Veteran GMs Drew McWeeny ( The Hip Pocket ) and Jordan Crucchiola ( Feeling Seen ) reunite at the Draft Table for a competitive / collaborative ranking of the complete feature filmography of Tony and Oscar winner JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY, sponsored by Booster Club Official Sponsor Damian Masterson! Become a Screen Drafts Booster! Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to find out how!
Jul 08, 2025•2 hr 58 min
Rookie Month gets an early, explosively hilarious, start! Patrick Willems and Matthew Krol join the Draft Table for the first time, ranking the 7 best ACTION COMEDY films ever made! Become a Screen Drafts Booster! Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to find out how!
Jun 30, 2025•2 hr 54 min
Screen Drafts All-Stars Guy Branum and Wynter Mitchell are back at the draft table, taking on the feature filmography of Oscar winner CAMERON CROWE! Help us help you get four bonus episodes a month and AD-FREE Main Feed drafts: become a Screen Drafts Booster! Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Jun 24, 2025•2 hr 47 min
Let's do the TIME LOOP again! Guest GMs William Bibbiani (Critically Acclaimed Network) and Clem Bastow (Someone Like Me) join the Draft Table to competitively / collaboratively rank the 7 best films about being stuck in a TIME LOOP! Become a Screen Drafts Booster by visiting www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Jun 17, 2025•2 hr 11 min
Film critic Katie Walsh is back at the Draft Table alongside producer Billy Ray Brewton, competitively / collaboratively ranking the filmographies of the two most famous COREYS to ever walk this Earth: HAIM and FELDMAN! Become a Screen Drafts Booster by visiting www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Jun 10, 2025•2 hr 24 min
The Screen Drafts Legends (Clay, Ryan, Billy Ray Brewton, Darren Franich, Graham Skipper, Bryan Cogman, and Drea Clark) gather at the Main Feed Draft Table for the very first time, ranking all 8 films in producer / star Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible franchise! Become a Screen Drafts Booster by visiting www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Jun 03, 2025•4 hr 52 min
Kingcast and The Spiel host Eric Vespe returns to the draft table, this time competitively / collaboratively ranking the entire filmography of Oscar winner KATHRYN BIGELOW with author, podcaster, and Screen Drafts rookie Mallory O'Meara ( Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman )! Dedicated to the memory of the late, great, Scott Wampler Become a Screen Drafts Booster! Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts...
May 30, 2025•2 hr 20 min
Screen Drafts veterans Bryan Cogman ( Game of Thrones ), Milla-Bell Hart ( Bad Monkey ), and Mitchell Beaupre (Letterboxd), join us at the Draft Table to competitively / collaboratively rank the 13 BEST films from the legendary career of the great GENE HACKMAN! Also getting in on the action is co-commish Ryan Marker, acting as GM proxy for the sadly absent Roxana Hadadi. Become a Screen Drafts Booster! Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts
May 20, 2025•5 hr 4 min
At the behest of Booster Club Official Sponsor Meredith Smith-Hitchman, Screen Drafts veteran Phil Iscove (Podcast Like It's the 2000s) and rookie Esther Zuckerman (Falling in Love at the Movies) join us at the draft table to competitively / collaborative rank the 7 best '90s ROMANTIC COMEDIES about SCHOOL-aged people! Do you like ad-free Main Feed episodes and being buried under a mountain of bonus content? Join the Screen Drafts Booster Club! www.patreon.com/screendrafts...
May 12, 2025•1 hr 48 min
Enjoy a SNEAK PEEK at not one, but TWO Booster Club exclusive series! First up, hold on tight for the inaugrual episode of SPEED DRAFTS! Then, join us in the COOL KIDS CRITERION CLUB CORNER for a discussion of Akira Kurosawa's High & Low . For more of these series, plus The Marathon and The Franchise mini-Super Drafts, visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts
May 05, 2025•2 hr 8 min
Rookies Mike Scollins (Late Night with Seth Meyers) and Kevin Tully (Telethon Band) join the Draft Table for a Super Draft of the 8 feature films adapted from attractions designed by the WED Enterprises / Disney Imagineering! Join the Screen Drafts Booster Club for 3+ bonus episodes a month and AD-FREE Main Feed drafts! www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Apr 28, 2025•2 hr 40 min
The Wives Colangelo (This Ends at Prom) are back at the Draft Table, competitively / collaboratively ranking the 7 best from that most unusual of subgenres... BODY SWAP MOVIES! Listen AD-FREE in the Screen Drafts Booster Club! www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 55 min
It's brother versus brother as Darren Franich (The Draftland Scene) and Adam B. Vary (Variety) rank the 7 best films from the acclaimed writing and directing careers of the GILROY BROTHERS! Listen to Screen Drafts AD FREE by joining the Booster Club! www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Apr 15, 2025•3 hr 4 min
Commissioner Ryan Marker is joined by Screen Drafts All-Stars / former EW colleagues Kyle Anderson and Chancellor Agard to give the DC BERLANTIVERSE the send-off it deserves: a collaborative ranking all 11 inter-connected Super series! At the commissioner's table providing commentary and emotional support to Clay is Screen Drafts Legend / another former EW colleague, Darren Franich! Listen AD-FREE in the Screen Drafts Booster Club: www.patreon.com/screendrafts...
Apr 08, 2025•5 hr 11 min
Coroner to the Stars director / Screen Drafts rookie Ben Hethcoat is joined by the film's co-producer / Screen Drafts Legend Billy Ray Brewton to rank the 7 best theatrically-released TRUE CRIME DOCUMENTARIES! Become a Booster! Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Apr 01, 2025•2 hr 38 min
Chasing Chalamet host Dane McDonald and film critic and podcaster Katie Walsh competitively / collaboratively rank the 7 best films starring two-time Oscar nominee TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET! Become a Screen Drafts Booster today! www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Mar 25, 2025•2 hr 38 min
Screen Drafts Legend Graham Skipper ( The Lonley Man with the Ghost Machine ) is joined by director Jill Gevargizian ( The Stylist, Ghost Game ) to competitively / collaboratively rank all 9 films in the TCM franchise! Sitting in with Clay and Ryan at the commissioner's table is Fangoria editor Phil Nobile Jr., providing trivia and commentary. Become a Screen Drafts Booster! Go to www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Mar 17, 2025•3 hr 7 min
Screen Drafts All-Star Louis Peitzman is joined by long-absent returning GM Alison Willmore (Vulture) to competitively / collaboratively rank the 7 best HORROR films that take place on VACATION! Join the Screen Drafts Booster Club! www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Mar 10, 2025•2 hr 31 min
Enjoy this Screen Drafts Booster Club SNEAK PEEK! It's Drea Clark vs. the Screen Drafts Boosters, ranking the 7 best films from the career of Indie Queen PARKER POSEY! The Booster's picks were formulated by Clay using a poll, and proprietary algorithm, then handed off to Booster's Champion Drew McWeeny, who acted as Draft Proxy. It's a rollicking good time, the sort of which we may be having again soon...
Mar 04, 2025•2 hr 21 min
It's the climax of awards season! Alonso Duralde (author, podcaster) finally joins the draft table for a Best-Of-The-Year draft, competitively / collaboratively picking the 20 best films of 2024 with Screen Drafts Legend Drea Clark (podcaster, Sundance Film Festival, Film Independent Spirit Awards) and Screen Draft Celestials Billy Ray Brewton (To The Table) and Commisioner Ryan Marker. Become a Screen Drafts Booster! Go to www.patreon.com/screendrafts...
Feb 25, 2025•5 hr 38 min
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!
Feb 19, 2025•2 hr 46 min
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! Become a Screen Drafts Booster by going to www.patreon.com...
Feb 11, 2025•2 hr 27 min
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! Become a Booster and hear the rest of "Kraven On My Mind" by visiting www.patreon.com/screendrafts Next week: the INTERNET HORROR Draft, with Elric Kane & Rebekah McKendry...
Feb 05, 2025•5 hr 14 min
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! Become a Screen Drafts Booster and get LOADS of bonus material! www.patreon.com/screendrafts...
Jan 28, 2025•2 hr 23 min
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! Become a Screen Drafts Booster by going to www.patreon.com/screendrafts...
Jan 21, 2025•4 hr 25 min
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. Cravin' Kraven is available NOW! www.patreon.com/screendrafts Find the GoFundMe for Ben Mekler and his family HERE...
Jan 14, 2025•2 hr 26 min
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! Become a Screen Drafts Booster and get in the game! Patreon.com/screendrafts
Jan 07, 2025•3 hr 2 min
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!
Dec 31, 2024•5 hr 32 min
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! Join the Screen Drafts Booster Club and become a citizen of Draftland! Patreon.com/screendrafts
Dec 24, 2024•2 hr 53 min
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! Want to be a Booster? Get at least three bonus episodes every month by becoming a Season Ticket Holder! www.patreon.com/scr...
Dec 16, 2024•1 hr 59 min