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Batman has been broken | Batman: Knightfall Part 1:...

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2026/09/28

Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall has an awkward title but it’s one of the most faithful DC animated adaptations in years. In this Force Five video, I give you five reasons you might want to watch Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall Buy Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall to support me: https://amzn.to/3UXBqoN Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/forcefive Other helpful links: Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/forcefive/ Website: www.forcefivepodcast.com Instagram:

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The 90s serial killer thriller is back | The Whisper...

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2026/09/25

The Whisper Man feels like Netflix pulled a mid-budget serial-killer thriller straight out of the ’90s (and I mean that as a compliment). Based on Alex North’s bestselling novel, The Whisper Man stars Adam Scott as Tom Kennedy, a widowed crime writer who moves back to the town where he grew up with his eight-year-old son Jake. Unfortunately, the town has a horrifying history involving a child murderer known as the Whisper Man, but he's behind bars...so why are children disappearing again? In this

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Catholic school has never been this awkward |...

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2026/09/21

Lemonade Blessing is Chris Merola’s feature directorial debut, a painfully funny coming-of-age comedy about Catholic guilt, teenage romance, divorced parents, religious expectations and the horrifying experience of being fifteen years old. John is a teenager sent to a private Catholic high school by his extremely devout mother. Then he meets Lilith, an atheist classmate who begins testing exactly how far he’s willing to push his faith, morals and comfort zone in the name of their relationship. In

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Some of the wildest kills in horror this year | Ghost...

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2026/09/21

Ghost in the Cell is Joko Anwar’s 2026 Indonesian horror film about corruption, prison violence, supernatural terror, elaborate gore and what happens when a group of hardened criminals discovers that staying positive might literally save their lives. Investigative journalist Dimas is sent to a brutal Indonesian prison after being accused of a grotesque murder. Inside, he falls in with a group of inmates trying to survive violent gangs and corrupt guards, until prisoners begin turning up dead in

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Michael Myers, but with military training | Onslaught...

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2026/09/17

Onslaught is Adam Wingard’s 2026 A24 action-horror movie starring Adria Arjona as a former Army sniper forced to protect her daughter when three genetically engineered super-soldiers escape from a secret military facility. Basically, what if Michael Myers and Jason Vorhees had military training? In this episode, I give you five reasons you might want to watch Onslaught. Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/forcefive Other helpful links: Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/forcefive/ Website:

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An insane Korean creature feature | Hope (2026)

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2026/09/14

Hope is Na Hong-jin’s massive 2026 Korean creature feature starring Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung and Squid Game’s Hoyeon, with Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Taylor Russell and Cameron Britton also joining the cast. The movie begins in the remote coastal village of Hope Harbor, where police chief Bum-seok investigates a brutally killed animal and quickly discovers that whatever did it has already made its way into town...and then things get completely insane. In this episode, I give you five

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If you liked The Wire, check this movie out |...

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2026/09/08

Brooklyn’s Finest is Antoine Fuqua’s gritty 2010 crime thriller starring Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke and Wesley Snipes as cops and criminals operating inside the same broken Brooklyn ecosystem. In this episode, I give you five reasons you might want to watch Brooklyn’s Finest. Order Brooklyn's Finest on Blu-ray: https://amzn.to/3T7VuEc Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/forcefive Other helpful links: Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/forcefive/ Website: www.forcefivepodcast.com

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The best dinosaur movie since Jurassic Park | The End...

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2026/09/04

The End of Oak Street is David Robert Mitchell’s 2026 dinosaur survival movie starring Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, and Christian Convery, and it may be one of my favorite dinosaur movies ever made. Set in 1982, the film follows the Platt family after a mysterious cosmic event transports their ordinary Michigan neighborhood roughly 200 million years into the past. Suddenly, suburbia is surrounded by prehistoric wilderness, and dinosaurs aren’t theme-park attractions - they’re wild

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The Raid at 30,000 Feet | Wings of Dread (2026)

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2026/09/02

Wings of Dread is a compact 2026 Chinese action thriller starring Ashton Chen and The Raid’s Iko Uwais, taking martial arts mayhem 30,000 feet into the air. Air police officer Gu Chaoyang finds himself aboard a flight carrying a dangerous prisoner when a group of hijackers led by Iko Uwais’ Paquet attempts to free him. What follows is an sub-90-minute barrage of close-quarters fights in aisles, cargo holds and even an airplane bathroom. In this episode, I give you five reasons you might want to

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If you like Se7en and The Usual Suspects, you need to...

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2026/08/27

SUZUKI=BAKUDAN is a 2025 Japanese crime thriller directed by Akira Nagai and based on Katsuhiro Go’s bestselling novel Bomb. After a seemingly ordinary drunk named Tagosaku Suzuki is arrested for a minor assault, he casually predicts an explosion in Tokyo. When it happens exactly when he said it would, Suzuki announces that more bombs are coming, and the police are forced into a race against time while trying to understand whether the strange man sitting in their interrogation room is psychic, lucky

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Channing Tatum, Zendaya and LeBron James in One...

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2026/08/24

Smallfoot is a 2018 animated musical comedy with a ridiculously stacked voice cast, beautiful animation, catchy songs, and some surprisingly ambitious ideas about truth, fear, social media and questioning what you’ve been taught. Channing Tatum voices Migo, a young Yeti whose entire worldview is shaken after he discovers something his community insists does not exist: a human. In this video, I give you five reasons you might want to watch Smallfoot. Check out Smallfoot on Blu-ray:

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Robin Hood like you’ve never seen him before | The...

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2026/08/21

The Death of Robin Hood is Michael Sarnoski’s dark, brutal reimagining of the legendary outlaw, starring Hugh Jackman as an aging Robin Hood forced to confront the violence behind the heroic stories that have grown around his name. This is not the merry, swashbuckling Robin Hood most audiences know. In this Force Five video, I give you five reasons you might want to watch The Death of Robin Hood. Watch The Death of Robin Hood: https://amzn.to/4fTKUtf Buy a shirt:

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The best dinosaur movie since the original Jurassic...

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2026/08/20

The End of Oak Street is David Robert Mitchell’s 2026 dinosaur survival movie starring Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, and Christian Convery, and it may be one of my favorite dinosaur movies ever made. Set in 1982, the film follows the Platt family after a mysterious cosmic event transports their ordinary Michigan neighborhood roughly 200 million years into the past. Suddenly, suburbia is surrounded by prehistoric wilderness, and dinosaurs aren’t theme-park attractions - they’re wild

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5 reasons you might like Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)

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2026/08/06

Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) is an overlooked Robert De Niro baseball movie about friendship, terminal illness and the daily life of a professional ballclub. Michael Moriarty stars as Henry Wiggen, the New York Mammoths’ successful pitcher, while De Niro plays Bruce Pearson, his struggling catcher and closest friend. When Henry learns that Bruce is terminally ill, he quietly works to protect his dignity and make sure he remains with the team for one final season. Here are five reasons you might want

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5 reasons you might like Eden Lake (2008)

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2026/08/03

Eden Lake is a brutal 2008 British survival-horror film written and directed by James Watkins and starring Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender and Jack O’Connell. Steve and Jenny travel to a secluded lake for a romantic weekend, only to clash with a group of teenagers whose intimidation and cruelty quickly escalate into something much more dangerous. Here are five reasons you might want to watch Eden Lake. Just be warned: this is not a comforting survival-horror movie and it is very unlikely to leave

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5 reasons you might like Motor City (2026)

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2026/07/27

Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/forcefive Motor City is a nearly dialogue-free revenge thriller directed by Potsy Ponciroli and starring Alan Ritchson as John Miller, a man who emerges from prison determined to destroy the gangster who framed him and stole the woman he loved. In this video, I give you five reasons you might want to watch Motor City. The film also stars Shailene Woodley, Ben Foster, Pablo Schreiber, Lionel Boyce, Amar Chadha-Patel, and Ben McKenzie, with a score by Steve

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5 reasons you might like Vice Academy (1989)

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2026/07/23

Vice Academy is a 1989 low-budget cult comedy written and directed by Rick Sloane and starring Linnea Quigley and Ginger Lynn as two police-academy recruits trying to earn enough arrests to graduate.In this Force Five, I accept a viewer challenge and give you five reasons someone might enjoy Vice Academy. If you enjoy Linnea Quigley, Ginger Lynn, Rick Sloane movies, USA Up All Night, low-budget sex comedies, video-store nostalgia, or movies that are best experienced with a loud group of friends,

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5 reasons you might like Rambo: First Blood Part II...

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2026/07/20

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5 reasons you might like Anniversary (2026).

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2026/07/14

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5 reasons you might like Blades of the Guardians (2026).

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2026/07/11

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