New Release Thursday, April 16, 2026

89 titles dropped on Relay this week. Here are five worth starting with.

Balance: A Perimenopause Journey

One of the monks who made this was an Army Combat Medic in Iraq before she took her vows. The other left a corporate sales career. Neither has a medical background. That's the point. They went and found the answers the healthcare system stopped asking for. Four episodes covering hormone therapy, the misinformation problem, and what it's like when doctors tell you your symptoms aren't real. 9.5 on IMDB.

Documentary

Oxygen

1. Adrien Brody, four years before The Pianist, plays a kidnapper who buries a woman alive and then engineers his own arrest. He wants to be caught. He wants to get to the detective. Maura Tierney plays her as an alcoholic cop who secretly pays a sadist to burn her with cigarettes. This is a much stranger film than the premise suggests. Went straight to video. Richard Shepard later made The Matador.

Thriller

Ex-Wives of Rock

Sharise Neil (Vince Neil's ex-wife). Athena Lee (Tommy Lee's sister). Bobbi Brown (Jani Lane's ex-wife). They had the name, the story, the connection. What they didn't have was a stage. This show is them getting one. Fuse, 2012. The music is real and that matters. Two seasons. Better than the premise has any right to be.

Reality Show

Politics Is a Mother: Raising Hell Is Part of the Job

Loretta Weinberg was 79 when she blew open Bridgegate as New Jersey Senate Majority Leader. Powerful enough to be a target, old enough that nobody saw her coming. Her daughter directed this film. Won Best Documentary at the Teaneck International Film Festival. Official selection at Montclair.

Documentary

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Two Mexican-American teenagers in El Paso, 1987. Aitch Alberto's debut. 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. Premiered at TIFF. Variety called it "one of the most well-rounded teen movies around." Ran in limited release in 2023. Should have been everywhere.

Drama

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