April streaming highlights

Luca Fontana

1.4.2026

Translation: Veronica Bielawski

New month, new streaming recommendations. From Netflix to Prime Video, Disney+, Sky Show, Apple TV and HBO Max, these are our series and film picks on streaming services this April.

Last night, my neighbour decided to ring my doorbell at 3 a.m. I nearly sent the drill plummeting to the floor out of sheer fright! Thank goodness I could appease him with this April’s film and series highlights.

Netflix

Dorohedoro, Season 2 (anime series)

Six years. Fans had to wait six dang years for Dorohedoro to return. Now the wait is over, and my colleague, Kevin, a massive anime fan, made it abundantly clear that I absolutely HAD to include it in this list. Who am I to refuse?

For those unfamiliar with it, Dorohedoro is set in The Hole, a run-down district whose residents serve as guinea pigs for sorcerers. At the centre of it all is Caiman, a man with a lizard head suffering from memory loss. He teams up with his gyoza-frying partner Nikaido to find the sorcerer who cursed him.

Sounds mad? That’s because it is. It’s also brutal, absurd, tender and visually unlike anything else; Studio MAPPA’s animation style lies somewhere between punk and nightmare. Season 2 picks up right where Season 1 left off – with unresolved mysteries, new enemies from the Cross-Eyes Organisation and the question of who Caiman really is. It kicks off with three episodes released in one go, followed by one a week.

Starts: 1 April

Stranger Things: Tales from ‘85 (series)

Ever wonder what actually happened between the second and third seasons of Stranger Things? Neither has anyone else. Either way, we’re now getting an answer. Tales from ’85 fills the gap with an animated series visually reminiscent of Clone Wars and, content-wise, well… like everything we’re already familiar with: synth beats, 80s nostalgia and underground monsters.

Fair enough – for die-hard fans, this will probably be a wee feast for the eyes. For everyone else, it’s more the streaming equivalent of a bonus track that makes it obvious why it was labelled «bonus». But hey, Netflix never claimed every spin-off had to be groundbreaking. Sometimes it’s enough if it keeps subscriber numbers up.

Starts: 6 April

Apex (movie)

Charlize Theron and action is like coffee and the morning: it just works. In Apex, she plays a grieving woman who heads into the Australian wilderness in search of peace but instead becomes the target of a serial killer, played by Taron Egerton. Sounds like a thriller I’ve already seen a hundred times. But then I look at the cast – which also includes Eric Bana – and think, alright, maybe it’s not quite so generic after all.

It was filmed in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, and director Baltasar Kormákur (Everest, Beast) knows how to turn a landscape into a menace. Whether Apex turns out to be more than just solid survival cinema or really gets under your skin remains to be seen. Theron, at any rate, has proved in recent years that she can carry a movie with a thin script. And Egerton certainly can, too.

Starts: 24 April

Amazon Prime Video

The Boys, Season 5 (series)

The time has come: the bloodiest, nastiest and politically sharpest superhero saga of our time is coming to an end. The Season 4 finale left a hell of a lot to clean up. Butcher is on the run with a nasty case of Supe Virus, Homelander has turned himself into America’s tyrant... and the Boys? They’re sitting in prison. Oaft.

Season 5 delivers exactly what you’d expect from The Boys – blood, insanity and satire that cuts so close to reality it hurts. Karl Urban gets to push Butcher fully into darkness, while Antony Starr drives Homelander into absolute megalomania. And as if that wasn’t enough, Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins join the cast as two more Supernatural veterans. Eric Kripke is apparently bringing back the whole old gang to give his masterpiece a fitting finale. Any series that has been this fearless, deserves an ending that’s just as uncompromising.

Starts: 8 April

Disney+

Pizza Movie (movie)

Two students have to go two floors down to collect their pizza. That’s the entire plot. No, really. But because they took a ten-year-old drug that takes them through six phases of absolutely everything – from body swaps to exploding heads – the trip to pick up their spicy salami pie turns into a fight for survival. Tell me that isn’t a pitch that was cooked up after three beers!

Pizza Movie wants to bring back the genre of stoner comedy – somewhere between Harold & Kumar and The Big Lebowski – but with Gaten Matarazzo (Stranger Things) making his first post-Hawkins appearance. And Daniel Radcliffe as the voice of a butterfly. Just go with it. All I can say is: I absolutely need to see this!

Starts: 3 April

Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord (series)

Finally! Finally, one of the best villains from Star Wars is getting his own series. It gives us ten episodes set between The Clone Wars and Rebels, with Maul using the power vacuum of the early Imperial era to rebuild his criminal network. No Jedi adventure, no chosen-one pathos – just a dark underworld saga.

What really got me hooked: Maul gets an apprentice, Devon Izara, a disillusioned former Padawan who’s had enough of the light side. Master and apprentice, but without the usual black-and-white morality – that’s exactly the kind of Star Wars I’ve been wanting for years. Add to that Sam Witwer’s voice and a new animation style that takes Clone Wars and bathes it in deep reds and blacks, as if Maul were the monster in a horror movie. I’m hooked.

Starts: 6 April

Sky Show

The Miniature Wife (series)

A marriage in crisis – we’ve seen it before. But a marriage in crisis that sees the wife shrunk down to the size of a Barbie doll? That’s new. The Miniature Wife takes on this absurd premise and plays it with deadly seriousness. Les, a scientist, accidentally shrinks his wife Lindy during one of his experiments. Can’t he undo it? No, as it could kill her. So she stays small. And with that, the power dynamic in their already fragile relationship finally reaches a breaking point.

What sounds like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids but as a marriage drama is just that – but the tone it strikes is akin to Succession. And it’s no wonder – Matthew Macfadyen, who traumatised an entire generation as Tom Wambsgans, plays the husband. Elizabeth Banks plays Lindy, mini, yet anything but defenceless. On top of that, a script that, according to the cast, seems to oscillate between Kafka-esque and cringe. Ten episodes, released in one go.

Starts: 9 April

Reef Hawk is Hollywood’s most popular star. Modest, generous, scandal-free – a man everyone loves. At least that’s what he believes. Until a blackmailer shows up with a video that could ruin his career, forcing Reef to confront his darkest moments. In the process, he learns that everyone around him apparently thinks he’s a total asshole. How could he not have known?

I like how meta the story is. Reef Hawk is played by Keanu Reeves – quite possibly the most popular Hollywood star ever, a man who rides the underground like a normal person, offers elderly women his seat, donates millions and hasn’t had even the tiniest of scandals. Reeves is basically playing himself, but with the twist that he’s the only person on the planet who buys into his own image. Marvellous! It’s a must-watch for me.

Starts: 10 April

For three years, fans have been asking the same question: will there be a third season or not? Now it’s here, and it has left high school behind entirely. No more school hallways, no more dick pics and no more glitter-fuelled toilet-cubicle trips. Instead, we fast-forward five years: Rue (Zendaya) is stranded in Mexico, hunted by a drug baroness she still owes money to. Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) and Nate, meanwhile, are engaged and living in the suburbs. She’s addicted to social media and OnlyFans, he’s… who knows. His blood-soaked wedding suit shown in the trailer certainly doesn’t bode well.

The tone has shifted noticeably. It’s less teen drama, more crime thriller. Sam Levinson is no longer staging Euphoria as a stylised portrayal of youth, but as something rougher and more adult. The cast also features some new faces, such as Sharon Stone, Rosalía and Natasha Lyonne, and when it comes to the soundtrack, even Hans Zimmer and Labrinth. If this season turns out to be even half as unpredictable as the trailer promises, we’re in for a wild ride.

Starts: 12 April (also on Sky Show!)

Luca Fontana

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I write about technology as if it were cinema, and about films as if they were real life. Between bits and blockbusters, I’m after stories that move people, not just generate clicks. And yes – sometimes I listen to film scores louder than I probably should.

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