Outland is a movie I vaguely remember watching on TV with my dad. He was a huge fan of westerns and Sean Connery , so this sci-fi flick was right within the old man's wheelhouse. I remembered it being good, so when Basementites voted it as this week's retro review, I was pretty pumped. Was my enthusiasm justified? Stick with me! In the distant future, a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy, and gets no help from the populace when he later finds himself marked for murder.

Curse of Chucky Jason: This is to the Child's Play franchise what H20 was to the Halloween franchise ; a return to form for a series that lost its roots with too many sequels. I like that this flick went dark. Gone is most of the satirical and campy humour, although all the previous films are nicely acknowledged at one point or another. When you go back and watch the original Child's Play, it was a serious horror movie . It took a silly idea about a killer doll and made it work. This flick, which is written and directed by Child's Play creator Don Mancini , goes the same route. I thank him for that. There's some good kills -- including a brilliant decapitation and beautiful axe to the face -- and even a jump scare or three. Child's Play isn't my favourite horror franchise, but I respect that the filmmakers took this flick where it needed to go. That said, I'm not fan enough of the series to watch it more than once, so it rates a Bad Shawn: Oh man,...

It almost became the season that never was, but Season Five of Film Reviews from the Basement -- the official radio show/ podcast of We Came from the Basement -- begins in the morning. Podcast focused, the show still has a home on 92.5FM CFBX Kamloops ' late-night schedule. A shorter season with an episode every two weeks, Jason and Shawn still bring you the best that Basement cinema has to offer. And what better way to start than with Curse of Chucky , a 2013 direct-to-home sixth sequel to 80s classic Child's Play . Chucky the doll is back to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting family, with expected results. Does this dark tale of a killer doll still have bite? Stick with us! Then it's off to outer space with the found (spits) footage flick Europa Report starring District 9 's Shartlo Copley. The story? An international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter's fourth largest moon. What do they find? Tune in wh...