The Movie Draft Podcast

The Sundance Film Festival has been a staple of the independent film community for over 40 years, and with it celebrating its final year in Park City, we decided to draft some movies that premiered there! Gabriel and Sena of No Notes and The Cinegogue join Ethan and Ben in a collaborative draft with speed, attitude, and betrayal! Some big movies make the board and even bigger ones miss it... what will the results be?

0:00 - Intro

19:32 - Let's Draft!

01:17:12 - The Team & Honorable Mentions

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What's more prestigious in the physical media space than the Criterion Collection? Marta McFly and Philip Marinello join Ethan to draft movies of all sorts of genres, styles, and substance in The Criterion Collection Draft! Ethan's first blind buy is revealed to be pretty deranged, Marta pushes the boundaries of what's eligible (like usual), and Philip tries to survive his first draft! Who will win?

0:00 - Intro

20:20 - Let's Draft

1:30:44 - The Teams & Honorable Mentions

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What makes up a movie star? Erik Anderson of Awards Watch and Danny Jarabek of The Rolling Tape join Ethan to draft, well, movie stars! We discuss if Timothee Chalamet is our number 1 movie star in Hollywood right now, what an aging movie star looks like, how Hollywood defines movie stars, and give pitches for drafting movie stars in some interesting categories!

0:00 - Intro

24:46 - Let's Draft!

2:31:59 - The Teams & Honorable Mentions

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2026 is officially here! And with that comes an entirely new slate of upcoming movies! Sophia Ciminello, Gooch, and Gabriel Frieberg of The Cinegogue and No Notes join Ethan for The 2026 Movie Auction Draft! Which movie will demand someone's entire budget? Who opts to make savvy budget picks? And how many movies are drafted that barely anybody has heard of? All answers are revealed in the draft!

0:00 - Intro

21:16 - Let's Draft!

2:10:15 - The Teams & Honorable Mentions

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Was 2025 a good year for movies? With the year coming to a close, The Holy Trinity reunites for their annual tradition of revisiting the year's auction draft as the final episode of the year! Sophie argues for the greatness of the year, Ben makes a case for why it's important to draft movies you've seen, and Ethan crashes out. What did you expect?

0:00 - Intro

24:56 - Let's Draft!

1:54:37 - The Teams & Honorable Mentions

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Tom Cruise is a man of legend. He is a man of mythos. And most importantly, he is a man of movies. But which movies are his best in his sprawling career? Aryan P and Kam from The Rolling Tape join Ben and Ethan in one of the most deranged Auction Drafts in Movie Draft Podcast history. Who is telling the truth about the movies and performances they love, hate, or have never seen? Tune in to find out!

0:00 - Intro

20:14 - Let's Draft!

2:27:05 - The Teams and Honorable Mentions

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Sometimes you just wish you could watch a movie on the big screen! In a dark room with strangers, the power of a movie theater overtaking you. So, we decided to draft exactly that! Gooch, Danny, and Des all join Ethan for The Theatrical Re-Release Wishlist Draft where they all talk about movies through the decades they'd want to see on the silver screen!

0:00 - Intro

30:29 - Let's Draft!

2:05:26 - The Teams & Honorable Mentions

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For our 100th episode, we decided to talk about one of the greatest filmmakers to ever do it - Stanlet Kubrick! Adam Palcher and Tyler Whitmore join Ben & Ethan in a collaborative draft for the ages where nearly every single ability is used, movies end up where they don't belong, and hearts are broken!

0:00 - Intro

25:30 - Let's Draft!

2:06:08 - The Team!

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Disney has it all - Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, Searchlight, you name it, they've probably owned it at some point or another. But which movies are the best? Or most near and dear to our hearts through their storied history of distribution? Bobbi Miller, Des, and Ryan McQuade join Ethan & Ben for a near-mega draft of wild picks and wild takes!

0:00 - Intro

24:51 - Let's Draft!

2:12:03 - The Teams & Honorable Mentions

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Movie Trilogies have been around for a lot longer than you probably think and are comprised of some of the very best film franchises out there! But which trilogies are the best? Tyler Beck joins Ben and Ethan to spend some fake money and get an answer to that very question in The Movie Trilogy Draft! We talk Star Wars news, Avatar box office, and which trilogies really are the best.

0:00 - Intro

25:12 - Let's Draft!

02:13:04 - The Teams & Honorable Mentions

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