry draft the 7 best horror films that take place on or in water!
Director Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) and podcaster David Chen (Culturally Relevant) competitively rank the 7 best films from the career of the singular John Woo! Cue the doves!
BenDavid Grabinski (Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Happily) and Morgan Peter Brown (The Dungeon Run) take Screen Drafts to the Danger Zone.
Joanna Robinson (Vanity Fair) joins Bryan and Graham for the second installment of their trilogy of drafts focusing on the cinematic adaptations of the works of William Shakespeare.
PART II covers theatrical feature films, released between 1989-2020, that use the Bard's original text.
Clay and Ryan invite Thomas Grabinski to join their Kristmas Eve 2020 festivity of drafting every* feature film by French auteur Olivier Assayas!
*available on home video
Bryan Cogman and Pat Driscoll draft the seven best adaptations of Charles Dickens' classic tale!
If you're able, please donate to the charities highlighted by Bryan and Pat on the episode: My Friends' Place (myfriendsplace.org) & The Marcia P. Johnson Foundation (marshap.org)!
Drea Clark (Who Shot Ya?) saddles up with Darren Franich (EW.com) and Billy Ray Brewton (Scripts Gone Wild) as the sun sets on their epic, year-long, trilogy of Western mini-Mega drafts. For Part III, they rank the 13 best traditional Westerns released between 1993-2020.
Drew McWeeny (Formerly Dangerous) is back at the draft table, this time with his ol' pal Alan Sepinwall (Rolling Stone), drafting the seven best films ever adapted from television shows!
Halle Kiefer returns to draft the best films starring the stars of the television show Friends with her Ruined podcast co-host Alison Leiby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)!
On 11/22/95, Disney released Pixar's Toy Story, forever changing the animated film landscape. On 11/22/20, Screen Drafts forever changed the podcast landscape with our PIXAR SUPER DRAFT. Griffin Newman (Blank Check, The Tick), Adam B. Vary (Variety), Angelique Jackson (Variety), and Dane McDonald (Chasing Chalamet) competitively rank all 22 features films made by Pixar during its first 25 years of existence.
Filmmakers / Franks Frank Dietz (Shudder's "Creepshow") and Frank H. Woodward (Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown) visit the human planet earth to draft the 7 best science fiction films from the 1950s!
The hosts of This Had Oscar Buzz (Chris Feil & Joe Reid) sashay up to the virtual draft table and rank the best fictional films ever made about DRAG!
Hail to the Chief! Writer and comedian Guy Branum goes head-to-head with our very own Ryan Marker, drafting the 7 best films about the President of the United States (real or fictional)!
SCREAM Drafts 2020 comes to a terrifying conclusion with Jim Branscome (Cinematic Void) and Alfonso Carrillo (Rendevous LA) drafting the top 7 nasties films on the Thatcher government's "Video Nasties - Prosecuted Films" list!
ALIEN. PREDATOR. SCOTT WAMPLER (The Kingcast). ANGIE HAN (mashable.com). BRIAN COLLINS (Horror Movie A Day). Whoever wins... we WIN!
For their 3rd annual SCREAM Draft match-up, Billy Ray and Kyle tackle the broad subgenre of HORROR REMAKES!
We open the gates of Scream Drafts 2020 with Rebekah McKendry (Nightmare University) and Elric Kane (Pure Cinema Podcast) drafting the filmography of Italian shock master Lucio Fulci!
Clay and Darren are not from around here as they draft the 7 best "Florida Crime" movies ever made! Along for the gator tour are Ryan, assuming the host role, and guest co-commissioner Walter Hollmann (a Florida native)!
Thus begins Bryan and Graham's epic three part journey through the entire history of William Shakespeare on the silver screen!
In PART I, Maureen Lee Lenker (EW.com) joins the lads to draft the 11 best films released theatrically from 1927-1988 that use the original Shakespeare text in their adaptation.
Two of Screen Drafts' most passionate guest GMs, Dave Schilling (Full Court Chat) and Jordan Crucchiola (Disaster Girls, A Simple Podcast) go head-to-head, drafting the filmography of the "king of the 90s," WESLEY SNIPES!
Get in, we're going on a road trip (draft) with Dave Holmes and Matt Mercer! Don't forget to use the restroom first!
And now, the epic conclusion!
Recorded LIVE for the Chattanooga Film Festival on May 24, 2020
LIVE from the (virtual) Chattanooga Film Festival 2020, it's part one of the epic 70s HORROR MEGA DRAFT, with Clarke Wolfe, Chelsea Stardust, Graham Skipper, Billy Ray Brewton, and Beezlebub the CFF demon!
Originally aired May 23, 2020
Enjoy a little taste of what can be found every month over on the Screen Drafts Patreon feed -- Clay and Ryan drafting the 5 films in the Jurassic Park / World franchise, with trivia from Darren and Billy Ray!
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The dark second chapter in this epic trilogy finds old arch-rivals Darren and Billy Ray doing battle with co-commissioner Ryan, drafting the 13 best Westerns released between 1964 and 1992. Stepping in a guest co-commissioner is Bryan Cogman, doing his damndest to help Clay keep all these gunslingers in line.
Writer/podcasters Dana Schwartz ("She Hulk," Noble Blood) and Phillip Iscove ("Sleepy Hollow," Podcast Like It's 1999) draft the seven best films from the classic-laden filmography of Gen X queen Winona Ryder!
Entertainment Weekly colleagues (and friends) Christian Holub & Devan Coggan draft the best films adapted from comic books that AREN'T about superheroes!
The con is on! Comedians / writers / actors / podcasters Ify Nwadiwe (Who Shot Ya?) and Demi Adejuyigbe (The Good Place) draft the seven best movies about the confidence trick!
Veteran sketch comedy performers Henry Zebrowski (The Last Podcast On the Left) and Graham Skipper (Sequence Break) draft the seven best films that celebrate the form!
The guys behind the Critically Acclaimed podcast network, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold, draft the seven best films about the animal kingdom fighting back!
ROCK ON with filmmakers / metalheads Rebekah McKendry and Dave Parker as they draft the seven best "Heavy Metal" films ever made!
Because it's 2020 (ugh) audiences will not be flocking to the multiplexes to enjoy Hollywood's hottest summer releases this 4th of July holiday weekend. So Adam B. Vary (Variety) and Alison Willmore (Vulture) thought it would be fun to indulge in some summer nostalgia by looking back and ranking the 7 best films that opened on Independence Day weekend between 1979-2019.
We'll show you the life of the mind! Bryan Cogman guest commissions as Clay and Ryan embark on what is not only the first two-GM Super Draft, but also the first director filmography Super Draft: the films of Joel & Ethan Coen.
First time guest GM Jordan Cruccihola (Vulture, The Disaster Girls) and veteran guest GM Drea Clark (Who Shot Ya?) draft the 7 best "Mistaken Identity" movies ever made! If a tease in the episode description will encourage you to listen, then consider this: something UNPRECEDENTED happens during this episode!
May we have your attention, please? Attention please! Theatre degree holders Bryan Cogman and Ryan Marker go head-to-head for the first time, drafting the musical films of the 1960s, while Oriana fills in for Ryan next to Clay at the commissioners table on this delightful episode!
In part one of their trilogy of Westerns mini-Mega drafts, Billy Ray and Darren invite director Jared Moshe (THE BALLAD OF LEFTY BROWN) to draft the 13 best Westerns released from 1927-1963.
Death to Screen Drafts! Long live the new flesh! Returning guest GM Drew McWeeny ("Formerly Dangerous") and first timer Brian Duffield (writer of Underwater, and the upcoming Spontaneous) draft the seven best films by DAVID CRONENBERG!
Actor/podcaster Griffin Newman (The Tick, Blank Check) and director/podcaster J.D. Amato (My Brother, My Brother, and Me, 12 Hour Day) are nearly as enthusiastic about their friendship as they are about the work of singular genius Jim Henson. What will happen when they need to competitively collaborate on ranking the definitive "best of" list of his films? Listen and find out!
Veteran guest GMs / real life best buds Oriana and Maureen draft the seven best films that depict the relationship between a mother and a daughter!
Vanity Fair colleagues and Little Gold Men co-hosts Joanna Robinson and Katey Rich draft the seven best films about "brief encounters!"
Author Bethy Squires (Drunk History) and comedy writer Jocey Coffman (Lovett or Leave It) draft the 7 best "camp" films that have been unleashed on the world since the year 1990!
The two former co-hosts of the Vidiots Video Store Show draft one-on-one for the very first time, ranking the eclectic and delightful filmography of one of the most prolific directors of modern times. With trivia from Patreon "Official Sponsor," and selector of the draft topic, Cody Downs!
Get out of the house (figuratively) and go on and audio adventure with old Screen Drafts frenemies Billy Ray and Graham, drafting the best "Kidventure" films of all time!
Listen here, see? Veteran guest GMs Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) and Maureen Lee Lenker (Entertainment Weekly) go head-to-head drafting the films made during the first full decade of talkies from the studio that pioneered them!
Recorded via the safety of the internet.
Re-Animator: The Musical co-stars Graham Skipper and Brian Gillespie draft the films of their friend and collaborator, the late, great, Stuart Gordon!
Veteran Screen Drafts guest GM Dave Schilling brings in comedy writer Halle Kiefer to draft the cinematic contributions of legendary comedy kingmaker and mega producer Lorne Michaels!
(Recorded remotely during the time of Corona)
Clay and Ryan brave the wasteland to record an episode about the best POST-APOCALYPSE films (from a safe social distance, of course)!
Legendary Swedish actor Max Von Sydow passed away earlier this month, and Screen Drafts favs Bryan Cogman and Billy Ray Brewton wanted their first face off to be honoring his legacy. Originally recorded as a Patron exclusive, but, you know, circumstances!
Recorded at Cogman Studios in Sherman Oaks, CA
Steve Berg (Earwolf's "Voyage to the Stars," Netflix's "Hoops") returns to draft films about the Cold War with co-commissioner and color commentator Ryan Marker!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Filmmaker Joe Begos (Bliss, VFW) and his frequent collaborator / Screen Drafts veteran Graham Skipper draft the 7 best horror films released in 1992!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Returning guest GM Drea Clark (Who Shot Ya?) and comedian / former video store manager Lucé Tomlin-Brenner (You Need to See This) draft the best "One Crazy Night" movies of all-time!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Monster lovers Frank Dietz (Shudder's "Creepshow"), Kimmy Shields (Netflix's "Insatiable") and Aaron LaPlante (Cartoon Network's "Primal") draft the 11 best films from the classic Universal Monster canon!
(draft begins around 27:00)
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Oriana and Rance (of the "Serious Kids" draft) return to determine the greatest films ever made about vacationing in Europe!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Clay and Ryan are joined by Screen Drafts favorites Billy Ray and Oriana to draft the 20 best films of the year 2019 -- possibly our most epic draft to date. And keep an ear out for a special appearance from Graham Skipper during the trivia section!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Guest commissioner Bryan Cogman takes the conn as Marc Bernardin (Carnival Row, Castle Rock) and Darren Franich (EW.com) join Clay and Ryan in drafting the films of the 50+ year Star Trek Franchise! Providing color commentary and halftime analysis are Dave Schilling and Adam B. Vary.
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Shock Waves co-hosts Elric Kane and Dr. Rebekah McKendry return to the draft table for our most colorful and killer-full draft to date!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Team Aero (co-commissioner Ryan Marker and his assistant manager Zoe Zelkind) drafts the filmography of 2020 Oscar nominee and Hollywood legend Laura Dern! Oriana Nudo joins the table as well, filling in as guest co-commissioner and color commentator.
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
The living draft! Devan Coggan (EW.com) and Adam B. Vary (Variety) join returning guest GM Chancellor Agard (EW.com) to draft every theatrically released live-action film in the Star Wars Saga!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Commissioner Clay goes up against the Screen Drafts Patrons drafting the films of 2009, with Ryan acting a Patron proxy and Graham Skipper as guest commissioner!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Celebrate Kristmas Eve with draft commissioners Clay and Ryan!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Get in the holiday spirit with Screen Drafts and the only married film critic couple (that we know of)! Alonso Duralde and Dave White of The Wrap and the Linoleum Knife Podcast draft the best "Arthouse" Christmas films!
Find Alonso's book, Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas at booksellers everywhere!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Darren Franich (EW), Alison Herman (The Ringer), and Piya Sinha-Roy (The Hollywood Reporter) join commissioner Clay to draft the 20 best films from the last decade!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Frequent co-stars Brea Grant ("Eastsiders," Reading Glasses podcast) and Graham Skipper (Sequence Break, the Graham Skipper Draft) go head-to-head drafting the list of the best movies ever made about playing games!
The Dungeon Run stars Morgan Peter Brown and Jeff Cannata draft the seven best "Sword & Sorcery" movies of all-time!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Screenwriter Milla Bell-Hart and returning guest GM Bryan Cogman ("Game of Thrones") draft the seven best films of the late great Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Returning guest GM Thomas Grabinski and screenwriter Kevin Costello (Brigsby Bear) draft the seven best Heist Movies of all-time!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
SCREAMdrafts 2019 concludes with our 50th draft! After months of lobbying, Billy Ray finally coaxes Clay to draft table, to pick the 7 best FOUND FOOTAGE movies of all time! Joining Ryan in commissioning and hosting duties is friend of the show Thomas Grabinski.
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Elric Kane and Graham Skipper return to draft best movies set during Halloween, with guest co-commissioners Rebekah McKendry and Billy Ray Brewton. It's a FREDDY VS JASON reunion!
#ScreamDrafts continues with our first draft sequel! HORROR SEQUELS drafters Kyle Anderson (Entertainment Weekly) and Billy Ray Brewton return a year later to face off again, this time drafting HORROR PREQUELS.
Recorded from a spoooooky dungeon, so please forgive the echo!
Our first live show! Carpenter experts Drew McWeeny (80s All Over, "John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns") and Joe Lynch (Mayhem, Point Blank) draft the films of The Master of Horror in front of a live rooftop audience in Downtown Los Angeles.
Recorded at Rooftop Cinema Club DTLA
Ricky Carmona and Kate Freund join returning guest GM David Schilling and draft commissioner Clay Keller to draft the twenty best action films of the 1990s! Ryan takes over main commissioning duties, with veteran drafter Graham Skipper filling in as co-commissioner.
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Editor Darrin Navarro (Sorry For Your Loss, Killer Joe) returns to the draft table with writer/filmmaker Nichol Lovett to draft the best films featuring large ensembles!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Critic, podcaster, and author Alonso Duralde and filmmaker David Kittridge draft the seven best films from the filmography of PAIN AND GLORY director Pedro Almodóvar!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Ben Mekler (Final Space, Mortal Podkast) and Walter Hollmann (silverscreeningroom.com) draft the 7 best live-action American musicals NOT adapted from the stage!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Clay acts as proxy for the Screen Drafts Patreon Patrons as they draft the best "directorial debuts by actors" against co-commissioner Ryan Marker!
Recorded at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica
Four expert drafters. One wildly unpredictable actor. Anything could happen.
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Oriana returns, with draft rookie Rance Collins, to draft the best non-comedies about children!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
The title explains it all! We weren't planning on doing it, but hey, it's Patreon launch week!
Support the show at patreon.com/screendrafts
Big things are happening in the Screen Draft League front offices... check out the first episode of the "Draft Report" for post-game analysis of the already infamous FREDDY VS JASON draft, listener emails, and thoughts on MIDSOMMAR, AVENGERS: ENDGAME, and, of course, ONCE UPON A TIME IN... HOLLYWOOD. Oh, and we're launching a ding dang Patreon!
4 GMs, 6 vetoes, 1 special power-up, 20 films, 2 iconic killers. Those are several statistics associated with the wildest draft yet. But in Screen Drafts, statistics won't save you.
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
With so many classics celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, it's the perfect time for the 1999 draft! Clay and Ryan pull up seats at the draft table, with guest host/commissioner Billy Ray Brewton!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Billy Ray Brewton and Matt Mercer draft the seven best Spoof films of all-time!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Mike Dougherty (Outfest director of festival programming) and Daniel Crooke (Outfest programming coordinator, the "movies imo." podcast) draft the seven best Queer Romances of all-time!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Draft commissioners Clay and Ryan wrap up the Disney Animation Studios 2D episode with their predictions and some post-game analysis.
Riley Stearns (writer/director, The Art of Self-Defense) and Bryan Cogman (writer, "Game of Thrones," The Sword in the Stone remake) draft some of the most important films in the history of cinema: the 2D films from Disney Animation Studios!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Here's listening to you, pod! Maureen Lee Lenker (EW.com) returns to the show to draft the best Bogies of all-time with friend and fellow expert Oriana Nudo!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Actor/director/writers Graham Skipper and Matt Mercer draft the seven greatest CREATURE FEATURES of all-time!
Recorded at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica
The two most seasoned Screen Drafts veterans, Darren Franich (EW.com) and Billy Ray Brewton (Rooftop Cinema Club) square off for the very first time, drafting the seven best "Mixtape Movies" ever made!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Kate Hagen (The Black List, blcklst.com) is joined by commissioner Clay Keller to draft the seven best Erotic Thrillers of all-time!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Development man Thomas Grabinski and actor/stand-up Eric Moore draft the seven best films from the vast producorial oeuvre of Judd Apatow.
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Legit punks Jonah Ray (Jonah Raydio, MST3K, Hidden America) and Jim Branscome (Cinematic Void) draft the seven best "punksploitation" films of all-time!
Recorded at the Aero Theater
The hosts of the Pure Cinema Podcast, Brian Saur (Just the Discs) and Elric Kane (Shockwaves) draft the seven best REMAKES of all-time!
Recorded at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica
Drea Clark (Who Shot Ya? podcast, festival programmer) and Jenn Wilson (Spirit Awards, OutFest) draft the seven best films that feature an actor (or actors) playing multiple roles!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
Dane McDonald (the Chasing Chalamet podcast) and festival programmer Jesse Knight draft the seven best Amy Adams films! Featuring guest co-commissioner Britt Keller!
Grant Moninger (programmer for The American Cinematheque) and Ryan Marker (color commentator for Screen Drafts) draft the best dog movies of all time!
4 drafters. 9 vetoes. 21 movies. The entire Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Clay and Ryan draft the seven best films that have been produced or distributed (so far) by the popular independent film company A24!
The hosts of the RomComoisseurs Podcast, Dana Schwartz and Max Genecov, draft the seven best British Romantic Comedies of all-time!
Jeff Jensen (Tomorrowland, HBO's The Watchmen) and Darren Franich (Entertainment Weekly) draft the 7 best movies from the filmography of Stanley Kubrick!
Clay and Ryan draft the best "amnesia" films of all-time!
Billy Ray returns with friend and screenwriter Chris Thomas Devlin to draft the best fantasy films of the 1980s!
Our first director draft! Producer Matt Perez-Mora and director Holly Thompson take on the significant task of drafting the 7 best films by QT.
Recorded at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica
Director James Ponsoldt and editor Darrin Navarro draft the best films ever made about filmmakers!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica
The best "twist ending" films of all time, drafted by Graham Skipper (Sequence Break) and Sean Keller (All That We Destroy, Rage).
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica.
Darren Franich (Entertainment Weekly) joins the commissioners for the most epic and contentious draft in the history of drafts, as they determine the 17 best films of 2018!
Recorded at the Aero in Santa Monica, CA
The commissioners are joined by friend of the show Darren Franich to draft their picks for who should take home the gold at the 2019 Oscar ceremony.
Amy Nicholson (Unspooled) and Eva Anderson (You're The Worst) draft the best films from the nearly 60 year career of tall drink of scary water Christopher Lee.
Recorded at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica
Angela Matano returns, and brings along her pal, director Alec Tibaldi, to draft the best films that are most notable for their famous nude scene(s).
Graham Skipper (Sequence Break, Almost Human) joins fan favorite Billy Ray Brewton to draft the best non-family friendly Christmas movies of all time!
The possibilities are endless when Dave Schilling and Zed Cutsinger draft the best sports movies of all time!
Recorded at the Aero theater in Santa Monica.
Happy Holidays! Ring in the season with guest GMs Maureen Lee Lenker (EW.com) and Vince Balzano (producer, A Christmas Prince) as they draft the best pre-1960 Christmas movies of all-time!
Clay and Ryan leave the comfort of the commentary booth and get in the game, drafting the best TIME TRAVEL movies! Suggested by listener Conor Holt.
It's the final #SCREAMdrafts of 2018! Heidi Honeycutt and Billy Ray Brewton (Los Angeles Film Festival's horror programmers) draft the best theatrically released films adapted from the horror works of the one and only Stephen King.
Piya Sinha-Roy and Darren Franich, friends and Entertainment Weekly colleagues, put their friendship (and colleagueship?) to the test as they draft the best Teen Horror movies of the last 25 years!
In October, Screen Drafts becomes SCREAM Drafts and we kick off #ScreamDrafts 2018 with Kyle Anderson (EW's Up All Afternoon) and Billy Ray Brewton (Rooftop Cinema Club) drafting the best Horror Sequels of all time!
Angela Matano (The Argonaut) and Tom Cendejas (The Couch Tamale) draft the seven best Audrey Hepburn movies of all time!
Steve Berg (The Good Place, TAG) goes up against Screen Drafts color commentator Ryan Marker to draft the seven best movies about aliens visiting Earth.
Recorded at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica
In the first episode of Screen Drafts, guest GMs Darren Franich and Chancellor Agard (Entertainment Weekly) draft the top 7 all-time best "threequels!"
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