New Release Thursday, June 4, 2026

Over 133 new titles landed on Relay this week. Here are 8 worth clearing your Thursday night for.

Other Music

For 21 years, a record store on East 4th Street in Manhattan quietly shaped the sound of a generation. Other Music closed in 2016. This documentary, which premiered at Tribeca and holds a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, is its elegy. Matt Berninger, Tunde Adebimpe, Martin Gore, Vampire Weekend, Interpol — they all show up to explain what the place meant. The interviews are honest in a way that streaming algorithms aren’t built to replicate. If you’ve ever felt like the best music was always found somewhere inconvenient, this one’s yours.

Documentary

Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows

Director Paul Jay spent a year following Bret Hart with a documentary crew. He had no idea what was coming. Then, at the 1997 Survivor Series in Montreal, Vince McMahon double-crossed Hart live on pay-per-view — the infamous Screwjob — and Jay’s cameras were rolling for all of it. The result is one of the rare sports documentaries where the climactic betrayal wasn’t reconstructed or sourced from archival footage. It just happened in front of the lens. Won Best of Festival and Best Feature at Hot Docs 1999. 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. Vinegar Syndrome put out a physical restoration in 2023. Even if you don’t follow wrestling, this is a film about trust being destroyed in real time.

Documentary

Scarface (1932)

Not the one you think. Howard Hawks directed this in 1932, with Paul Muni as Tony Camonte and a script by Ben Hecht. Nine American cities banned it. Censors in New York, Ohio, Virginia, Kansas, and Chicago all blocked release. Howard Hughes fought them publicly and the film hit theaters anyway — then became part of the pressure that created the Hays Code two years later. It holds a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 90 on Metacritic. Al Pacino has cited Muni’s performance as the direct model for his own. George Raft’s iconic coin-flip was his own improvisation on set; he did it every take until it stuck. See the original before revisiting the remake.

Crime

Saint Judy

Immigration attorney Judy Wood walked into a courtroom in the late 1990s and argued that Afghan women fleeing the Taliban qualified for asylum under “particular social group” — a legal category no one had successfully applied to gender persecution before. She won. Immigration advocates say that precedent has since protected the lives of tens of thousands of women globally. Michelle Monaghan plays Wood alongside Common and Alfred Molina. The film premiered at LA Film Festival 2018. With Afghan women still living under Taliban rule in 2026, the courtroom scenes don’t feel like history.

Drama

The Limb Salesman

A doctor gets summoned to a remote outpost in a near-future world where environmental collapse has made bodies precious commodities. The illegal procedure he’s pulled into involves regenerative medicine, a dangerous community, and choices that don’t survive the light. Director Anais Granofsky — better known as Lucy from Degrassi: The Next Generation — co-wrote the script with lead actress Ingrid Veninger. Clark Johnson, who directed the pilot of The Wire and played Meldrick Lewis on Homicide, plays the patriarch. World premiered at TIFF 2004. Variety called it “a sci-fi drama anachronistically dressed in beaux arts style.” Strange, specific, and worth the trip.

Drama

Publish or Perish

Jim Bowden causes an accident, hides the body, and then watches his life become a darkly comic hostage situation as the cover-up spirals into blackmail, false accusations, and worse. The hook is the setting: academia, where the pressure to publish-or-perish creates a very specific kind of desperation. Won Best Feature at Crystal Palace International Film Festival, Best Feature and Best Director at Beaufort International Film Festival. Film Threat called it “fiendishly clever and wickedly amusing.” Acquired for US distribution by Buffalo 8 in 2023. Good one to put on without explaining too much first.

Comedy

Louder Than You Think

Gary Young was Pavement’s first drummer. He recorded their early demos on a cheap 4-track in ways that weren’t quite intentional, producing a sound that became the template for an entire aesthetic. Then he got fired. This documentary, which premiered at SXSW 2023, follows Young in the years after, using Thunderbirds-style marionettes to recreate the parts of his life too strange for talking heads alone. Pavement’s 2022-23 reunion tour was their biggest run, and their soundtrack LP dropped in February 2026 — the timing makes this feel less like archival and more like current. For fans of the band or anyone who ever made something by accident and couldn’t explain it.

Documentary

1974: The Possession of Altair

Most found-footage horror fakes the degraded look in post. 1974: The Possession of Altair was actually shot on 8mm film — the scratches, the flicker, the wrong colors are all real. Mexican director Victor Dryere set the film in Monterrey, following a newlywed named Altair who builds a black brick door in her bedroom and starts talking to something on the other side. Bleeding Skull singled out the practical film stock as the element that separates it from the genre’s digital imitators. Screened at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Put it on after dark.

Horror

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