Triple Threat is a great action picture . Probably one of the best of the year. It's an old-school kick 'em up featuring a lot of talented mofos. If you haven't seen it, get on it! Now director Jesse V. Johnson is at it again, and he's wrangled Triple Threat co-star Dominiquie Vandenberg to help him. The flick is called The Mercenary, and a lot of people get punched in the face... and a lot of stuff blows up. Suffice to say, Shawn is happy. Here's the trailer: Yes, this doesn't look like anything we haven't seen before. But it's a tried and true story, and Johnson knows how to handle action. We're on board here in The Basement, and you should be too! The Mercenary also stars Louis Mandylor and Carmen Argenziano. It hits DVD and Digital Jan. 7. Source: Uncork'd Entertainment

It's no deep, dark secret that Shawn and I have a lot of man love for director William Kaufman and actor Johnny Strong's love letter to 80s action cinema, Sinners and Saints. So when we found out Kaufman and Strong have another bad-to-the-ass movie headed our way, we put down or beers and took notice. A post-apocalyptic zombie thriller, Daylight's End sees Strong joined by Sinners and Saints co-stars Louis Mandylor and Mark Hanson, as well as UFC champ Anderson Silva and the great Lance Henriksen. Impressed? We are. Chad Law wrote the film. But what's it about? Check it: years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need. Sounds like a Basement movie if ever there was one. And, given the un...