At last, we have a week where the labels appear to cater directly to me. After all, not one, but two Steven Soderbergh-produced TV shows are getting released this week, alongside the newest Emmanuel Lubezki-shot film. The former shows are the first season (yesterday, it was confirmed that there would be a second) of the Soderbergh-produced The Girlfriend Experience and the second season of The Knick. Both shows are excellent television with brilliant finales and breathtaking cinematography, but whereas Girlfriend mostly stays in a moody, clinical style (if you’re into tableaux of empty environments reflected in glass, run, don’t walk, to the nearest store selling this show), The Knick goes even further than the first did in dismantling the staid Soderbergh style in favor of something livelier and crazier. Both are well worth your time, and Girlfriend in particular cries out to be watched if you want to see a star-is-born performance from its lead, Riley Keough. Moving onto the Lubezki film, it’s Rodrigo Garcia’s Last Days in the Desert, a slightly unconventional movie about Jesus which imagines the final days of his 40-day fast, with Ewan McGregor playing both Jesus and a vision of the Devil sent to torment him. I’d be happier about this release if Broad Green (the schmucks who previously brought you “let’s give The Neon Demon the most half-assed ‘wide-release’ in history”) hadn’t decided in their infinite wisdom to give it a DVD-only release. They should take more cues from A24, who’ve gotten even their most minor releases Blu-Ray releases. The Lobster, out this week, isn’t one of those minor titles, since it’s wonderful, but I needed a segue. And Lobster is joined by another semi-dystopia movie, Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise. I’m not even going to try to connect those with Keanu, the slightly disappointing feature film debut of Key and Peele, nor that with Garry Marshall’s unfortunate swan song, Mother’s Day, and especially not that with Scream Factory’s special edition of Philip Kaufman’s 1978 retelling of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. And I’m still not sure how Puerto Ricans in Paris could go with anything here.

April and the Extraordinary World (Universal)
Batman: The Killing Joke (Warner)
The Blacklist: The Complete Third Season (Sony)
Blindspot: The Complete First Season (Warner)
The Bronze (Sony)
Confirmation (HBO)
David Cronenberg’s Early Works – Stereo/Crimes of the Future/Transfer/From the Drain (Arrow, UK-only, Region B)
The Girlfriend Experience: Season One (Starz)
High-Rise (Magnolia)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Shout Factory)
Keanu (Warner)
The Knick: The Complete Second Season (HBO)
Last Days in the Desert (Broad Green, DVD-only)
The Lobster (Lionsgate)
The Mark of Zorro (Kino)
Meet the Blacks (Lionsgate)
Mother’s Day (Universal)
Puerto Ricans in Paris (Universal)
Rawhide (Kino)
The Trust (Lionsgate)