Screen Drafts

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, m...

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!

Horror experts / collaborators / spouses Rebekah & David McKendry draft the 7 best horror films that take place on or in water!

Director Dan Trachtenberg ( 10 Cloverfield Lane ) and podcaster David Chen (Culturally Relevant) competitively rank the 7 best films from the career of the singular John Woo! Cue the doves!

BenDavid Grabinski ( Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Happily ) and Morgan Peter Brown ( The Dungeon Run ) take Screen Drafts to the Danger Zone. 

Joanna Robinson (Vanity Fair) joins Bryan and Graham for the second installment of their trilogy of drafts focusing on the cinematic adaptations of the works of William Shakespeare.  PART II covers theatrical feature films, released between 1989-2020, that use the Bard's original text. 

Clay and Ryan invite Thomas Grabinski to join their Kristmas Eve 2020 festivity of drafting every* feature film by French auteur Olivier Assayas!  *available on home video

Bryan Cogman and Pat Driscoll draft the seven best adaptations of Charles Dickens' classic tale! If you're able, please donate to the charities highlighted by Bryan and Pat on the episode: My Friends' Place ( myfriendsplace.org ) & The Marcia P. Johnson Foundation ( marshap.org )!

Drea Clark (Who Shot Ya?) saddles up with Darren Franich (EW.com) and Billy Ray Brewton (Scripts Gone Wild) as the sun sets on their epic, year-long, trilogy of Western mini-Mega drafts. For Part III, they rank the 13 best traditional Westerns released between 1993-2020.