Force Five

Netflix is releasing AI slop | Animals (2026)

This episode of Force Five is a little different. Normally, Jason gives you five reasons you might like a movie. But after watching Ben Affleck's Animals (2026) on Netfl

Witchcraft, romance and total insanity | Practical Magic (1998)

Practical Magic (1998) stars Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as Sally and Gillian Owens, two sisters descended from a long line of witches who have inherited an unfortun

The other 1996 horror classic | The Craft (1996)

Before Neve Campbell and Skeet Ulrich appeared together in Scream, they were already sharing the screen in The Craft, Andrew Fleming's 1996 supernatural horror movie abou

Killer puppets, RZA, and so much gore | V/H/S/Mixtape (2026)

The V/H/S franchise is back with its ninth installment, and this time music and sound are doing most of the damage. V/H/S/Mixtape features four main horror segments dire

Robert De Niro’s other Vietnam movie | Jacknife (1989)

Robert De Niro, Ed Harris and Kathy Baker star in Jacknife, a 1989 drama that deserves another look. This week on Force Five, I'm giving you five reasons you might want

Big, dumb, action packed fun | Matchbox: The Movie (2026)

Matchbox: The Movie takes a toy line with virtually no characters or mythology and turns it into a full-blown action adventure starring John Cena, Jessica Biel, Sam Richa

A nasty little Ozploitation flick | Penny Lane is Dead (2025)

Kat brought cupcakes. This week on Force Five, Jason gives five reasons you might want to watch Penny Lane Is Dead, Mia’Kate Russell’s vicious Australian horror film abo

A rap, kung-fu melodramatic fever dream | City Dragon (1995)

MC Kung Fu has entered the building. This week on Force Five, Jason gives five reasons you might want to experience City Dragon, the wonderfully strange 1995 combination

Robert Pattinson became Chris Hansen | Primetime (2026)

Primetime turns To Catch a Predator into something much stranger than a straightforward true-crime dramatization. Robert Pattinson stars as Chris Hansen in Lance Oppenh

Batman has been broken | Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall (2026)

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

The 90s serial killer thriller is back | The Whisper Man (2026)

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 bestsellin

Catholic school has never been this awkward | Lemonade Blessing (2026)

Lemonade Blessing is Chris Merola’s feature directorial debut, a painfully funny coming-of-age comedy about Catholic guilt, teenage romance, divorced parents, religious e

Some of the wildest kills in horror this year | Ghost in the Cell (2026)

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 hard

Michael Myers, but with military training | Onslaught (2026)

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 su

An insane Korean creature feature | Hope (2026)

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 R

The best dinosaur movie since Jurassic Park | The End of Oak Street (2026)

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 on

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

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 of

If you like Se7en and The Usual Suspects, you need to see this | SUZUKI=BAKUDAN (2025)

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 Tagosa

Channing Tatum, Zendaya and LeBron James in One Movie?! | Smallfoot (2018)

Smallfoot is a 2018 animated musical comedy with a ridiculously stacked voice cast, beautiful animation, catchy songs, and some surprisingly ambitious ideas about truth,

Robin Hood like you’ve never seen him before | The Death of Robin Hood (2026)

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 violen