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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: www.forcefivepodcast.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/forcefivepodcast Email: forcefivepodcast@gmail.com

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 reasons you might want to watch Hope. Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/forcefive Other helpful links: Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/forcefive/ Website: www.forcefivepodcast.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/forcefivepodcast Email: forcefivepodcast@gmail.com

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 Instagram: www.instagram.com/forcefivepodcast Email: forcefivepodcast@gmail.com

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 animals that can tear the neighborhood apart. In this episode, I give you five reasons you might want to watch The End of Oak Street. Order The End of Oak Street on 4K: https://amzn.to/4wG1X7d Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/forcefive Other helpful links: YouTube: https://youtu.be/LNWRY_X12Us Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/forcefive/ Website: www.forcefivepodcast.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/forcefivepodcast Email: forcefivepodcast@gmail.com

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 watch Wings of Dread. Right now there is no physical release for Wings of Dread :( Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/forcefive Other helpful links: Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/forcefive/ Website: www.forcefivepodcast.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/forcefivepodcast Email: forcefivepodcast@gmail.com

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 or something much more dangerous. In this Force Five video, I give you five reasons you might want to watch SUZUKI=BAKUDAN. Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/forcefive Other helpful links: YouTube: https://youtu.be/sG7OxFAYb64 Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/forcefive/ Website: www.forcefivepodcast.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/forcefivepodcast Email: forcefivepodcast@gmail.com

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: https://amzn.to/4fTKUtf Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/forcefive Other helpful links: YouTube: https://youtu.be/hobPFuQrJG8 Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/forcefive/ Website: www.forcefivepodcast.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/forcefivepodcast Email: forcefivepodcast@gmail.com

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: https://www.teepublic.com/user/forcefive Other helpful links: Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/forcefive/ Website: www.forcefivepodcast.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/forcefivepodcast Email: forcefivepodcast@gmail.com

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 animals that can tear the neighborhood apart. In this Force Five video, I give you five reasons you might want to watch The End of Oak Street. Order The End of Oak Street on 4K: https://amzn.to/4wG1X7d Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/forcefive Other helpful links: YouTube: https://youtu.be/LNWRY_X12Us Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/forcefive/ Website: www.forcefivepodcast.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/forcefivepodcast Email: forcefivepodcast@gmail.com

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 to watch Bang the Drum Slowly. Other helpful links: Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/forcefive Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/forcefive/ Website: www.forcefivepodcast.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/forcefivepodcast Email: forcefivepodcast@gmail.com

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 you smiling. Other helpful links: Buy a shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/user/forcefive Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/forcefive/ Website: www.forcefivepodcast.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/forcefivepodcast Email: forcefivepodcast@gmail.com

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 Jablonsky and a soundtrack filled with classic needle drops. If you enjoy revenge movies, 1970s crime films, Alan Ritchson, Reacher, visually driven storytelling, great movie soundtracks, or action movies that save their wildest material for the finale, Motor City might be worth checking out. Other helpful links: YouTube: https://youtu.be/UsBfY3JmFDg Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/forcefive/ Website: www.forcefivepodcast.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/forcefivepodcast Email: forcefivepodcast@gmail.com

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, Vice Academy might be worth investigating. Other helpful links: YouTube: www.youtube.com/@forcefivepodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/forcefive/ Website: www.forcefivepodcast.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/forcefivepodcast Email: forcefivepodcast@gmail.com