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All-star documentary #NoJoke tackles bullying

Bullying is something we've all faced at one time or another. Or we ourselves have been bullies. I know I've been on both sides of this issue, which is something I'm not always happy about, or proud of. With an almost eight year old, my wife and I can see the cycle repeating, as it does with each generation. Which is why I want to highlight the new documentary #NoJoke, which features musician Andrew Cole and his quest to create an anti-bullying song featuring some of his musical idols. Along the way he recruits the likes of Jeff Goldblum, Ozzie Osbourne, Lemmy, Slash, Steve Vai, Julian Lennon, Patrick Stewart and more, and records very personal interviews with them about the subject. It's powerful and inspiring stuff. Check out the trailer: This is definitely a documentary people need to see and talk about. I hope families watch it together, and get the conversation going about bullying and how wrong it is. #NoJoke hits On Demand today. Source: #NoJ...

Review: The Flatwoods Monster (A Small Town Monsters documentary)

Just yesterday I posted a review of Project Blue Book's second episode, which chronicled the case of The Flatwoods Monster. I enjoyed the episode so much, I decided to research the story behind the episode, and came across this documentary on the subject. As an amateur paranormal investigator, I've heard of Small Town Monsters, a documentary crew who make films about, well, monsters. I'd seen a previous flick they did on The Mothman of Point Pleasant, which itself became a popular book and feature film, The Mothman Prophecies.

Review: Millennium After the Millennium

If listeners recall, during each of our sit downs with the fine folks behind the Back to Frank Blank campaign I have preached my love for the TV series Millennium. It is, in my biased opinion, the best TV show that ever was. Cancelled in its prime, the Lance Henriksen vehicle was never given a proper conclusion, which is where Back to Frank Black came into play. Troy Foreman, James McLean and company pushed for a grand finale that would give closure to the series, and lead character Frank Black's plight.

Help support Boris Karloff: The Early Years in Canada

Folks, there is a cool little project that needs your help. One that highlights the early years of, arguably, horror's greatest icon. He is Boris Karloff, and before he became a household name, he spent many years here in the Great White North, including a stint in Shawn and I's home town of Kamloops, British Columbia.

Millennium After the Millennium

We Came from the Basement is scheduled to return to the Radio NL 610 AM Morning Show this upcoming Friday, and we're bringing our first interview in quite a while with us. Joining Jason and Shane Woodford at about 8:40 a.m. (Shawn is on vacation) are filmmakers Troy Foreman and Jason Morris, the driving forces behind the upcoming documentary Millennium After the Millennium .

Jason versus Beware the Slenderman

Beware the Slenderman is a doc I've wanted to watch since it was first announced a year and a half ago. I'd become fascinated with this bit of Internet-created folklore, partly because of how pervasive Slenderman has become in our culture, and partly because my then four-year-old son and his friends talked abut him like I'd talked about the Boogeyman.

Canadian horror doc to hit Sitges Film Festival

Believe it or not, Basementites, us igloo-dwelling, syrup-sucking iceholes have a long and proud history of making horror films. Really good horror films. Horror films like Black Christmas, Scanners, My Bloody Valentine and The Changeling. My buddy and Billy Trigger co-star Deke Richards co-directed a nifty sounding documentary called Tax Shelter Terrors, which explores how Canada's tax-shelter system gave birth to a whole genre-film industry here in the True North Strong and Free between 1974 and 1982.

Beware the Slenderman heads to HBO

We live in interesting times when an Internet creation can compel someone to commit a crime and become the focus of a documentary. But, the same can be said -- I'd assume anyway -- of any popular medium. Comics were blamed for corrupting the morals of children, music has caused listeners to worship the devil, and now an online phenomenon known as Slenderman is the focus of a new documentary film.

Sunday Night at the Movies: Lake Mungo

Lake Mungo is one of those horror movies I'd heard a lot of buzz about but had a hard time getting my mitts on. Of all the diamonds in the rough Shawn and I have sought out during our six seasons, this was one of the hardest diamonds to find. Yet I was determined. So I spent a considerable amount of coin purchasing this flick for the simple pleasure of seeing what all the fuss is about. Can a pseudo documentary about the ghost of a dead girl live up to the hype? Stick with me!

Suzanne Cappelletti versus The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

I have been a fan of this movie for a long time. I watched this with my Mom when I was a kid and its always struck a chord. It is based the true story of a series of murders dubbed the “Texarkana Moonlight Murders” in 1946. The movie is a documentary style telling of this series of murders, still unsolved to this day. What I like is that you see the POV of the killer and of the police trying to catch him. It seems like a slice of life after the war, men starting their lives after serving. A general sense of peace surrounding the community and a killer moves in and turns that peace into fear. His main targets were young couples parked out in the local lovers lane.

Cannon Films doc Electric Boogaloo gets a trailer

Ah yes, Cannon Films. Hands down my favourite movie studio growing up. Why? Missing In Action, Delta Force, Enter the Ninja, Ninja III: The Domination, Death Wish 3, American Ninja, Masters of the Universe. Need I go on? By most people's standards, all of the above are crap films. But they were the crap films I loved as a child, and they're the crap films I still love today. And they were made by The Cannon Group.

Jason versus The Summit

Actually, I wish I had stones enough to tackle the summit of K2 , the most dangerous peak in the world. Instead, I will satisfy myself watching documentaries about mountain climbing and tragedy like Nick Ryan 's 2012 film The Summit . This is the story of the deadliest day on the world's most dangerous mountain, when 11 climbers mysteriously perished on K2.

The Collection, The Frankenstein Theory and an interview with Andrew Weiner

Never underestimate the power of social media. Doesn't mean you have to like it, let alone understand it, but don't underestimate it. A chance encounter on Twitter led to tonight's feature interview with Andrew Weiner, director of The Frankenstein Theory , which also happens to be one of two movies on the chopping block tonight. Shawn sat down with Andrew for about 45 minutes, and it's a conversation for the ages, according to the Bad Man himself. However, being a 60-minute radio show/podcast, you only get to hear about 18 minutes of the interview. The Basement Boys will post the talk in its entirety at a later date. Stick with us! As for the movies, first up is the horror sequel The Collection. A man who escaped from the vicious grips of the serial killer known as The Collector is blackmailed into rescuing an innocent girl from the killer's booby-trapped warehouse. The first film, The Collector, was so so. Only time, and Jason and Shawn, will tell if this...