The Movie Draft Podcast

Tyler Beck of the Unsung Gems Podcast and Adam Palcher of Deep Dive Film School join Ethan & Ben in an auction draft of Directorial Debuts! Which movie will demand the highest price tag? Who will follow their heart and skip out on some HUGE movies? And who will ultimately put together the best team of Directorial Debuts?

Cameron Ritter of The Rolling Tape joins Ben & Ethan to rank the 11 best (?) Tom Hanks movies in a collaborative draft! Which 2 iconic movies don't make the list? And what absolute nonsense is Ethan up to this week? Tune in to find out!

Kevin Mikos joins Sophie and Ethan once again to draft screenplays - this time Adapted Screenplays! Who will steal someone else's number one pick? Who gets an absolute heater in the final round? It's anybody's draft as each person fights to put together a team of 6 of the very best Adapted Screenplays of all time. Who will win? It's up to you!

Marta McFly joins Ethan, Sophie, and Ben to attempt to live deliciously and collaboratively rank the 13 best A24 horror movies! In what is the wildest and funniest podcast to date, the attempts to work together fail (horrendously) while the picks get increasingly... bold as the board progresses to the top. Which movie will come out as the number one A24 horror flick? Tune in to find out!

Movies that take place in a single location are among the most legendary within the history of cinema, but which ones are the *best* ones? Jeremiah Battle joins Sophie and Ethan to draft some of the most iconic (and unique!) single locations movies. Who will push the boundaries on what constitutes a single location? Who will draft with their heart instead of their head? And most importantly, who will emerge the victor of the draft?

To celebrate the release of 'Saturday Night', Bryan Sudfield and Ben's partner Ashely join the pod to draft SNL Alum movies! With the rule of only being able to pick one movie per actor per team, which strategies will reign supreme? Will comedy be the go-to genre or will people get sneaky with dramatic films? Tune in to find out!

Aryan Patel joins Ben and Ethan on a journey to save Gotham, er, the pod. In what is easily the most hectic and maniacal collaborative draft yet, souls are crushed, darkness rises, and everybody lives long enough to see themselves become the villain as a definitive list of the 11 best Batman movies is created!

Doug Holler of the 'Looks Like A Movie' Podcast joins Ben, Ethan, & Sophie in the most intricate auction draft yet! With a field of over 200 films eligible to be bid on, which ones will go for big bucks and which ones will be value steals? The truth comes out about who has never seen iconic films, we discuss our first movies logged on Letterboxd, and MORE! Who will walk about the champion of the Coppola Family Auction Draft? Who knows!

Was 2014 a great year for movies? Sophie, Ethan, and their guest Jonathan (AKA The Film Drunk) try to answer that very question by drafting! As voted on by the viewers, we break down 2014 as a movie year, discuss the heavy hitters, and try to find some hidden gems in the mix! We comfort each other about our similar film tastes then immediately steal picks from each other. Just another classic episode of The Movie Draft Pod!

Yer' a wizard, Harry! The Holy Trinity of Ben, Sophie, and Ethan travel by Portkey to the magical world of Harry Potter! A franchise near and dear to each of them in different ways, the Wizarding World Collaborative Draft draws out the Slytherin in everybody! Which person will get vetoed 3 times in a row? And what movie will surprise at number 2? Tune in to find out!