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! 

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!

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)!

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!

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!

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!

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!

All Stars Phil Iscove (Podcast Like It's 1992) and Dana Schwartz (Noble Blood, Anatomy: A Love Story) go head-to-head for the 4th time, ranking the filmography of actor / producer NATALIE PORTMAN!

Newly minted Screen Drafts Hall-of-Famer Jordan Crucchiola (Feeling Seen) joins Screen Drafts Legend Darren Franich to rank the 7 best films that were booed by audiences at the Cannes Film Festival!

Vinegar Syndrome's very own Justin LaLiberty ("stuff") and Samm Deighan ("stuff," Twitch of the Death Nerve Podcast) join us to rank the 7 best films released by physical media label Vinegar Syndrome in its first ten years of existence! Joining them are Screen Drafts Booster Club Official Sponsor Jason Ruvaldt, and guest co-commish Drew McWeeny (The Hip Pocket Podcast).

Stars of the upcoming horror anthology Tenants, Clarke Wolfe & Fayna Sanchez, join the draft table to rank the 7 best feature HORROR ANTHOLOGIES ever made, with commissioner Clay and guest co-commish B.J. Colangelo (This Ends at Prom). 

Film critic / author Walter Chaw (A Walter Hill Film) and film critic / podcaster William Bibbiani (Critically Acclaimed Network) rank the 7 best films ever made about where we go after we die!

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!

Empire Magazine colleagues Chris Hewitt (The Empire Film Podcast) and Nick de Semlyen (The Last Action Heroes) join the draft table for the first time, collaboratively ranking the 7 best ACTION SEQUELS ever made!

Screenwriters Brian Duffield (Spontaneous, No One Will Save You), Mike Makowsky (Take Me, Bad Education), and Liz Hannah (The Post, Long Shot) rank all ten feature films with scripts written by the singular AARON SORKIN!

Co-commissioner Ryan Marker and newly-minted Screen Drafts All-Star Lucé Tomlin-Brenner (It's Always Halloween) rank all eight feature films directed by the late great Lynn Shelton! Joining Clay at the commissioner's table is Screen Drafts "Drea" Drea Clark (Maximum Film). 

Fresh off awards season, Jacqueline Coley (rottentomatoes.com) and Erik Anderson (awardswatch.com), rank the seven best films from the career of legendary two-time Oscar winner JODIE FOSTER!

Brian Collins (Horror Movie A Day) and Penny Cox (Reacher, FUBAR) rank the 7 best HORROR films released in the year 2009!

Hall of Famer Rebekah McKendry (Glorious) takes on Legend Graham Skipper (The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine) yet again, this time ranking the 7 best HORROR MUSICALS ever made! Joining the draft table are Patreon Official Sponsor Jason Ruvaldt, and guest co-commish B.J. Colangelo (This Ends at Prom).

Screen Drafts rookie Katie Walsh (The Los Angeles Times, Miami Nice) joins Screen Drafts Hall of Famer Drea Clark (Bentonville Film Festival, Maximum Film) and Screen Drafts Legend Billy Ray Brewton (Make Believe Film Festival) to rank the 20 best films of the year 2023 with Screen Drafts commissioner Clay Keller (Screen Drafts)! 

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Join Clay, Ryan, and Darren Franich as they attempt to rank the 5 films of the INDIANA JONES Franchise!

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Get ready for a Kingcast x Screen Drafts epic crossover event, as Kingcast hosts Scott Wampler and Eric Vespe, and fan-favorite guests Wynter Mitchell and Louis Peitzman, sit down at the virtual draft table to rank the top 13 best features adapted from the work of The King of Horror!

It's Aussie vs. Kiwi as Blake Howard (One Heat Minute Productions) and Elric Kane (Pure Cinema Podcast, Colors of the Dark) competitively / collaboratively rank the Top 7 OZPLOITATION films! Joining us Down Under are "Official Sponsor" Patron Chris Owens, and guest co-commish Alexei Toliopoulos!

Special thanks to Chris for supporting the show and picking this rough and rowdy topic!

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!

LIVE (virtually) from Seattle Queer Film Festival '23 it's critic / author Kyle Turner (The Queer Film Guide) & filmmaker Juan Barquin ranking the Top 7 best QUEER COMEDIES ever made! 

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Scorsese Month comes to an epic conclusion as Roxana Hadadi (Vulture), Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones), and Oriana Nudo (Hollywood-ography) complete the month-long ranking of all 30 Martin Scorsese feature films by placing the Top 10 in order from #10 to #1!

It's week 4 of SCORSESE MONTH, and Team Maximum Film, hosts Drea Clark and Ify Nwadiwe, and frequent guest Inkoo Kang (The New Yorker), join us at the draft table to rank the 11 best films produced, but not directed, by Martin Scorsese!

The SCORSESE SUPER DRAFT continues, with guest GMs Katey Rich (Vanity Fair), and This Had Oscar Buzz's Joe Reid & Chris Feil reuniting at the draft table to make picks #20 through #11. Joining Clay at the commissioner's table is PART ONE GM Phil Iscove (Podcast Like It's 1992), to provide context, color commentary, and contrition for what occurred in PART ONE. 

It's week 2 of SCORSESE MONTH, and we are turning our attention to a group of films that are near and dear to Marty's heart: the films that have been restored by the World Cinema Project, and released on DVD and Blu-Ray by The Criterion Collection. Marya E. Gates (RogerEbert.com) returns to the draft table to rank the top 7 "best" of these films with co-commissioner Ryan Marker, while Drew McWeeny (the upcoming The Hip Pocket podcast) joins Clay as guest co-commissioner. 

Scorsese Month on Screen Drafts begins with the past and current hosts of the Podcast Like It's... podcast franchise, Phil Iscove, Kenny Neibart, and Emily St. James, making picks #30 to #21 on the all-encompassing MARTIN SCORSESE SUPER DRAFT!

In two weeks the Super Draft continues, with Joe Reid, Chris Feil, and Katey Rich making picks #20 to #11.

It's Kristmas Eve, and we're celebrating in true Screen Drafts fashion, by inviting Thomas Grabinski (The Olivier Assayas Super Draft, Irma? Yep!) over to help us rank the 13 best films starring one of our favorite actors: the legendary Juliette Binoche!

Screen Drafts rookies Jordan Morris (Youth Group, Jordan, Jesse, Go!) and Gina Ippolito (New Rockstars, Knowing is Half the Podcast) to rank the 7 best ACTION MOVIES starring actors who have qualified for membership in the AARP!

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Chief TV Critics Alan Sepinwall (Rolling Stone) and Daniel Fienberg (The Hollywood Reporter) are back ranking a decade of SPORTS films, this time focusing on the 1980s, and this time with Linda Holmes (Pop Culture Happy Hour, Flying Solo) joining the squad!

A Screen Drafts tradition continues! As their season on entertainment legend Judy Garland comes to a close, Hollywood-ography hosts Oriana Nudo and Maureen Lee Lenker join us at the draft table to rank her 7 best films!

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!

It's the grand finale of Animation Month! We are joined again by GMs Rebekah McKendry (Colors of the Dark) B.J. Colangelo (This Ends at Prom), Dane McDonald (Chasing Chalamet), and Louis Peitzman (Vulture, The New York Time) to finish what they started: the DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS MEGA DRAFT! In PART TWO, they competitively / collaboratively rank picks 13-1, and crown the #1 best feature film made during the first 100 years of Walt Disney Animation Studios.

Animation Month takes a hard left turn as Harmony Colangelo (This Ends at Prom) and William Bibbiani (Critically Acclaimed Network) rank the entire feature filmography of the brazenly original alternative animation legend, Ralph Bakshi! Joining as co-commissioner is Screen Drafts Legend Billy Ray Brewton.

100 years. 61 animated feature films. 1 groundbreaking animation studio.

Four returning Screen Drafts vets, Rebekah McKendry (Colors of the Dark), B.J. Colangelo (This Ends at Prom), Dane McDonald (Chasing Chalamet), and Louis Peitzman (The New York Times, Vulture) celebrate the centennial anniversary of Walt Disney Animation Studios by collaboratively ranking the 26 best feature films produced by the company in its 100 year history! In Part One, our guest GMs rank picks 26-14. In two weeks they will return to rank picks 13-1!

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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!

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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! 

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). 

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YOUTH GROUP

HERCULES

HOLLYWOOD PRIDE

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. 

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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!

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. 

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!

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! 

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!

SCREAM Drafts VII kicks off with "best friends" Billy Ray Brewton and Kyle Anderson ranking the 7 best horror films from the year 1977!

In week 2 of SCREAM Drafts 2024, Justin LaLiberty and Samm Deighan of Vinegar Syndrome return to rank the 7 best EROTIC HORROR films!

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!