I’ll cop to never having seen Exte: Hair Extensions or Suicide Club, but Sion Sono’s four-hour upskirt and boner epic Love Exposure, which showed at Fantasia this year, spun my head around so violently and hilariously that I was very excited to see that the latest DVD release from my new favourite distributor, Montreal’s Evokative Films, is his 2005 film Hazard.

While not as epically weird as Love Exposure, Hazard is a hazy and intriguing journey through early-’90s New York (though details like Curb Your Enthusiasm billboards sort of give the game away) as seen through the eyes of three Japanese guys, one American-born, who basically tear through the city. I’m beginning to see a pattern in Evokative’s releases, which tend to favour movies that skirt the edges of genre and that tend to have baggy, freewheeling narratives (Adrift in Tokyo is another good example). It’s a vibe I like. Hazard sometimes lost me with its drifting looseness, but I loved Sono’s noisy (visually and aurally) interpretation of New York. As always with Evokative releases, it’s presented in beautifully designed and environmentally friendly packaging.

If you’re a fan of British TV, you’ve probably already found a way to watch a couple of shows that come out in official DVD releases this week—but if you haven’t already seen The Mighty Boosh or the original Life on Mars, this is your chance (and if you have, you can finally go legit). The Boosh is a gently surrealist comedy show created by and starring Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding; set in a zoo, it could almost be a kid’s show, but… not quite. It’s very funny though, and unlike pretty much any other comedy concern going these days. Life on Mars is a cop show with a slightly sci-fi hook; Sam Tyler (John Simm) is a Manchester police officer who’s hit by a car and wakes up in the 1970s, with the same job. It’s a smart and intriguing take on the procedural genre.