DVD David's love for the movies began in college, where many midnight showings of classic films seeded a deep passion for the medium. When laser discs arrived as a high quality video alternative, David began collecting film classic for home viewing with that format. When dvd went mainstream, David traded in his laser discs for his first dvd player. As his collection grew, he felt a need to express his opinion about the dvds he was purchasing so he started dvdcorner.net. Over the years, David has had different reviewers help contribute to the site and is thrilled to have Dave Anderson join him in writing reviews for the site. David continues to write reviews while maintaining the site.
His most exciting experience with the site was being invited to Hollywood by Dreamworks (along with other webmasters) for a special screening of Gladiator, with Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe in attendance.
David lives in the rainy Pacific Northwest with his family and watches a lot of dvds in his home theater. His theater consists of a Sony HS10 1080i projector, Oppo dvd player, Panasonic Blu-Ray player, Pioneer receiver, and Acoustic Research speakers. He also enjoys digital photography, music, The Beatles and Macs.
David is constantly looking for new features to add to site and welcomes readers input into his site.
Dave Anderson lives, teaches and watches movies in the Portland area. He's married with two daughters, two cats & one mortgage. In addition to writing reviews for DVDCorner.Net, he writes music reviews, articles & interviews for ElectricBasement.com. Off and on, he's been working on a book, tentatively titled Movies of Mass Destruction, about his favorite guilty pleasure, disaster films.
In addition to movies, he loves NASCAR, cooking breakfast, Stephen King, cartooning, caffeine, jet-skiing, Motorhead & poker (even though he sucks at it). He hates cell-phones, Adam Sandler, rap music, reality TV & cleaning house. Dave's favorite movies are Jaws, The Godfather, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Sorcerer, The Good the Bad & the Ugly, The Usual Suspects, The Longest Yard, JFK & The Towering Inferno.
Nick Lyons
Nick Lyons has been a lifelong movie fan. In high school, he wrote film reviews for the school paper and various websites like Chud. Over the past few years, Nick has moved on to DVD reviews by writing for sites like DVD Talk and now DVD Corner. He has recently published a book titled ATTACK OF THE SCI-FI TRIVIA (available on Amazon.com). His second book (FIREBREATHING FANTASY TRIVIA) is due out shortly. Nick plans on being a screenwriter for comics, films, or shows. His favorite films include "Star Wars," "Dawn Of The Dead," "Christmas Story," "The Apartment," "Free Enterprise," etc.
Ranielle Gray
Ranielle Gray began expanding her lifelong love of film into a career while earning her BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis at the University of Washington. Integrating Cinema Studies with her English curriculum, she participated in various film-related internships, including positions as a film reviewer for the now-defunct American Dreamer Independent Filmworks and an art exhibit coordinator for the 25th Seattle International Film Festival. But it was her three year stint as Secretary of State for Seattle film lover's group TheWarrenReport (founded by Seattle film guru Warren Etheredge) and Coordinator of the 1 Reel Film Festival at Bumbershoot (curated by Etheredge) that cemented Ranielle's place in the film community of Seattle and beyond. Ranielle went on to two years in film publicity at the Seattle branch of Terry Hines & Associates, working with Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Focus Features, Rogue Pictures, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Paramount Classics, Sony Pictures Classics, DreamWorks Pictures, Lionsgate, New Line Cinema, and Warner Bros. Pictures.
A graduate of the 3-week intensive course at Seattle's TheFilmSchool, her storytelling instructors have included the aforementioned Etheredge, writer/director John Jacobsen, writer/director Rick Stevenson, writer Stewart Stern, and actor Tom Skerritt. She is an aspiring screenwriter and currently works as a personal assistant for Portland, OR based casting director Lana Veenker .
Her favorite films include SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, and THE BOONDOCK SAINTS, along with just about anything Jane Austen-related. Guilty pleasures include DROP DEAD FRED, OSCAR, and THE SLIPPER AND THE ROSE.
Bob Ham
Bob Ham is a freelance writer from Portland, OR. He writes for a variety of online and print publications including The Oregonian, Relevant Magazine, Dagger Magazine, Performer Magazine, LivePDX.com, Junkmedia.org, and, of course, DVD Corner.
Andrea
Andrea lives in the Portland area with her husband, their spoiled cat, Evey (named after the V for Vendetta character), and their pet money tree, Harold. She is currently enrolled at PSU, majoring in biology, with the hope of working at an animal sanctuary.
She enjoys turning bizarre dreams into disturbing short stories, photographing architecture, attending midnight movie openings, and making her cat imitate Yoda and dance . She likes psychological thrillers and bad horror films, but her favorite films include V for Vendetta, The Fountain, Requiem for a Dream, The Matrix Trilogy (yes, ALL of them), Edward Scissorhands, and American History X. She really wishes Jim Henson had made more movies and seasons of Fraggle Rock. She thinks the Lost island should be real, though she wouldn't mind living in Carnivale either. Andrea is a self-proclaimed dork who reads incessantly, and she will forever praise Clive Barker's literary greatness.
Andrea is also very short.
Paul Salo
I have been writing and making home movies with my brother since our family first got a video camera in the ‘80’s. I’ve lived in West Linn practically my whole life graduating from West Linn High School in 2003. I currently work at an electronics store and go to Portland State University studying English.
Chris Tucker
Chris Tucker works at the Broadway location of the best little video chain in Portland, Videorama. He enjoys pressuring customers to rent movies that he likes and then ridiculing them if they don't like his picks. He does other things too.
Lulu
Lulu began as a pre-med at the University of Chicago, a school she chose because Indiana Jones went there. She ended up with a film degree from Michigan. Go figure. Learned the art of the snarky review from Terry Lawson of the Detroit Free Press, who seemed to think she was good at this whole critic thing. Aw, he's sweet. She's trying not to go to grad school for journalism or worse yet, law school. Oh, and yes, she's got a screenplay.
Lulu also writes reviews for any website that's kind enough to publish them. She lives in Portland, with her boyfriend, and her cats, Hot Texas-style Chilly and Kubrick, the remainder of three brothers that Lulu raised and named after John Huston, Orson Welles, and well, Stanley Kubrick. She also has a turtle named Turtle. She didn't name Turtle. He probably would have been Hitchcock if she did. They look alike.
Mary (Lauren German, HOSTEL: PART II) is a young woman whose life seems to be going reasonably well. She owns her own business and is engaged to be married to a schoolteacher. But everything isn’t quite as candy-coated as it seems.
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