There's been a lot of great fakes in the history of entertainment. Orsen Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast being one, The Curse of the Blair Witch -- a clever marketing tool for The Blair Witch Project -- another. Chalk up the Discovery Channel's Megalodon: The Monster Shark Lives as the latest entry in the "genre." To the flick's credits, it's one of the better mockumentaries. In fact, 99.9 per cent of it is pretty damn believable. It looks, feels and plays out like a regular Discovery Channel documentary, which is probably why so many people were pissed right off when they found out they'd watched 90 minutes of bullshit. And that disclaimer at the end flashes by so fast it might as well have been a spoof on The Simpsons. But the makers use some good, solid science and documented fact -- not the U-Boat photo by the way -- to back up their fishing story. And the actors portraying the "cast of characters" do a bang-up job. In fact, thi...

Allow me to quickly introduce myself: My name is Kara, and I live over at www.karaschatter.com . I have no experience in the movie industry, other than watching and appreciating them. I thought I would offer up my movie reviewing skills, or lack thereof, to The Basement to give readers a female perspective on movies, new, old, good, and bad.  The Discovery Channel’s famous “Shark Week” had decided to wrap things up Saturday night with a double-header showing of Jaws (of course) and … wait, what? Sharknado! This film has swept the social media scene in a frenzy (pun regrettably intended) and so I couldn’t help but hit “Record” on the ol’ PVR to see what the fuss is all about. Right off the bat, it’s simply ridiculous. A rich, Asian tycoon is aboard a lonely shark-fishing boat, wheelin’ and dealin’ while eating delicious shark fin soup. Then, a storm hits, as does the irony. Asian guy gets devoured by a shark. And so it begins. The storm makes its way to the California ...