Screen Drafts

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!