Stolen Jason: I want to point out right off the bat that, unlike Shawn, I am not a Nicolas Cage hater. I've liked his work in The Rock, Con Air, Gone in 60 Seconds, Bringing Out the Dead and a number of mid-to-late 90s films. But the man's star has fallen hard. Stolen is proof of that. Maybe it's because he's flat broke and has to take every film that comes his way, but Cage phones it in here. He can be a fun and quirky actor, but he's just going through the motions in Stolen. He's boring, just like the movie. There's technically nothing wrong with Stolen. It's well made and, essentially well written. But the action is nothing better than a TV movie, save for one great car-jump trick inside a parking garage. Otherwise it's boring foot and car chases, plus a lame fistfight or two. Yawn. Been there, done that. It didn't take long for Cage to fall from award winner to Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Stolen is just the latest entr...

From unwatched action star to unwatched action movie, tonight's foray into Basement Cinema is an entire exercise in films no way gave a shit about. Please listen, though. First up it's a Nicolas Cage movie called Stolen. Does anyone give a shit about Cage anymore? He's been an Oscar winner and starred in a string of awesome action movies including The Rock and . . .  The Rock. But he was in hits like Con Air and Gone in 60 Seconds too. Now he's broke and signing on to projects just for the paycheck. Is that all Stolen really means to him and Jason and Shawn? Stick with us! Then we segue into the Judge Dredd reboot Dredd, which no one bothered to watch this past summer despite it getting great reviews and word of mouth from those who saw it. Sure, the plot sounds like The Raid: Redemption and Karl Urban isn't a draw, but there's no Rob Schneider in sight. That counts for something . . . right? Plus the Basement Boys -- those lovers of the female form --...