April Streaming
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ANOTHER MONTH, another smorgasbord of new films and shows to add to your streaming watchlist. 2024 is flying by, and it seems that with every passing month, that watchlist is only getting longer. April will give you a good chance to catch up though, as the Easter long weekend and ANZAC day provide a string of public holidays in quick succession. Although, any dent made in your watchlist will likely only be temporary, given how much new content is coming to streaming platforms next month.

There will be something for everyone on streaming platforms in April. Whether you’re a fan of side-splitting comedies or intense dramas. But that’s part of the problem. The big hitters like Netflix, Disney+ and Stan are so packed with content that it makes it difficult to discern what’s worth your time and what’s best left on the backburner – especially when you’re prone to indecision and are paying for the luxury of choice.

Not to worry though, Esquire has you covered. Featuring everything from critically acclaimed blockbusters finally making their digital debuts to the premiere of long-awaited original series, we’ve rounded up all the very best films and shows coming to streaming platforms in April 2024.

What’s new on Netflix in April?

April Netflix Highlight – Heartbreak High season 2

April is going to be a particularly huge month for Netflix. As you’ll see, April 1st brings about a slew of new content that Netflix has secured the rights to. Headlining Netflix’s newcomers is the return of Heartbreak High for the reboot’s second season. It’s not often we see Australian made content capturing the world’s attention – not that there’s any shortage of talent down here – but when it does, it’s always exciting. Heartbreak High has managed to replicate the success of the original show, which had seven seasons. With any luck, season two won’t be the reboot’s last.

Elsewhere, American motorsports are getting the Drive To Survive treatment in 100 Days to Indy, which focuses on the behind the scenes action leading up to the Indianapolis 500. While Ripley is a new series based on the same book that The Talented Mr. Ripley was adapted from. The series has a tall task in living up to its predecessor, but with Andrew Scott in the leading role, we can’t count it out. Finally, Zac Snyder’s much maligned sci-fi epic Rebel Moon, which premiered at the end of 2023, is getting a sequel that will arrive midway through the month. The first film wasn’t great, according to just about every critic, but Snyder will get his chance at redemption.

April 1

  • American Graffiti
  • Baby Driver
  • Battleship 
  • Born on the Fourth of July
  • Glass
  • Happy Gilmore
  • Hotel Transylvania
  • Hotel Transylvania 2
  • How to Be Single
  • Inside Man
  • Inside Man: Most Wanted
  • It’s Kind of a Funny Story
  • The Land Before Time
  • The Little Things
  • The Matrix
  • The Matrix Reloaded
  • The Matrix Revolutions
  • Molly’s Game
  • Mortal Engines
  • One Piece Film: Red
  • Role Models
  • Sex and the City, seasons 1-6
  • Smokey and the Bandit
  • Smokey and the Bandit II
  • Split
  • Step Up: Revolution
  • Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
  • The Magic Prank Show With Justin Willman
  • The Theory of Everything
  • Wild Things
  • You’ve Got Mail

April 2

  • Demetri Martin: Demetri Deconstructed
  • Space Jam: A New Legacy

April 3

  • Files of the Unexplained

April 4

  • 100 Days to Indy
  • Blackfish
  • I Woke Up A Vampire
  • Ripley

April 5

  • The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem
  • Parasyte: The Grey
  • Scoop
  • Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV

April 8

  • Spirit Rangers

April 9

  • Neal Brennan: Crazy Good

April 10

  • Anthracite: Secrets of the Sect
  • The Hijacking of Flight 601
  • Unlocked: A Jail Experiment
  • What Jennifer Did

April 11

  • Heartbreak High, season 2
  • The Bricklayer
  • Meekah
  • Midsummer Night
  • As the Crow Flies, season 3

April 12

  • Good Times

April 15

  • The Fairly OddParents, seasons 4-5
  • Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel

April 16

  • Knocked Up
  • Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer

April 17

  • Black Sails, seasons 1-4
  • The Circle, season 6
  • Our Living World
  • The Grimm Variations

April 19

  • Rebel Moon – Part 2: The Scargiver

April 21

  • Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know

April 22

  • Ahead of the Curve

April 24

  • King Richard
  • TLC Forever

April 25

  • Dead Boy Detectives

April 26

  • Hack Your Health: The Secrets of Your Gut

April 29

  • Boiling Point

What’s new on Disney+ in April?

April Disney+ Highlight – The Greatest Hits

It’ll be a relatively quiet month on Disney+ this April. A few shows are getting new episodes weekly, but for the most part, viewers can expect a slight reprieve from the usual onslaught of new content. There are still a few new additions to watch out for though, not least of which is The Greatest Hits. The film follows Harriet (played by Lucy Boynton), who discovers that music can transport her back in time. In the past, she relives memories with her former boyfriend, while in the present, a new love interest leaves her with a difficult decision.

Also on Disney+ next month, family friendly film Wish will be making its streaming debut, We Were The Lucky Ones, which tells the inspiring story of a Jewish family separated during World War II, will debut, and Bon Jovi fans will get an all-access look at the band’s history in Thank You, Good Night: The Bon Jovi Story.

April 1

  • Vanderpump Villa – 3 episode premiere

April 3

  • Wish

April 12

  • The Greatest Hits

April 17

  • We Were The Lucky Ones

April 26

  • Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story

April 30

  • The Veil

New episodes of Shōgun, The Bad Batch, The Impossible Heir, Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, Undead Unluck, Will Trent, Not Dead Yet and Marvel’s X-Men 97 will also appear weekly throughout April.

What’s new on Stan in April?

April Stan Highlight – Walker, season 4

Walker is a reboot of hit ’90s action series Walker, Texas Ranger. The show follows the recently-widowed Cordell Walker, a legendary – you guessed it – Texas ranger. The series begins after Walker returns home from an extended time working undercover, only to find that his job is anything but over. In season 4, expect Walker to start questioning the dubious circumstances surrounding his wife’s death.

In other news, the latest addition to the Ghostbusters franchise, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, hit cinemas last week. While it’s not on Stan, three other Ghostbusters instalments are making their way to the platform on April 12th. We smell a movie marathon brewing.

April 1

  • Bloodshot

April 2

  • Rheingold
  • All American, season 2

April 4

  • Walker, season 4
  • Butchers of the Bayou

April 5

  • Taken 1, 2 and 3

April 8

  • White Lies

April 9

  • Godland

April 10

  • Independence Day
  • Independence Day: Resurgence 

April 11

  • Homefront

April 12

  • Ghostbusters (1984)
  • Ghostbusters 2
  • Ghostbusters (2016)

April 13

  • 14 Blades
  • Postman Pat: The Movie

April 14

  • Undercover
  • The Horsemen of the Apocalypse

April 15

  • Ema
  • Summoning Sylvia
  • Sullivan’s Crossing, season 2

April 16

  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • In Therapy

April 17

  • Chariots of Fire

April 18

  • Such Brave Girls

April 19

  • Ice Age
  • Ice Age 2: The Meltdown 
  • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
  • Ice Age: Continental Drift 
  • Ice Age: Collision Course 

April 21

  • Dark Places
  • The Art Dealer

April 22

  • Aurore

April 24

  • The Reaping

April 25

  • Renegades

What’s new on Amazon Prime Video in April?

April Amazon Prime Video Highlight – Fallout

Fallout is easily the most highly anticipated original series heading to any streaming service this month –and there’s good reason for the anticipation, the series was first announced all the way back in 2020. The show is an adaptation of the Fallout video game series, and video-to-streaming adaptations have been all the rage recently, with The Last Of Us and The Witcher setting a strong precedent.

For those unfamiliar with the Fallout universe, the games are set in the post-apocalyptic USA, in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Survivors are desperately trying to rebuild and salvage some semblance of civilisation, while the barren wasteland of America is marked by radiation, mutated creatures and unfriendly encounters around every corner. Expect the adaptation to follow the same tune.

April 1

  • Justified, seasons 1-6
  • Jumanji: The Next Level
  • Smurfs: The Lost Village
  • The Smurfs 2
  • Pixels
  • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
  • The Smurfs

April 2

  • Constantine

April 4

  • Música

April 5

  • How to Date Billy Walsh
  • Out of Death

April 7

  • Mechanic: Resurrection
  • Defiance

April 8

  • Little Women

April 10

  • Get Smart
  • Goosebumps

April 11

  • Fallout

April 16

  • Biosphere
  • Hip Hop World
  • Criminal

April 18

  • Puppy Love
  • Going Home with Tyler Cameron

April 26

  • Past Lives
  • Them, season 2
  • Sayen: La Cazadora
  • Acma Game
  • Comedy Class

April 30

  • American Ultra
  • Jupiter Ascending

What’s new on Binge in April?

April Binge Highlight – The Sympathizer

Based on a Pulitzer-prize-winning novel by celebrated author and past Esquire contributor Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer is a political spy thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat. Set during the culmination of the Vietnam War in 1975, a French-Vietnamese spy (played by Australian Hoa Xuande), has infiltrated the South Vietnamese army but is forced to flee to the US as a refugee once the South falls. Xuande’s character must then decide between his loyalties to his political beliefs and his loyalties to his adopted community – who he continues to spy on. Robert Downey Jr and Sandra Oh also make appearances.

April 1

  • Taboo

April 2

  • Blackadder, seasons 1-4

April 3

  • 10 Cloverfield Lane

April 4

  • Blackberry
  • American Horror Story: Delicate

April 5

  • London Kills, season 2
  • Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
  • Justice USA
  • The Adventures of Tintin 
  • Cujo

April 6

  • Godland
  • 21 Grams 

April 7

  • Truelove

April 8

  • Pet Sematary

April 10

  • Yes, Prime Minister

April 11

  • Biosphere
  • The Origin of Evil
  • Ruby Gillman: Teenaged Kraken
  • Superfan

April 15

  • The Sympathizer

April 24

  • Ford vs Holden
  • Dracula: The Last Voyage of the Demeter

April 26

  • Past Lives
  • Master Gardener

What’s new on Apple TV+ in April?

April Apple TV+ Highlight – Sugar

Starring Colin Farrell, Sugar is a modern take on the classic noir detective story, and is set in California. Farrell plays the eponymous John Sugar, a private investigator trying to track down the granddaughter of a Hollywood producer. As Sugar gets closer to the answers he needs, the case begins to unravel, as he uncovers deeply buried secrets certain powerful forces don’t what him finding out.

Keep an eye out for Franklin too, which will see Michael Douglas portraying polymathic American revolutionary Benjamin Franklin on a little-known mission that history seems to have forgotten.

April 3

  • Loot, season 2

April 5

  • Sugar
  • Girls State

April 12

  • Franklin

April 24

  • The Big Door Prize, season 2

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