The Movie Draft House

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're doing a year long theme of "one degree of separation" where each film we review has to have some connection to the previous weeks' film...join us this week as we review the 2024 Oscar nominated film "The Substance" starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, and Dennis Quaid. A run down of the previous weeks films... We finished 2...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're reviewing films that have "one degree of separation" from the previous weeks' film the entire year of 2025! We move right along with our review of the 2024 Ethan Coen directed film "Drive-Away Dolls" starring Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Colman Domingo, Matt Damon, and Beanie Feldstein. Tune in to find out what we...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're continuing our year-long theme of "one degree of separation" from the previous weeks' film as we review the 2024 Ridley Scott directed epic "Gladiator II" starring Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, and Connie Neilsen. Tune in to find out why Jeff loathes long movies, loves Pedro Pascal, and just what is a "Pe...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're doing "one degree of separation" as our year-long theme for the pod, and this week's review is the 2022 blockbuster "Top Gun: Maverick" starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, and Glen Powell. Tune in to find out if this one is as good as we remember... Let's run down our "one degree of separation"... Final film of 2024 - "A Simple Favor" which starred Anna...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're continuing our "one degree of separation" in the films we draft, so this week we selected the 2014 Damien Chazelle-directed film "Whiplash" starring J.K. Simmons and Miles Teller. We got to this film by selecting Paul Reiser who was in last week's film "Life After Beth". Tune in to find out what we thought of this one and why Mark loves Damien Chazelle....

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House and welcome to 2025! We're going about things a little differently this year, ditching the themes and picking films that have "one degree of separation" from the previous weeks' film. To start the year off, Jeff picked the 2014 A24 "dark comedy" movie "Life After Beth" starring Aubrey Plaza and Dane DeHaan. His one degree of separation from the previous week i...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! It's our final episode of 2024 and we're ending things with a BANG, finishing off "missing persons" month with our review of the 2018 Paul Feig film "A Simple Favor" starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively. Tune in to find out what we thought of this one, why Jeff loves Anna Kendrick, why Mark doesn't mind Nicole Kidman, and what our top 5 and bottom 5 films...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're winding down "missing persons" month with our review of the 2013 Denis Villeneuve film "Prisoners" starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Terrance Howard, Viola Davis, and Paul Dano. Tune in to find out what we thought of this one and why Jeff is lukewarm on just about everything... Follow the podcast across all social media! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're progressing right along with "missing persons" month here in December 2024 as we review the 2006 remake "The Wicker Man" starring Nicolas Cage. Tune in to find out why this one is terrible, why Nic Cage decided to stop acting for a bit in the late 2000's to mid 20-teens and why Jeff very much enjoyed the original film more than this one... IMDB synopsis...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! It's December 2024 and we're ringing in the new year with a month full of "missing persons" films. We start the month off with a remake with the George Sluizer film "The Vanishing" starring Keifer Sutherland, Jeff Bridges, Nancy Travis, and Sandra Bullock! Tune in to find out why Jeff loved this film, why Mark hates Keifer Sutherland, and why remakes are gene...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're capping off "heist" films month here on the podcast with our review of the 1992 film "Sneakers" starring Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Akroyd, River Phoenix, and David Strathairn. Tune in to find out what we thought of this one and, oh yea, it's draft night bitches! IMDB synopsis "A security pro finds his past returning to haunt him when he and hi...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're in the middle of "heist" films month here on the podcast and this week we're reviewing the 2015 sci-fi Neill Blomkamp directed film "Chappie" starring Sharlto Copley, Dev Patel, and Hugh Jackman. Tune in to find out if Chappie is a top five film robot of all time, why this movie serves as anti-America commentary, and why Jeff now loves Darren Arronofsky...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're in the thick of "heist" films month for November 2024 as we review the 2021 film "No Sudden Move" directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Don Cheadle, Benecio del Toro, David Harbour, Brendan Fraser, and Jon Hamm. Tune in to find out why Jeff loves Heist films directed by dudes he's never heard of, why Mark loves Don Cheadle, and just why neither lov...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're in the month of November 2024 and that means "Heist" films! We kick the month off with a sci-fi heist film that also happens to be one of the best Star Wars films ever created with our review of the 2016 stand alone film "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" directed by Gareth Edwards and starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Riz Ahmed, and Mads Mik...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're putting a knife through the heart of "Rushmore of Slasher Villains" month here on the podcast with our final review of the month with our take on the "classic" film "Halloween" from 1978 starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Tune in to find out why neither Mark or Jeff thinks very highly of this one and why more films should have nothing put piano and acoustic sou...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're moving through the head of our Mount Rushmore of Slasher Villains here on the podcast with our review of the 1998 slasher Bride of Chucky starring young Katherine Heigl, John Ritter, and Jennifer Tilly. Tune in to find out what we thought of this one! Follow the podcast across all social media! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're in the thick of "Mount Rushmore of Slasher Villains" month and this week's episode is our review of the 1997 slasher classic "Scream 2" directed by Wes Craven and starring Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Jamie Kennedy, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Heather Graham and more! Tune in to find out what we thought of this one and is the Ghostface Killer...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! It's spooky month here on the podcast and our theme this month is "Rushmore Slasher Villains"! Our review this week explores the question...is Jason Vorhees really that scary or is he just misunderstood with our review of the 1984 film "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter". Tune in to find out why Jeff loves a good woods flick, why Mark hates sitting around do...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House as we enter spooky season for the month of October 2024 as we're reviewing films that feature one of the four greatest slashers to ever grace film...and this week we had an out-of-the-box pick of the Leprechaun from the film of the same name from 1993 starring Jennifer Anniston and Warwick Davis. This episode is also our first ever cross-over podcast with the...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We conclude "Emma Stone v. Charlize Theron" month with our review of the 2018 film "Tully" starring Theron and Ron Livingston. Tune in to find out what we thought of this one, why Jeff loves movies about moms, why Mark thinks Ron Livingston is in everything and on yea, we're drafting! IMDB synopsis "A struggling mother of three fo...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're in the thick of "Emma Stone vs. Charlize Theron" month here on the podcast with our review of the 2021 Emma Stone helmed film "Cruella"! Tune in to find out what we thought of this one and why Disney spending massive amounts of money on live action "remakes" or "prequels" does not always equate to good films....

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're in the middle of "Emma Stone vs. Charlize Theron" month here at the podcast and we've got Theron's first film of the month with the 2019 film "Bombshell" starring Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, and John Lithgow. Tune in to find out what we thought of this! IMDB synopsis "A group of women take on Fox News head...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're in the month of September 2024, which means it's "That one actress that I like, will you pick a movie for them for me, please?" month! Mark selected Emma Stone, Jeff picked Charlize Theron...and thus, our first film of the month is the 2018 Yorgos Lanthimos film "The Favourite" starring Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! It's our final week of video game month (thank God!) and we're celebrating by watching everyone's (Mark's) favorite tomb raider, Nathan Drake, as we review the 2022 big budget mess "Uncharted" starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg. Tune in to find out what we thought of this one and why we will never be re-drafting this theme in Jun...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House! We're in the thick of Video Game month here on the pod and this week we reviewed the 2008 (but really looks like a 1999) film "Max Payne" starring Mark Wahlberg and Mila Kunis. Tune in to find out why these types of movies suck, why video game films just don't work and we PIVOT for next week... IMDB synopsis "Coming together to solve a...