About Force Five:
Force Five is about one thing: helping you find movies worth watching.
I'm Jason Kleeberg, a lifelong movie fan and former video store clerk from the San Francisco Bay Area. Before streaming algorithms tried to figure out what everyone wanted to watch, part of my job was standing behind a counter, talking to people about what they liked and sending them home with something I thought they'd enjoy.
Force Five is my digital version of that experience.
Each recommendation gives you five reasons you might like a movie. Sometimes it's a brand-new theatrical release. Sometimes it's a forgotten action movie, an obscure horror film, a martial-arts oddity, a cult favorite or something buried on a Blu-ray that deserves another look.
The goal isn't to grade movies or tell you what you're supposed to like.
It's to help you discover something.
About Jason:
I'm the writer, host, producer and editor of Force Five. I'm also a screenwriter, filmmaker, Telly Award winner and physical-media collector.
My movie tastes range from major theatrical releases to horror, action, martial arts, exploitation films, forgotten direct-to-video movies and just about anything else that sounds interesting enough to put into a player.
Force Five recommendations are researched, written and performed by me. All of my videos are 100% AI-free.
The original Force Five Podcast
Force Five began as a guest-driven podcast built around movie-themed Top 5 lists. Over the years I talked movies with filmmakers, writers, podcasters, musicians, professional wrestlers, friends and other movie fans.
In 2026, Force Five evolved.
I went back to my video-store roots and rebuilt the show around movie discovery: five reasons you might want to watch one movie.
The original podcast isn't gone. You can still explore it in the Force Five Podcast archive.
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