Angie Han (The Hollywood Reporter) and Liz Shannon Miller (consequence.net) return to the virtual draft table to competitively / collaboratively rank all 9 feature films written or written and directed by CHARLIE KAUFMAN! Also joining us is Patreon Official Sponsor Mark Rozeman (The Good Doctor), with a terrific trivia round! Check out Mark's "Kaufman Collage" here: https://vimeo.com/1036145999 Want more Screen Drafts action? Get Boosted by joining the Screen Drafts Booster Club! Go to www.patre...
Dec 09, 2024•2 hr 45 min
Screen Drafts Hall-of-Famer Clarke Wolfe and rookie Samm Levine join us at the draft table to talk about their Thanksgiving set horror film Fiendsgiving and rank the 7 best HORROR films set on a (non-Christmas and non-Halloween) HOLIDAY! Check out the Fiendsgiving indiegogo page via the link below! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fiendsgiving-an-original-holiday-slasher-movie#/ Want more Screen Drafts action? Get Boosted by joining the Screen Drafts Booster Club! Go to www.patreon.com/screend...
Dec 03, 2024•2 hr 29 min
All train tracks have led to this: the THRILLING conclusion of the ALFRED HITCHCOCK MEGA DRAFT! Clay and guest commish Drea Clark ( Maximum Film ) are joined by GMs Ben Mankiewicz (TCM's The Plot Thickens and Talking Pictures ), Maureen Lee Lenker ( His Girl Hollywood ) and Oriana Nudo ( Hollywood-ography ) for picks #10 to #1 on the definitive "Master of Suspense" Top 30 list. This concludes HITCHCOCK / TRUFFAUT Month, thanks for listening! Coming in January... COPPOLA Month! Want more Screen D...
Nov 26, 2024•4 hr 15 min
Marya E. Gates returns alongside Clay Keller, Ryan Marker, and guest commissioner Billy Ray Brewton for the epic conclusion to the FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT SUPER DRAFT, ranking films #11 to #1 on the single, definitive, best-of list! Next week brings the grand finale of HITCHCOCK / TRUFFAUT Month, with Oriana Nudo, Maureen Lee Lenker, and Ben Mankiewicz ranking the Top 10 films directed by Alfred Hitchcock! Join the Booster Club: www.patreon.com/screendrafts...
Nov 19, 2024•3 hr 15 min
The epic ALFRED HITCHCOCK MEGA DRAFT continues in PART TWO, as Mark Harris ( Pictures at a Revolution, Five Came Back, Mike Nichols: A Life ), Adam B. Vary ( Variety ) and Screen Drafts Legend Darren Franich ( The Draftland Scene ) take over the middle of the list, ranking films #20 to #11! Want more Screen Drafts action? Get Boosted by joining the Screen Drafts Booster Club! Go to www.patreon.com/screendrafts for info....
Nov 12, 2024•5 hr 42 min
Hitchcock / Truffaut Month continues with PART ONE of the FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT SUPER DRAFT! Veteran GM Marya E. Gates joins Clay and Ryan to make picks 21-12 on the definitive ranking of the work from one of the architects of the French New Wave. Leading the festivities as guest commish is Screen Drafts Legend Billy Ray Brewton!
Nov 05, 2024•3 hr 8 min
HITCHCOCK / TRUFFAUT Month commences with PART ONE (picks 30-21) of the long, long, long-awaited ALFRED HITCHCOCK MEGA DRAFT. Joining us to build the foundation of the list are newly-minted Screen Drafts All-Star William Bibbiani (Critically Acclaimed Network), author Walter Chaw (A Walter Hill Film), and newly-minted Screen Drafts LEGEND Drea Clark (Maximum Film)! In two weeks: PART TWO with Mark Harris, Darren Franich, and Adam B. Vary
Nov 02, 2024•4 hr 9 min
SCREAM Drafts 2024 comes to a shocking conclusion as Screen Drafts Legend Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) is joined by B.J. Colangelo (This Ends at Prom) and Chris Hewitt (Empire Magazine) to rank the 13 (oooo scary) best HORROR films made by HAMMER studios in the CLASSIC era!
Oct 28, 2024•5 hr 4 min
It's week three of SCEAM Drafts VII and out-of-towners Josh Larsen (Filmspotting) and Joe George (Den of Geek) broke down in Draftland, so we tied them to the draft table and made them rank the 7 best RURAL HORROR films ever made!
Oct 22, 2024•2 hr 20 min
In week 2 of SCREAM Drafts 2024, Justin LaLiberty and Samm Deighan of Vinegar Syndrome return to rank the 7 best EROTIC HORROR films!
Oct 15, 2024•1 hr 31 min
SCREAM Drafts VII kicks off with "best friends" Billy Ray Brewton and Kyle Anderson ranking the 7 best horror films from the year 1977!
Oct 09, 2024•2 hr 26 min
Literacy Month comes to an end as Team This Had Oscar Buzz (Chris Feil & Joe Reid) squares off with Team Vanity Fair Refugees (Joanna Robinson & Katey Rich), competitively / collaboratively ranking the 7 best movies about BOOKSTORES and LIBRARIES!
Oct 01, 2024•2 hr 18 min
Returning GMs Katie Walsh and Louis Peitzman join us for the next chapter of Literacy Month, ranking the 7 best films adapted from the works of the Talented Ms. Highsmith!
Sep 24, 2024•2 hr 43 min
Daniel Fienberg (The Hollywood Reporter), Alan Sepinwall (Rolling Stone), and Linda Holmes (NPR), are back at the draft table, this time joined by Jen Yamato (The Washington Post), for the next installment in their journey through the history of SPORTS in cinema! Up at bat: the 1990s!
Sep 17, 2024•4 hr 33 min
Literacy Month continues with screenwriters Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones) and Milla Bell-Hart (Bad Monkey) ranking the best films ever made from the work of acclaimed crime writer ELMORE LEONARD! Joining Clay at the commissioner's table is Screen Drafts legend and writer of The Draftland Scene, Mr. Darren Franich.
Sep 10, 2024•3 hr 49 min
An adventure 4 years in the making! To kick off Literacy Month, Commissioner Clay is joined by newly minted Screen Drafts All-Star Darrin Navarro, Screen Drafts Legend Billy Ray Brewton, and guest commissioner Bryan Cogman (also a Screen Drafts Legend) to rank all 22 films directed, written, or adapted from the works of the prolific master of the science thriller, MICHAEL CRICHTON!
Sep 03, 2024•5 hr 52 min
Co-authors of LOST: Back to the Island , Emily St. James ( Yellowjackets ) & Noel Murray (The New York Times, The A.V. Club), rank the 7 best films ever made about CASTAWAYS!
Aug 27, 2024•2 hr 5 min
Rookies Bilge Ebiri and Brandon Streussnig join Screen Drafts vet Roxana Hadadi to competitively / collaboratively rank all 13 films directed by the Master of Dudes Rock Cinema, MICHAEL MANN!
Aug 21, 2024•5 hr 15 min
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the films of 1994 and we are celebrating with some of our favorite guest GMs, Hall-of-Famer Drew McWeeny, Legend Billy Ray Brewton, and near-Legend Drea Clark, ranking the 13 best films released in that exceptional year! Joining them at the draft table are commissioners Clay and Ryan, and Booster Club Official Sponsor Frank Berman!
Aug 13, 2024•4 hr 51 min
Former retail warriors Bethy Squires (Vulture) and Mia Lee Vicino (Letterboxd) join Clay and Ryan at the Draft Table to rank the 7 best films ever made about living in RETAIL HELL!
Aug 06, 2024•2 hr 38 min
Welcome to Draftland, where frenemy arthouse cinema operators Clay and Ryan program competing 4-film movie marathons using titles drawn from classic Screen Drafts episodes! Today, they are using the JERRY BRUCKHEIMER draft list to curate the most explosive and enticing marathons that members of the Booster Club have ever seen! Which marathon will YOU attend? Listen, then vote! Get boosted: www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Jul 29, 2024•2 hr 11 min
It's the kickin'-est, punchin'-est, splitsin'est draft of the year, as Screen Drafts rookies / Action Boyz Jon Gabrus and Ryan Stanger join commissioner Clay and guest co-commish Drew McWeeny (The Last '80s Newsletter You'll Ever Need) for a competitive / collaborative ranking of the 7 best films starring The Muscles from Brussels!
Jul 23, 2024•2 hr 44 min
Movie podcasters / authors Jordan Morris ( Youth Group, Free with Ads ) and Elliott Kalan ( Disney's Hercules, The Flophouse ) go head-to-head at the virtual draft table, ranking the 7 best films about SUPERNATURAL KIDS! Joining Clay as co-commissioner is movie podcaster / author Alonso Duralde ( Hollywood Pride, Maximum Film ). Order the books! YOUTH GROUP HERCULES HOLLYWOOD PRIDE...
Jul 16, 2024•2 hr 34 min
Screen Drafts Vintage Veterans Bryan Cogman ( Game of Thrones ), Maureen Lee Lenker ( It Happened One Fight ) and Oriana Nudo ( Hollywood-ography ) are back at the draft table, ranking the 13 best films from one of the greatest years in Hollywood history: 1939. Want more Screen Drafts action? Get Boosted by joining the Screen Drafts Booster Club! Go to www.patreon.com/screendrafts for info.
Jul 08, 2024•5 hr 45 min
Colleagues and Screen Drafts veterans Adam B. Vary and Angelique Jackson (Variety) rank the 7 best films from the career of two-time Oscar nominee ANGELA BASSETT!
Jul 02, 2024•3 hr 14 min
Our Pride Month celebration concludes with an epic mini-MEGA draft of the 11 best films ever made about LESBIANS, with Screen Drafts veterans Emily St. James (Podcast Like It's), Libby Hill (Yellowjackets) and Jordan Crucchiola (Feeling Seen)!
Jun 25, 2024•3 hr 22 min
Screen Drafts All-Stars Joe Reid (This Had Oscar Buzz, Cinematrix) and Louis Peitzman ("Please watch Twelve ") help us celebrate Pride Month with a ranking of the 9 best films from the filmography of director JOEL SCHUMACHER!
Jun 18, 2024•3 hr 23 min
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of The Bentonville Film Festival, Screen Drafts Legend Billy Ray Brewton, and Screen Drafts Drea (and Bentonville Artistic Director) Drea Clark join us at the Draft Table to rank the 7 best films from the career of festival founder GEENA DAVIS! Filling in for Ryan as co-commish is Hollywood Pride author Alonso Duralde!
Jun 11, 2024•2 hr 20 min
Join guest GMs Kris Tapley (The 50 MPH Podcast) and Ash Crossan (Entertainment Tonight) as they rank the 7 best films to ever win Hollywood's most prestigious honor: the MTV MOVIE AWARDS BEST KISS AWARD!
Jun 04, 2024•1 hr 52 min
Screen Drafts vets Marc Bernardin, Dave Schilling, and Darren Franich reunite in person (!) at the Aero Theater to competitively / collaboratively rank all 10 films in the decades-spanning The Planet of the Apes franchise!
May 27, 2024•4 hr 10 min
