Screen Drafts

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!