The Best TV Shows and Movies New to Netflix, Amazon and More in April
Maybe you shouldn’t watch this movie home alone in the dark.—
Also of interest: “Almost Famous,” “Election,” “Chaplin,” “Days of Thunder,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “JFK,” “RoboCop,” “Serpico,” “Thelma
and Louise,” “Hello, My Name is Doris” (April 2), “In A World” (April 9
As in her previous work (“Fish Tank,” “Wuthering Heights”), Arnold’s camera moves freely
and observes things in detail, giving this movie a sense of the wanderlust followed by its characters.—
Also of interest: “Saturday Night Fever,” “There Will Be Blood,” “Hello, My Name is Doris” (April 2).—
‘The Hours’Starts streaming: April 1Add it to your Watchlist.
Lee previously directed the Peabody-winning film adaptation of Smith’s solo play “A Huey P. Newton Story,”
but this new piece is more freewheeling, using Rodney King’s life and death as a jumping-off point for a monologue about L. A. race relations.—
Also of interest: “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” “An American Tail.”—
‘Almost Famous’Starts streaming: April 1Add it to your Watchlist.
After making totally fine historical dramas like “Empire of the Sun”
and “The Color Purple,” Steven Spielberg embarked on this more personal and sweeping project, based on the true story of a sympathetic German (Liam Neeson) who saved over a thousand Jews from concentration camps during the Holocaust.—
‘Something’s Gotta Give’Starts streaming: April 1Add it to your Watchlist.