The Movie Draft House

We have 100% completed drug month!  Closing the month with Limitless, where we see the Police Corner return, hear about Hub search history results, and George Clooney deep fakes.  It's also draft month, and the boys want dem vampires!  Space vampires!!! IMDB Synopsis: A mysterious pill that enables the user to access 100% of his brain's abilities transforms a struggling writer into...

Welcome back to The Movie Draft House!  We're in the highs of drugs month here on the pod (see what we did there??)!  This week Jeff and Mark reviewed the 2017 Doug Liman directed action flick American Made starring Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, and Jesse Plemmons.  Tune in to find out why Jeff likes the simple things, why Mark hates planes, and why Doug Liman is no Ma...

It's week 3 of drug month and after last week, experimenting with harder drugs, the boy take it easy with some good ol' marijuana. This episode we spend some time in the police corner, get into bail bonds, and discuss our favorite Chappelle show skit.  IMDB Synopsis: The story of three not so bright men who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail. Directed by Tamra...

What happens when Jeff has to review a film that he "hates"?  He secretly loves...ass to ass!  The Draft House is back during DRUGS month - August 2022 - with our review of the 2000 film Requiem for a Dream directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Ellen Burstyn, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald and Keith David.  Tune in to find out why musical comp...

Mark and Jeff graduated in August, and are celebrating by going on a drug bender all September by watching movies that focus on drugs and drug use.  We start of with Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly.  School of Rock this is not.  Keanu butters bread, RDJ gets ripped off, and animation causes nausea.  IMDB Synopsis: An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved...

Pomp and fucking circumstance, motherfuckers!  The Draft House is graduating this week!  We're back with our final episode of the month of August - Back to School month!  We're seniors, we're going out with a bang...?  This week we reviewed the 2004 cult classic teen movie Mean Girls starring Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Tim Meadows, an...

We going back to school in the month of April, and this weeks episode is guaranteed to JACK YOU UP! Elijah Wood leads an unlikely group of high schoolers against a threat that is starting among the staff on campus.  Only Scat, and multiple t-shirts and stop the inevitable assault of The Faculty.  IMDB Synopsis: When Casey Connor, Herrington High School's newspaper photographer, witnesses...

It's our sophomore week of Back to School month at the Draft House!  This week the boys reviewed the 2009 Robin Williams dramedy World's Greatest Dad directed by a dude with perhaps the World's Greatest Name...Bobcat Goldthwait!  In this episode we find out Jeff's experience with Chili Dogs (google it...or don't...), Mark's asphyxiation erotica knowledge, why flip phones were cool, and m...

Mark and Jeff are going back to school in August, and nothing says school like the prom.  Jamie Lee Curtis brings her slasher pedigree to this 1980 murder who done it.  This movie features disco, mean girls, and Slick!  Slick has a bad ass conversion van, and this brings back memories for Mark.   IMDB Synopsis: At a high school senior prom, a masked killer stalks four teenagers...

Titular MCU actor month closes in rare form with Jojo Rabbit.  Scarlett Johansson stars alongside Rebel Wilson, Sam Rockwell, and Stephen Merchant.  Taika Waititi writes, directs, and stars.  Mark says some things that *wink wink* we don't want anyone to take out of context and edit into something incriminating. It's also draft night and the boys are ready to go back to school. &nbs...

Welcome back, family!  We're into the thick of July 2022 with "Titular Actors from the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Other Films" month and let me tell you...we watched a disaster BANGAR this week!  We reviewed the 2012 true life disaster film The Impossible starring Obi-wan Kenobi, Peter Parker (the good one), and Ann Darrow (aka Naomi Watts who - with as many acting credits as she has -...

Titular Marvel Cinematic Universe actors month creeps into week two. Is Ghostbusters: Afterlife all just nostalgia or is there more to be had in this legacy sequel.  The boys discuss if a kid based Ghostbusters movie is a good idea, if Zach Snyder should direct a Spider-man movie, and if Sony is a bad movie studio. Synopsis from IMDB : When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town...

Land of the free, home of the MOVIE DRAFT HOUSE!  We're starting off the month of July 2022 with a literal BANG as we let freedom ring with a new theme!  This month we're reviewing films which star a titular Marvel Cinematic Universe actor (think Robert Downey Jr., from Iron Man...but we're not using his bum ass).  This week we reviewed the 2020 Netflix original action flick EXTRACT...

Tis the end of Van Damme month.  Please don't cry.  Jeff will do enough of that for everyone.  But if you want more, look for 30 days of Van Damme in your podcast app. We close out June with Lionheart.  Van Damme and where he hides produce, Paul Rudd and his self affirmations, and it's draft night! IMDB Synopsis: An Ex-French Soldier begins participating in underground street f...

CHOO CHOO!  You hear that, friends?  That's the sound of the Van Damme train on the pod, chugging right along in our anniversary month!  This week your boys reviewed the 1992 action "classic" Universal Soldier, directed by Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Patriot, MOONFALL!) starring JCVD (and his ass) & Dolph Lundgren.  Tune in to find out why Jeff loves every Van Da...

Van Damme month is great right!?  This week them Draft House boys look at 1994's TImecop. It's got the splits, tight pants, and a time machine that disappears when it goes to the past. Best movie so far this month? Also, Jeff is reviewing even more Van Damme movies over on 30 Days of Van Damme .  What an idiot! IMDB Synopsis: Max Walker, an officer for a security agency that regulates ti...

It's anniversary month and all month long we're celebrating with some VAN DAMMAGE! This week we reviewed the 2008 Jean Claude Van Damme film JCVD directed by Mabrouk El Mechri starring - none other than YOUR BOY - JCVD and some other people you've never heard of.  Stick around while Jeff reminisces over JCVD, JCVD's ass, JCVD's chest (read: body), subtitle films, why dubbed films are the wors...

Happy Anniversary!  We celebrate one year of Movie Draft House by enjoying Van Damme month. First up is Hard Target!  Mark thinks everyone is already dead, Jeff tells you what makes a good mullet, and Mark wants to know how you would prefer to die.  IMDB Synopsis: A woman hires a drifter as her guide through New Orleans in search of her missing father. In the process, they discover...

Closing out "Movies Where Actors Star As Themselves" month here on the podcast, we reviewed the 1993 action classic The Last Action Hero directed by John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Tune in to find out why going to the dollar theater as a kid was the best, why Die Hard With A Vengeance was the best Die Hard (sorry Die Harder), why the 90's were the best era for action films...

It's Actors Playing Themselves month.  Can a movie starting Howard Stern as Howard Stern, featuring pornstars, hurtful stereotypes, and pig vomit, also have heart?  Mark and Jeff discuss watching movies with there era they were made in mind, our history with talk radio, and a special moment that, after you listen, you will need to buy new earbuds and underwear.  IMDB Synopsis: The a...

We're moving along in the month of May 2022 with the "Actors Playing Themselves" theme.  This week we reviewed the 2010 faux-documentary I'm Still Here from 2010 starring Joaquin Phoenix as himself.  We touch - hey! - on Hollywood penises, why Jeff loves this film so much but hates Casey Affleck, Jamie Kennedy in Hollywood (was he canceled?), and the legend Bob Saget!  Be sure to su...

New month, new theme, new music.  You know the deal by now. The theme this month is movies where actors play themselves. Why not go with a movie where nearly every actor is performing as themselves. This is the End shows us what a biblically accurate apocalypse will look like. Stand back Lahaye and Jenkins. Also a classic episode filled with digressions. Enjoying art by canceled performers, S...

As we've come to the end of "films that don't take place on Earth", we mercifully give you a film that, not only starts on Earth...but ends there too!  This week we reviewed the "animated masterpiece" (Mark's words) WALL-E from 2008 starring Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, and Jeff Garlin.  The film is directed by Andrew Stanton.  It's a Pixar film, so you already know! Listen in as we di...

"Movies that don't take place on Earth" month just keeps going doesn't it?  Fear not as the Schwartz is strong with this episode.  On an unrelated note Mark is on the look out for a VHS player.  Please reach out to him @iheardyouliked. IMDB Synopsis: A star-pilot for hire and his trusty sidekick must come to the rescue of a princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the e...

Welcome back to "Space Movies That Don't Take Place On Earth" month!  Hey...we did it!  We finally (after only one single episode) found a movie that does not have one scene on our good old planet!  Rejoice!  This week we reviewed the 2009 indie film Moon directed by Duncan Jones and starring Same Rockwell and cancelled-Kevin-Spacey's-voice as a robot.  Tune in to find out...