Screen Drafts

Clay Keller and Ryan Marker

Experts and enthusiasts competitively collaborate in the creation of screen-centric "best of" lists. Hosted by draft commissioners Clay Keller and Ryan Marker. "Most impeccable taste in guests." - Entertainment Weekly

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March 17 · 3 hr 55 min
HOLLY HUNTER mini-MEGA (with Phil Iscove, Clay Keller, Adam B. Vary, and Official Sponsor Jim Laczkowski)
Commissioner Clay is in the hot seat, alongside Screen Drafts Hall of Famer Phil Iscove (Podcast Like It's), competitively / collaboratively ranking the nine BEST films from the filmography of one of his favorite actresses: the incredible, incomparable HOLLY HUNTER! They are joined by guest co-commish Adam B. Vary, and Official Sponsor Jim Laczkowski (The Director's Club), who brought the whole thing together! Check out Jim's work by visiting jimlaczkowski.net, and listen to his commentary track on the new Vinegar Syndrome 4K release of At Close Range! Want more Screen Drafts? Become a Booster! For just $5 a month get ad-free Main Feed episodes, plus monthly installments of The Franchise mini-Super Draft, The Marathon, Speed Drafts, and the Cool Kids Criterion Club Corner. Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to join the Club and support independent media!
March 10 · 5 hr 53 min
2025 MEGA DRAFT (with Daniel Waters, Drea Clark, Katie Walsh, & Ryan Marker)
The biggest Draft of the year is here! Rookie / screenwriter Daniel Waters (Heathers, Batman Returns) joins Legend Drea Clark (Maximum Film), All-Star / film critic Katie Walsh, and the Co-Commish Mr. Ryan Marker to definitively rank the 20 BEST FILMS from the year 2025! This episode is brought to you by the Film and Media Archive at WashU Libraries, celebrating 60 years of Kartemquin Films! This summer, experience the diversity of the Kartemquin catalogue with FREE screenings of Steve James' Hoop Dreams, Bill Siegel's The Trials of Muhammad Ali, and Jerry Blumenthal & Gordon Quinn's Golub, all FREE at the Hi-Pointe Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri. More details on dates and speakers to come! Visit https://library.washu.edu/spec/kartemquin/ for more information on the WashU Film and Media Archive, and Kartemquin Films. WashU Libraries is also sponsoring a FREE screening of The Maid of McMillan at the Hi-Pointe on April 19th, to celebrate the film's recent entry to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry! From WashU University Archives, the The Maid of McMillian is the first known student film, and it will be paired with Harold Lloyd's classic college story, The Freshman. https://library.washu.edu/events/the-maid-of-mcmillan-the-freshman-screening/
March 3 · 3 hr 46 min
1980 mini-MEGA (with Drew McWeeny & Bobby Roberts)
Two of the things we love on Screen Drafts are ongoing Draft series, and the films of the 1980s. So it stands to reason that we would eventually launch an occasional Draft series going through each and every year of the 1980s with '80s expert, and Screen Drafts MVP, Drew McWeeny (The Last '80s Newsletter You'll Ever Need)! In the inaugural installment, Drew is joined by his old buddy and former '80s All Over producer Bobby Roberts to competitively / collaboratively rank the 9 best films released in the U.S. during the first year of the decade: 1980! Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to join the Booster Club, and get ad-free Main Feed Drafts plus four bonus episodes every month!
February 24 · 2 hr 35 min
THE HIRE SUPER DRAFT (with Blake Howard & Clay Keller)
The years were 2001 and 2002 (and 2016). The website was www.bmwfilms.com. The directors were John Frankenheimer, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-Wai, Guy Ritchie, Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Woo, Joe Carnahan, Tony Scott, and Neill Blomkamp. The Driver was Clive Owen. The year is 2026. The guest GM is Blake Howard (One Heat Minute Productions). This is the Super Draft of executive producer David Fincher's THE HIRE. Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to join the Booster Club, and get ad-free Main Feed Drafts plus four bonus episodes every month!
February 17 · 3 hr 28 min
HAWKE + LINKLATER SUPER DRAFT (with Marya E. Gates & Robert Daniels)
Ethan Hawke-ologist and Screen Drafts All-Star Marya E. Gates (Cinema Her Way) is joined by film critic and Screen Drafts rookie Robert Daniels to rank all 9 feature film collaborations between actor ETHAN HAWKE and director RICHARD LINKLATER! Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to join the Booster Club, and get ad-free Main Feed Drafts plus four bonus episodes every month!
February 10 · 1 hr 44 min
ACTION HORROR (with Justin LaLiberty & Brandon Streussnig)
Vinegar Syndrome's Justin LaLiberty is joined by film writer Brandon Streussnig for the definitive competitive / collaborative ranking of the best movies that bring frights and fights in equal measure! Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to join the Booster Club, and get ad-free Main Feed Drafts plus four bonus episodes every month!
February 3 · 2 hr 11 min
HUNGER GAMES Franchise mini-SUPER DRAFT (Booster Club Sneak Peek!)
Enjoy this special SNEAK PEEK behind the Booster Club paywall, and may the odds be ever in your favor... Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to join the Club, and get ad-free Main Feed Drafts plus four bonus episodes every month!
January 27 · 4 hr 50 min
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON SUPER DRAFT (with Katie Walsh, Cory Everett, & Ryan Marker)
The co-commish, Mr. Ryan Marker, is joined by Screen Drafts All-Star Katie Walsh and Screen Drafts Rookie / Cinephile Game creator Cory Everett for the grand finale of ANDERSON MONTH! Check out the PTA MUSIC VIDEOS DRAFT with Ryan Marker & Darren Franich coming to the Booster Club SOON! Want more Screen Drafts? Become a Booster! For just $5 a month get ad-free Main Feed episodes, plus monthly installments of The Franchise mini-Super Draft, The Marathon, Speed Drafts, and the Cool Kids Criterion Club Corner. Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to join the Club!
January 20 · 4 hr 52 min
BRAD ANDERSON SUPER DRAFT (with Darren Franich, Graham Skipper, & Oriana Nudo)
Week three of ANDERSON MONTH is a big one! First, we're inaugurating Oriana Nudo as our newest Screen Drafts Legend, then Oriana is joining fellow Legends Darren Franich and Graham Skipper in ranking the full feature filmography of undersung genre journeyman BRAD ANDERSON! Next week: the PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON SUPER DRAFT with Commissioner Ryan, Katie Walsh, Cory Everett, and guest co-commish Drew McWeeny. Want more Screen Drafts? Become a Booster! For just $5 a month get ad-free Main Feed episodes, plus monthly installments of The Franchise mini-Super Draft, The Marathon, Speed Drafts, and the Cool Kids Criterion Club Corner. Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to join the Club!
January 13 · 5 hr 31 min
WES ANDERSON SUPER DRAFT (with Bryan Cogman, Billy Ray Brewton, Drea Clark, & Clay Keller)
It's week two of ANDERSON MONTH, and five Screen Drafts Legends are sitting down at an immaculately arranged Draft Table to competitively / collaboratively rank the 13 feature film of the inimitable (not for lack of trying) American auteur WES ANDERSON! Want more Screen Drafts? Become a Booster! For just $5 a month get ad-free Main Feed episodes, plus monthly installments of The Franchise mini-Super Draft, The Marathon, Speed Drafts, and the Cool Kids Criterion Club Corner. Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to join the Club!
January 6 · 5 hr 45 min
PAUL W.S. ANDERSON SUPER DRAFT (with Jordan Crucchiola, William Bibbiani, & Dave Schilling)
ANDERSON MONTH BEGINS! Before Wes, before Paul Thomas, before Brad, there was... PAUL W.S.! Screen Drafts veterans Jordan Crucchiola (Feeling Seen), William Bibbiani (Critically Acclaimed Network) and Dave Schilling (Horror's New Wave) join us at the Draft Table to rank all 15 feature-length films from populist techno-auteur PAUL W.S. ANDERSON. Strap in for what may be the most raucous theme month kick-off that Screen Drafts has ever witnessed! Want more Screen Drafts? Become a Booster! For just $5 a month get ad-free Main Feed episodes, plus monthly installments of The Franchise mini-Super Draft, The Marathon, Speed Drafts, and the Cool Kids Criterion Club Corner. Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to join the Club!
Dec 30, 2025 · 4 hr 14 min
2000 mini-MEGA (with Roxana Hadadi, Emily St. James, Darren Franich, & Clay Keller, and Joe Reid)
We're closing out the 25th (er, 26th?) year of the 21st Century by looking back at the 1st year of the 21st century! Commissioner Clay is joined by Screen Drafts All-Stars Emily St. James (Woodworking, Podcast Like It's the 2000s), and Roxana Hadadi (Vulture), and Screen Drafts Legend Darren Franich (The Draftland Scene) to competitively / collaboratively selecting the 13 best films released in the year 2000, with Hall of Famer Joe Reid (This Had Oscar Buzz) handling commissioner duties alongside Mr. Ryan Marker. See you in 2026, everyone! Want more Screen Drafts? Become a Booster! For just $5 a month get ad-free Main Feed episodes, plus monthly installments of The Franchise mini-Super Draft, The Marathon, Speed Drafts, and the Cool Kids Criterion Club Corner. Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to join the Club!
Dec 24, 2025 · 2 hr 31 min
MIRIAM HOPKINS (with Clay & Ryan)
It's Kristmas Eve 2025 and the commissioners are celebrating the filmography of undersung early Hollywood great MIRIAM HOPKINS! MIR-ry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone! Want more Screen Drafts? Become a Booster! For just $5 a month get ad-free Main Feed episodes, plus monthly installments of The Franchise mini-Super Draft, The Marathon, Speed Drafts, and the Cool Kids Criterion Club Corner. Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to join the Club!
Dec 16, 2025 · 3 hr 48 min
SIDNEY POITIER mini-MEGA (with Oriana Nudo, Maureen Lee Lenker, & Imani Davis)
One of our favorite traditions continues! Screen Drafts MVPs / hosts of the Hollywood-ography podcast Oriana Nudo and Maureen Lee Lenker have spent the last year and a half watching every single feature film made by legendary Oscar winner SIDNEY POITIER, and now, at the conclusion of their Poitier season, they are joined at the Draft Table by American Cinematheque programmer Imani Davis to competitively / collaboratively rank the 11 BEST! Want more Screen Drafts? Become a Booster! For just $5 a month get ad-free Main Feed episodes, plus monthly installments of The Franchise mini-Super Draft, The Marathon, Speed Drafts, and the Cool Kids Criterion Club Corner. Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to join the Club!
Dec 9, 2025 · 2 hr 47 min
SNOW HORROR (with Josh Miller & Henry McComas)
AKA "Snowy Horror," AKA "Blood in the Snow." Minnesotan Josh Miller (Violent Night, Violent Night 2) and Alaskan Henry McComas (The Camp Host, Wolfman's Got Nards) join us at the Draft Table to rank the 7 best freezing-cold, terrifyingly snowbound horror movies! Listen to Main Feed Drafts ad-free and get four bonus episodes monthly in the Screen Drafts Booster Club! Sign up at www.patreon.com/screendrafts.
Dec 2, 2025 · 3 hr 17 min
YORGOS LANTHIMOS SUPER DRAFT (with Thomas Grabinski & Riley Stearns)
Writer / director Riley Stearns (The Art of Self-Defense) makes his long-awaited return to the Draft Table, joining All-Star Thomas Grabinski (Atropia) in a competitive / collaborative ranking of all 9 feature films directed by Bugonia filmmaker YORGOS LANTHIMOS! 'Tis the season to become a Booster! Get four bonus episodes a month and ad-free Main Feed drafts by joining our Patreon! www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Nov 27, 2025 · 2 hr 58 min
ROBERT ALTMAN SUPER DRAFT: PART ONE (with Mitchell Beaupre & Ryan Marker, and Alonso Duralde)
The co-commish, Mr. Ryan Marker, has been asking for a Draft of the films of great American auteur Robert Altman since the very beginning of Screen Drafts. Today, he's finally getting his wish. In PART ONE of the four part, 35-title ROBERT ALTMAN SUPER DRAFT, Ryan and Clay are joined by guest GM Mitchell Beaupre (Letterboxd) and guest commish Alonso Duralde (Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas) to place picks 35-29 on what will be the longest list in the history of the show! The ROBERT ALTMAN SUPER DRAFT will continue with PART TWO in February 2026! Join the Booster Club to access ad-free Main Feed Drafts and four bonus episodes a month! Sign up at www.patreon.com/screendrafts
Nov 25, 2025 · 4 hr 26 min
MOVIES ABOUT THEATRE mini-MEGA (with Joanna Robinson, Bryan Cogman, Maureen Lee Lenker, & Graham Skipper)
The guest GMs from the beloved Shakespeare Trilogy, Joanna Robinson (The Ringer), Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones), Maureen Lee Lenker (A Star is Scorned) and Graham Skipper (The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine), have reunited at the Draft Table, this time to competitively / collaboratively rank the 13 best movies every made about THE THEATRE! Get four bonus episodes a month and ad-free Main Feed drafts by becoming a Screen Drafts Booster! Sign up at patreon.com/screendrafts
Nov 18, 2025 · 6 hr 26 min
PAUL VERHOEVEN SUPER DRAFT (with Darren Franich, Louis Peitzman, & Jordan Crucchiola)
Screen Drafts veterans Darren Franich (The Draftland Scene), Louis Peitzman (Vulture, Chasing Amy Adams) and Jordan Crucchiola (Feeling Seen), lay siege to the Draft Table for an epic collaborative / competitive ranking of all 17 feature films directed by the Dutch legend PAUL VERHOEVEN! WARNING: Our geography is a little iffy at times on this one, but our Verhoeven opinions are definitively correct and above reproach! Get ad-free Drafts and tons of monthly bonus episodes by becoming a Screen Drafts Booster! Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to join the club!
Nov 10, 2025 · 1 hr 57 min
CHESS (with William Bibbiani & Darren Mooney)
Join GMs William Bibbiani (Critically Acclaimed Network) and Darren Mooney (Second Wind) as they rank the 7 best FILMS ever made about the game of CHESS! NOTE: This Draft was produced as part of a larger project that never ended up coming to fruition. Producer Ryan Verrill took the time to pain-stakingly remove all references to that project so that this Draft could finally be released to the public. As such, there are moments when it is apparent that something has been cut out. But do not fret! All picks, gameplay, and movie discussion remain fully intact. We are pleased to finally be able to present this Draft, and we hope you enjoy it! Want to see the VIDEO version of this Draft? Become a Booster! Visit www.patreon.com/screendrafts to find out how!