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Dennis Hopper’s ‘Tracks’ Gets 4K Restoration, Screens November 11 in New York

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A Vietnam vet escorts a fellow soldier’s body home by train, and the war won’t let him go.

Henry Jaglom’s 1976 film Tracks, starring Dennis Hopper, is getting a new 4K restoration. Hope Runs High is bringing the film back to theaters with a screening at Roxy Cinema in New York on November 11, 2026.

The film follows a sergeant, played by Hopper, who is traveling across the country by train with the remains of a fellow soldier. Haunted by what he saw in Vietnam, he encounters passengers both real and imagined. Dean Stockwell and Taryn Power, daughter of Tyrone Power, co-star.

Tracks was selected for Semaine de la Critique at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. Critics at the time called it visceral and discomforting. J. Hoberman described it as “both a terminal road film and the first post-Vietnam movie.” Variety called it “an incisive, revelatory film.”

Jaglom wrote and directed the film. Paul Glickman shot it, and Zack Norman produced. Jaglom started his career editing Easy Rider alongside Jack Nicholson, then went on to direct more than twenty films of his own.

The Roxy Cinema screening includes a post-screening Q&A with Sabrina Jaglom and Justin LaLiberty. The theater is located at 2 Avenue of the Americas in New York.

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Documentary About Musician Alex Sparrow’s Recovery From Stroke Screens at DOC NYC

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will-powerA musician on the verge of stardom has a head-on car crash that leaves him paralyzed and unable to sing. Then he fights his way back.

WILL POWER, a new documentary from director Lauro Rocha, follows the true story of Alex Sparrow (Aleksey Vorobyov), an actor and musician who suffered a traumatic brain injury and stroke after a 2013 car accident in Los Angeles. The film screens at DOC NYC on November 15 at Village East by Angelika.

Sparrow was 17 when he broke out on the Russian version of The X Factor. He signed with Universal Music Russia in 2006 and represented Russia at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. By 2013, he’d moved to the U.S. and was working with Grammy-winning producer RedOne, known for Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance.

Then came the crash. Doctors said he might never sing, act, or dance again. Filmed over several years, WILL POWER documents Sparrow’s recovery as he relearns basic skills and eventually returns to performing.

“My progress wasn’t linear, and reclaiming my life meant discovering a new version of myself,” Sparrow says.

The documentary has won awards at the Overcome Film Festival and Eurasia Film Festival. Rocha, a graduate of the AFI Conservatory and founder of Small World Films, says the film challenges assumptions about resilience and human limits.

Tickets are $20 to $22.

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Japanese Horror Film “New Group” Hits Shudder with Body Horror and Social Commentary

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A high school student watches her world spiral into terror as those around her turn into mindless followers in “New Group,” a Japanese body horror film that lands on Shudder November 6.

Director Yûta Shimotsu transforms simple gymnastics routines into what critics call “a nightmarish dance of death.” The film stars Anna Yamada as Ai, who witnesses a cult-like mentality spread through her community.

Shimotsu, who studied mechanical engineering before moving into filmmaking, made his feature debut with “Best Wishes to All” in 2023. “New Group” screened at Fantasia International Film Festival and Sitges Film Festival before its streaming release.

Early reviews highlight the film’s blend of horror and social criticism. Rue Morgue calls it “a most entertaining slice of weirdness…braced by an underpinning of social commentary.” Bloody Disgusting labels it “an incredible, unpredictable body horror masterpiece that doubles as an indicting satire of Japan’s society.”

The 82-minute film, written by Shimotsu and Momoko Sahara, also stars Yuzu Aoki and Pierre Taki. It joins Shudder’s growing library of international horror that uses genre filmmaking to examine cultural anxieties.

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Colombia’s Oscar Entry “Rains Over Babel” Sets New York Premiere and LA Screening

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A queer tropical-punk twist on Dante’s Inferno is heading to New York and Los Angeles.

Rains Over Babel, Colombia’s official submission for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards, will have its New York premiere at Museum of the Moving Image on December 5. The film screens in Los Angeles on November 5 at Instituto Cervantes.

Writer-director Gala del Sol’s debut feature premiered at Sundance and became the highest-grossing Colombian film of 2026 during a 14-week theatrical run. It also made history as the first Colombian feature invited to screen at Pixar Animation Studios.

Set in a retro-futuristic version of Cali, Colombia, the film follows misfits who gather at Babel, a dive bar that doubles as purgatory. La Flaca (Saray Rebolledo) presides over lost souls gambling years of their lives to outwit Death. Over one night, their stories collide. Dante searches for his forgotten past, the ghost Monet races to reclaim his body, Timbí and Uma descend through purgatory to save loved ones, and Jacob prepares for his debut drag performance.

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Italian Horror Film The Holy Boy Hits Shudder After Fantastic Fest Wins

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A tormented teacher discovers a dark secret in a too-happy Italian village in The Holy Boy, Paolo Strippoli’s new folk horror film coming to Shudder on November 27th.

The film follows Sergio, a teacher transferred to Remis, a secluded town known as the happiest place in Italy. He finds out why. Every week, villagers gather to hug Matteo, a 15-year-old whose embrace can supposedly erase pain and sorrow. When Sergio realizes the town’s devotion to the boy isn’t as benevolent as it looks, his attempt to rescue him backfires hard.

The Holy Boy won the Audience Award and New Wave Best Director at Fantastic Fest and played the Venice Film Festival and BFI London. Variety called it “a clever, creepy Italian chiller” that uses horror to investigate “the dangers of displaced grief.” Dread Central said Strippoli’s film “reaches straight through the chest to grab hold of your heart and squeeze it dry.”

Strippoli previously directed A Classic Horror Story for Netflix and won Best Director at Taormina Film Fest for it. He’s got another horror film, The Spiral, coming later this year.

The Holy Boy stars Michele Riondino and Giulio Feltri. It’s written by Strippoli, Jacopo Del Giudice, and Milo Tissone.

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Jet2 Partners with Adobe to Build AI-Powered Holiday Planning Tools

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ADOBE-JET-2UK tour operator Jet2 is teaming up with Adobe to bring personalized AI features to its 10 million customers.

The multi-year partnership centers on Adobe CX Enterprise Coworker, which uses AI to help Jet2 staff deliver customized travel recommendations at scale. The system will suggest destinations based on each customer’s booking history and preferences, from family resorts to city breaks, and create daily itineraries for travelers already on vacation.

Jet2 will also use Adobe’s content tools to produce on-brand material faster. Adobe Firefly Foundry lets the company build custom AI models trained on its own assets, while Adobe Brand Intelligence keeps outputs consistent across platforms.

A new joint Customer Experience Lab will bring Adobe engineers and Jet2’s digital teams together to test and build new AI services, like smarter ways to match travelers with trips that fit their style.

“Customers know they will always receive a VIP experience when they holiday with us,” said David Hills, Jet2’s chief customer officer. “Working with Adobe will enable us to serve our customers even better, using the power of AI to make every interaction more personal, more relevant, more timely and always helpful.”

Jet2 is the UK’s largest tour operator and third largest airline, flying from 14 UK airports.

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Sundance Award-Winner Soul Patrol Opens in Theaters with Hidden Story of Vietnam’s First Black Special Ops Team

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A documentary uncovering one of the Vietnam War’s most overlooked stories is coming to theaters. Soul Patrol, which won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at Sundance, follows the first all-Black special operations team to operate behind enemy lines.

Director J.M. Harper sat down with the surviving members of this elite unit, who reunite in a hotel room 50 years after the war. Using raw Super 8 footage, photographs, and audio recordings from their personal archives, the film reconstructs their mission with an intimacy rarely seen in war documentaries.

The setting becomes surreal as the men grapple with memory, brotherhood, and unresolved trauma. At the core is a painful contradiction: fighting for freedom abroad while facing inequality at home.

Harper adapted the film from Ed Emanuel’s memoir. The project was produced by Sam Bisbee, Harper, Danielle Massie, Peter Bittenbender, and Nasir Jones.

Critics are calling it essential. The Hollywood Reporter praised it as “jolting and heartbreaking,” while Variety noted its contribution to understanding both the Vietnam War and Black history.

Soul Patrol opens November 6 at IFC Center in New York, then expands November 13 to LA and nationwide through Kino Lorber. For indie filmmakers tackling buried history, this is a master class in reconstruction and access.

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IMDb Adds Michif as Official Language, a First for Métis Cinema

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IMDb just made history for Indigenous filmmakers. The platform officially added Michif to its list of recognized title languages, giving the Métis language the same structural standing as English or French.

The update comes after years of advocacy led by Métis filmmaker Jordan Waunch, whose anti-western series Shadow of the Rougarou is now the first production credited with Michif as an official title language on the site. Set during the 1885 North-West Resistance, the series features dialogue in Michif, Cree, and Chinook Wawa, weaving a dark story of survival rooted in oral tradition.

“For a long time, Michif has been absent from the systems that catalogue and classify screen work,” Waunch says. “Seeing it recognized on IMDb gives our language a visible place in the global record of cinema.”

He credits the milestone to Elders and Language Keepers including Stella Erasmus Johnson, Bruce Dumont, Don Campbell, Theodore Starr, Lisa Shepherd, Douglas Robertson, and Ray G. Thunderchild.

But the work isn’t done. Waunch says the next step is getting IMDb to recognize distinct Michif dialects and other Indigenous languages still left off the platform.

Shadow of the Rougarou was backed by the Indigenous Screen Office, Creative BC, the Bell Fund, and APTN. The series streams now on APTN+.

This matters because language preservation starts with visibility, and for indie Indigenous creators, that means showing up in the same databases as every other film.

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French Documentary GABIN Makes U.S. Premiere at DOC NYC

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A decade-long documentary following a French farm boy from age 8 to 18 is screening at DOC NYC November 14.

GABIN, directed by Maxence Voiseux, tracks Gabin Jourdel as he grows up in northern France, torn between taking over his father’s butcher shop and his own dreams of training contest cows, breeding dogs, and saving his mother’s farm. Voiseux filmed over ten years to capture the journey.

The film premiered at Cannes in the Quinzaine des Cineastes section, where Variety’s Guy Lodge called it “a remarkably fleet, fluent feat of observation and editing.” Screen Daily’s Lee Marshall compared it to Boyhood, noting “Gabin is remarkable for its immediacy and its feel for story.”

DOC NYC Senior Programmer Murtada Elfadl says Voiseux’s “patient lens is attuned to the joys and vexes of everyday existence as well as the larger questions of maturing and moving on.”

Since Cannes, the documentary has played Locarno, IDFA, Busan, Vancouver, and Melbourne, among others. It’s Voiseux’s first feature. He was born in the Ardennes in 1988 and studied science before switching to documentary filmmaking at Paris VII University.

The U.S. premiere screens November 14 at 3:35 PM at IFC Center, followed by a Q&A with producer Cécile Lestrade. The film will also be available to stream virtually November 15 through 29.

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Eric Harburn Makes Writing Debut With Crime Thriller Set in NYC Music Scene

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Veteran comic book editor Eric Harburn is writing his first graphic novel. Humbucker, a crime thriller set in New York City’s music scene, arrives from Image Comics and Tiny Onion in spring 2027.

The book follows Denny, owner of a struggling indie record label, who bets everything on recording the mythical debut album of Connor Markes, an influential underground musician who vanished from the scene decades ago. Denny sets up a session at a legendary NYC studio where Jimi Hendrix, Blondie, and The Rolling Stones once recorded. But the session falls apart when Connor can’t perform and Denny’s loan shark shows up.

Harburn co-created the book with Eisner Award-nominated artist Simon Gane (Ghost Tree, They’re Not Like Us). Colors come from Eisner winner Jordie Bellaire (Exquisite Corpses, The Nice House series), with lettering by Aditya Bidikar (In Your Skin, The Department of Truth).

Harburn spent sixteen years editing comics at BOOM! Studios and Tiny Onion, working on over one hundred properties including Something is Killing the Children and Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR. He’s now Director of Narrative and Editor-in-Chief at Tiny Onion.

“During a recent visit to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, an idea struck me like a power chord,” Harburn said. “A pressure cooker of crime and creative ambition, Martin McDonagh meets Elmore Leonard, all set within a legendary recording studio.”

Gane said the characters felt alive from the first read. “Putting your head above the parapet can leave you exposed and vulnerable. As our characters will find out, very, very vulnerable.”

Humbucker arrives in comic shops April 14, 2027, and bookstores May 11, 2027.

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