Screen Drafts

Drew McWeeny ( Formerly Dangerous ) is back at the draft table, this time with his ol' pal Alan Sepinwall ( Rolling Stone ), drafting the seven best films ever adapted from television shows!

Halle Kiefer returns to draft the best films starring the stars of the television show Friends with her Ruined podcast co-host Alison Leiby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)! 

On 11/22/95, Disney released Pixar's  Toy Story , forever changing the animated film landscape. On 11/22/20, Screen Drafts forever changed the podcast landscape with our PIXAR SUPER DRAFT. Griffin Newman (Blank Check, The Tick), Adam B. Vary (Variety), Angelique Jackson (Variety), and Dane McDonald (Chasing Chalamet) competitively rank all 22 features films made by Pixar during its first 25 years...

Filmmakers / Franks Frank Dietz (Shudder's "Creepshow") and Frank H. Woodward ( Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown ) visit the human planet earth to draft the 7 best science fiction films from the 1950s!

The hosts of This Had Oscar Buzz (Chris Feil & Joe Reid) sashay up to the virtual draft table and rank the best fictional films ever made about DRAG!

Hail to the Chief! Writer and comedian Guy Branum goes head-to-head with our very own Ryan Marker, drafting the 7 best films about the President of the United States (real or fictional)!

SCREAM Drafts 2020 comes to a terrifying conclusion with Jim Branscome (Cinematic Void) and Alfonso Carrillo (Rendevous LA) drafting the top 7 nasties films on the Thatcher government's "Video Nasties - Prosecuted Films" list! 

ALIEN. PREDATOR. SCOTT WAMPLER (The Kingcast). ANGIE HAN (mashable.com). BRIAN COLLINS (Horror Movie A Day). Whoever wins... we WIN!   

For their 3rd annual SCREAM Draft match-up, Billy Ray and Kyle tackle the broad subgenre of HORROR REMAKES!

We open the gates of Scream Drafts 2020 with Rebekah McKendry (Nightmare University) and Elric Kane (Pure Cinema Podcast) drafting the filmography of Italian shock master Lucio Fulci!

Clay and Darren are not from around here as they draft the 7 best "Florida Crime" movies ever made! Along for the gator tour are Ryan, assuming the host role, and guest co-commissioner Walter Hollmann (a Florida native)!

Thus begins Bryan and Graham's epic three part journey through the entire history of William Shakespeare on the silver screen!  In PART I, Maureen Lee Lenker (EW.com) joins the lads to draft the 11 best films released theatrically from 1927-1988 that use the original Shakespeare text in their adaptation.

Two of Screen Drafts' most passionate guest GMs, Dave Schilling (Full Court Chat) and Jordan Crucchiola (Disaster Girls, A Simple Podcast) go head-to-head, drafting the filmography of the "king of the 90s," WESLEY SNIPES! 

Get in, we're going on a road trip (draft) with Dave Holmes and Matt Mercer! Don't forget to use the restroom first! 

And now, the epic conclusion!  Recorded LIVE for the Chattanooga Film Festival on May 24, 2020

LIVE from the (virtual) Chattanooga Film Festival 2020, it's part one of the epic 70s HORROR MEGA DRAFT, with Clarke Wolfe, Chelsea Stardust, Graham Skipper, Billy Ray Brewton, and Beezlebub the CFF demon!  Originally aired May 23, 2020

Enjoy a little taste of what can be found every month over on the Screen Drafts Patreon feed -- Clay and Ryan drafting the 5 films in the Jurassic Park / World  franchise, with trivia from Darren and Billy Ray! To sign up, visit patreon.com/screendrafts

The dark second chapter in this epic trilogy finds old arch-rivals Darren and Billy Ray doing battle with co-commissioner Ryan, drafting the 13 best Westerns released between 1964 and 1992. Stepping in a guest co-commissioner is Bryan Cogman, doing his damndest to help Clay keep all these gunslingers in line. 

Writer/podcasters Dana Schwartz ("She Hulk," Noble Blood) and Phillip Iscove ("Sleepy Hollow," Podcast Like It's 1999) draft the seven best films from the classic-laden filmography of Gen X queen Winona Ryder!

Entertainment Weekly colleagues (and friends) Christian Holub & Devan Coggan draft the best films adapted from comic books that AREN'T about superheroes!

The con is on! Comedians / writers / actors / podcasters Ify Nwadiwe (Who Shot Ya?) and Demi Adejuyigbe (The Good Place) draft the seven best movies about the confidence trick!

Veteran sketch comedy performers Henry Zebrowski (The Last Podcast On the Left) and Graham Skipper ( Sequence Break ) draft the seven best films that celebrate the form! 

The guys behind the Critically Acclaimed podcast network, William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold, draft the seven best films about the animal kingdom fighting back!

ROCK ON with filmmakers / metalheads Rebekah McKendry and Dave Parker as they draft the seven best "Heavy Metal" films ever made!

Because it's 2020 (ugh) audiences will not be flocking to the multiplexes to enjoy Hollywood's hottest summer releases this 4th of July holiday weekend. So Adam B. Vary (Variety) and Alison Willmore (Vulture) thought it would be fun to indulge in some summer nostalgia by looking back and ranking the 7 best films that opened on Independence Day weekend between 1979-2019.