Screen Rant had a humble start back in 2003 as a place to rant about some of the dumber stuff related to the movie industry. Although there was absolutely no plan to do anything beyond venting to a few online friends about movies, over the years the site has grown to cover more and more TV and movie news (and not just the dumb stuff) along with the occasional movie review.
The goal here at Screen Rant is to cover stories from a middle ground/average person perspective. We try to take a common sense approach to movie and TV news: stepping back and looking at the big picture to determine whether something is a good idea… or an idiotic one.
Movie reviews are written from the point of view of “was it a fun/exciting/scary/compelling movie” instead of from some high-brow, esoteric level that only other movie critics will relate to. On the other hand a movie has to have more than just big stars and fantastic special effects to be considered great by the folks at ScreenRant.com.
About the opinionated guy running the site
That would be me, Vic Holtreman. I’m originally from New Jersey and currently live in Utah. I’ve served in the Navy, and have been employed as a door to door salesman, construction worker, car salesman, waiter, mechanical drafter, mechanical designer, system administrator, and am now self-employed, running a number of websites about various topics.
I’ve always been a huge Sci Fi fan, starting with watching The Twilight Zone and Outer Limits when I was still too young for kindergarten, graduating to Star Trek reruns in the 70’s and of course fully initiated by the original Star Wars. I’m a big comic book fan (still buy ‘em) and lover of superhero, action movies and the occasional horror flick.
I’d love to hear from you so don’t be bashful about dropping me a line! You can contact me by using our (you guessed it!) contact page.
Bruce Simmons
Bruce has also had a myriad of careers: Security Administration, Research Analyst, Network Adminstrater, and even Real Estate Agent. At the moment, he “works for the man” as an Applications Programmer in the Menlo Park, CA area (San Francisco Bay).
He started writing ‘How To’ newsletters for public consumption back in 1999 when he was a Network Administrator - his desire (or compulsion) to inform the world of things cool and useful kicked in and he was hooked. He can’t seem to fight it, unless work gets in the way or his wife wants him to do something.
He runs a few websites and blogs in his supposedly free time, and is a contributing blogger to www.siriusbackstage.com, Nascar-Bits and www.topix.net in the NASCAR and Entertainment sections.
Bruce is a big Sci Fi, comic book, fan and massive NASCAR fan (I can’t explain it, but I’m sure there’s some common ground somewhere in there). As far as Sci Fi goes he’s a fan of Stargate (all of them), Highlander, Star Trek, and most movies that bring his comic book heroes to life. He also have a soft spot from his younger years for Godzilla, Johnny Soko and his Giant Robot, Ultra Man, and more recently: Predator. As far as comic books go, he enjoys Iron Man, Batman, & Green Lantern. He was pretty tickled when they put out a comic book that pitted Batman against Predator, two of his faves. He’s also a sucker for certain cross-overs.
Bruce is excited about his opportunities here at Screen Rant and looks forward to teasing and tormenting you with his perspectives.
As Stan Lee used to say: ‘Nuff Said.
Niall Browne
Irish born Niall Browne (currently living in England) is a life long movie fan. He studied English and Film at University where he got to indulge in his love of filmmaking as well as the theoretical side of film. Niall has written extensively on film and conducted many interviews with film-makers.
Niall’s cites many movies as his favourite, including: The Empire Strikes Back, Ed Wood, J.F.K, Braveheart and Dances with Wolves. He is also a huge fan of the James Bond franchise (his first cinematic memory is watching A View To A Kill), and also Star Wars and Batman (including the comic books).
Apart from film Niall is also deeply interested in music and literature.
Heath McKnight
Heath has been following movie news regularly since issue 0 of Cinescape magazine debuted in 1994 with the plot for the then-cancelled Aliens vs. Predator movie. Using his friend’s dial-up, he would occasionally write movie news on the early internet forums known as BB Boards.
In 1995, he began writing about movie news in the print version of Advanced Iron, the premiere Iron Man fanzine, focusing on sci-fi, fantasy and action movies, TV and video game news, and developments on the Iron Man film (he’s a big Iron Man fan). He keeps folks at the Advanced Iron forum up to date on the latest movie news and still writes for the e-zine version of Advanced Iron under the name “Metal Head”.
Heath also writes about digital cinema and video technology for websites like Digital Media Net and Videomaker magazine. In addition, he is also a filmmaker whose latest feature, 9:04 AM, is making the film festival rounds.
He says that writing for Screen Rant is a dream come true for him, so I think we need to work a bit on his goal setting. 
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