About Screen Rant

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 sometimes controversial movie reviews.

The goal here at Screen Rant is to cover stories and review movies 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 Screen Rant.

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.

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.

Follow Screen Rant on Twitter @screenrant

The Team:

Kofi Outlaw (Senior Editor)

Kofi Outlaw is originally from Philadelphia, PA but now lives in New York City.

Addiction to comic books, movies and a love of writing sent Kofi to the University of Pittsburgh where he received a dual B.A. in Writing and Literature with a minor in Film Studies. More recently, Kofi received his graduate MFA in Writing from The New School.

Kofi loves all kinds of films from brainless blockbusters to fancy art-house pleasers. He says that nothing really specific makes him geek out all that much.

Follow Kofi on Twitter: @ppnkof

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Rob Keyes (Editor)

Robert Keyes (Screen Rant‘s only Canadian writer), started writing for the site in September 2008. He was offered a writing position based on his participation on the site as a long-time commenter and story-submitter. Not long later, Rob became an Editor for the site where he helps publish the growing number of articles we write.

Rob is also the Editor-in-Chief of the newly launched sister site for Screen Rant, GameRant.com which keeping in the style of the flagship site, covers video game news/previews/reviews (without the sugar coating of course).

Rob is 24 years old with a Masters Degree in Economics. He wishes to eventually mesh his business, computer, economics and finance backgrounds with his love of the media entertainment industry with hopes of a career in one of the fields down the road. (So if you work for a major studio and have an open position – contact him!).

Rob is an avid viewer of all kinds of film and television and is also a big video gamer. Much of his spare time is spent with friends playing and/or watching sports and all of the entertainment forms listed above. That is, when he’s not working at his day job or the two sites.

Follow Rob on Twitter @rob_keyes

Follow Game Rant on Twitter @gamerant

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Ben Kendrick

Ben Kendrick is a graduate of the New School’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, with an emphasis in fiction. Currently, he’s nearing completion on his novel: How I Saw Myself on America’s Most Wanted and serves as an editor-at-large for the literary magazine LIT.

Ben has been passionate about movies ever since standing in line for a midnight showing of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when he was eight. As a result of his background in creative writing, Ben is drawn to films that make story and character a priority; however, that never stops him from enjoying a range of Hollywood offerings – from blockbuster action flicks to campy so-bad-they’re-good B-movies. He’s also an avid gamer and is a regular contributor at Screen Rant’s sister site, Game Rant. Visit Ben’s website if for no other reason than to get a better sense of the conditions under which he was conceived.

Follow Ben on Twitter @ benkendrick.

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Anthony Ocasio

As Screen Rant’s television editor, I get yelled at by fans of every television show on the air. It’s not my fault that your favorite show is terrible. Kidding! (kind of)

E-Mail: acorants@gmail.com

Twitter: @anthonyocasio

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Sandy Schaefer

Sandy Schaefer knows far too much about theoretical mathematics and anthropology. He spends most of his time nowadays writing about, reviewing, and making movies.

Follow him on Twitter @feynmanguy.

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Michael Crider

Michael Crider is a native-born Texan, as well as a movie and TV junkie. While his favorites tend to be science fiction and off-kilter comedies, he’s not above a Law & Order rerun, either. Some of his all-time favorites include Firefly, Star Trek: Deep Space 9, Battlestar Galactica (2003), News Radio, Scrubs and Dead Like Me. When not writing for Screen Rant, Michael’s a freelance graphic designer.

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Ben Moore

Benjamin Andrew Moore is a freelance writer living in New York, NY. He loves movies, television, comic books, literature, sarcasm, various forms of cheesecake, and everything else that’s awesome. His personal website is BenjaminAndrewMoore.com.

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Mike Eisenberg

Mike has written for Screen Rant since March of 2010. He has used his skills as a filmmaker to create mashup videos like Toy Story 3: Inception and bring extensive video coverage to Comic-Con each year. When he isn’t overloading the servers of Twitter and Facebook with relentless updates, Mike spends most of his time obsessing over Christopher Nolan’s next movie.

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Roth Cornet

Jennings Roth Cornet is a creative artist whose films, commercials and other produced works have been broadcast on network tv, cable and the Internet; as have her on screen theatrical and hosting performances.

Roth currently works as a staff writer for entertainment news outlets such as Screen Rant and the AMC movie blog. She freelances doing both written and on-camera coverage of red-carpet events, press junkets and celebrity interviews. In addition, she works as a writer, producer and actor on the AT&T sponsored comedy web-series “Fanboy Funhouse” on Craveonline.com where she puppeteers a mercurial, and oddly lascivious, brain in a jar; and does a variety of sketch characters.

Her narrative short film “Muse” won the prestigious Princess Grace Award and Grant, and with that grant money Roth traveled to the West Bank to shoot and direct her own documentary short. Upon graduation she continued her work as a freelance writer, producer and director. In addition, she spent time working in marketing and acquisitions for an international documentary distribution company where she acquired films such as “Operation Homecoming,” which went on to be nominated for an Academy Award. Subsequently, Roth went on to work as a production supervisor and producer for commercials, DVD features, and cross-platform launches for television shows. Projects included “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “My Name Is Earl,” “Family Guy,” and many more.

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Rob Frappier

Rob Frappier is a Chicago-based writer and marketing professional. He has been writing for Screen Rant since the summer of 2009. When he’s not scrounging for back issues of ‘Legends of the Dark Knight’ or re-watching Die Hard for the 7,128th time, he loves spending time with his wife, Nicole, and their loyal dog, Astro.

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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 cites many movies as his favorites, 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.

Follow Niall on Twitter: @CorduroyBrowne