Screen Drafts

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!