2025 MEGA DRAFT (with Daniel Waters, Drea Clark, Katie Walsh, & Ryan Marker)
Screen Drafts
Clay Keller
4.7 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 354 minutes
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Summary
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/
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Welcome to Screen Drafts, the podcast where experts and enthusiasts competitively collaborate |
| 0:40.7 | in the creation of screen-centric best of lists. I'm Draft Commissioner Clay Keller, |
| 0:48.8 | and here with me, as always, my co-commissioner and color commentator, Clay Keller. |
| 0:53.6 | Okay. always my co-commissioner and color commentator Clay Keller going solo |
| 0:58.6 | Cheers |
| 0:59.5 | Flying solo today |
| 1:03.2 | My regular co-commish |
| 1:04.8 | The Fab 1, Mr. Ryan Marker, is at the draft table today |
| 1:10.3 | He's on the other side of the situation here this evening. |
| 1:15.4 | So I will be commissioning solo, but I think I can handle it. |
| 1:20.7 | We've done nearly 400 episodes of this show. |
| 1:23.7 | Wow. |
| 1:24.1 | I think I've got a basic grasp of how it works. |
| 1:29.3 | How it works and how this will all go down. |
| 1:31.6 | You'll be okay. |
| 1:32.3 | This is, Ryan, one of our great traditions here on screen drafts. |
| 1:38.5 | One of the traditions we've had since the beginning. |
| 1:40.4 | In fact, a tradition that precedes the existence of this show. |
| 1:45.0 | The very first ever screen draft was when you, not actually, you weren't even there. |
| 1:50.3 | It was when Darren Franch and I did the best of 2015 draft back on our old podcast, |
| 1:56.3 | the Vidiot's Video Store show. |
| 1:57.8 | So we have been doing these best of the year drafts for a decade now. |
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