Screen Drafts

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!