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Here’s a collection curated by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists of what’s arriving on TV, streaming services and music platforms this week. MOVIES —“The Assistant”: Julia Garner stars in writer-director Kitty Green’s film about the day in the life of a young assistant to a bigwig in the entertainment industry, available on Hulu starting Monday.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

The past few months have provided some genuine riches from women directors. Autumn de Wilde’s Emma just made it into cinemas before they closed their doors and the end of last month saw the digital release of Kitty Green’s highly praised The Assistant. Eliza Hittman’s powerful Never Rarely Sometimes Always is the latest on the list and destined to have a similar impact.

From Kitty Green (Casting JonBenet) comes an urgent and utterly absorbing feature. The Assistant is a striking, uncomfortable watch, brilliantly performed by lead Julia Garner as a lower-level employee at an entertainment company in modern-day Manhattan.

The director's new film dissects the #MeToo era

The problem of sexual harassment and abuse in the film industry is bigger than “the ‘bad men’ and their bad behaviour,” the director of a new film about a predatory Hollywood executive has said.

The Assistant is set to get a digital release on 1st May according to a press release we’ve just received. The film, which was screened at this year’s Berlin Film Festival just last month, is directed by Kitty Green (Casting JonBenet) and stars Emmy Award-winner Julia Garner (Ozark), Matthew MacFadyen (Succession) and Kristine Forseth (Low Tide).

The Assistant director Kitty Green on Sunday called for men to no longer dominate the media and film industry narrative around the #MeToo movement. "We really need to center women in these narratives.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

By Dino-Ray Ramos

There is untold damage that sexual predators like Harvey Weinstein have perpetrated upon the world. It begins, of course, with the victims, but it doesn’t end there.