Best new movies and TV series on Disney+ Australia: April 2022

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Disney+‘s Australian library. Here’s Eliza Janssen’s recommendations for the titles most worth watching. Scroll down for the full list of everything arriving on the platform.

Top picks

Better Nate Than Ever (April 1)

The Venn diagram overlap between theatre kids and Disney adults is a sizeable chunk—perhaps even a circle. This heartwarming original movie goes out to all of ’em, and to anybody who ever missed out on that role they wanted so bad in their school musical. Flamboyant nerd Nate (Rueby Wood) takes things up a notch after his drama class rejection, heading right to Broadway to make his dreams come true.

We love to see Lisa Kudrow as his inspirational auntie, whose own musical theatre dreams have landed her a lowly job as candy bar attendant. There should be plenty of cute song-and-dance numbers, messages about following one’s own voice, and callbacks to other beloved Disney musicals (the show Nate’s auditioning for is a fictional stage adaptation of the House of Mouse’s own Lilo and Stitch).

The Kardashians: Season 1 (April 14)

Did you miss Kim, Khloe, Kourtney, Kris, Kendall, Kylie, and (other family members whose names escape me as they don’t begin with a K)? Probably not, since their last long-running reality TV series only ended about a year ago. Through Disney+ the privileged family seems to have only enriched their powers of PR control, taking on yet another reality title that promises behind-the-scenes access to one of celebrity’s most controversial dynasties.

They’re not ‘keeping up with’ anything anymore, having dominated the worlds of beauty, fashion and fame to such an extent that a generation of eating disorders and body dysmorphia can be neatly blamed upon their bronzed shoulders. It remains to be seen whether or not the recent and genuinely disturbing drama surrounding Kim’s break-up with Kanye West will be illuminated or kept in the dark.

Earth Day programming (April 22)

You should certainly get outside to appreciate nature’s bounty on Friday April 22, celebrated worldwide as Earth Day. But if you’d rather appreciate it in an indoorsy fashion, Disney+ is releasing a suite of documentaries on our beautiful planet’s most vital nooks and crannies.

Polar bears have become a mascot of sorts for global warming, and they take centre stage in Polar Bear and Bear Witness. Catherine Keener narrates the former feature, the story of a young mother trying to raise her cub and find them a safe new home. Teach your own little cubs the meaning of words like ‘biodiversity’ with The Biggest Little Farm, a city-to-country renewal project. Or scale new heights with Alex Honnold in Explorer: The Last Tepui: all sound like worthwhile and gorgeously-shot ways to give thanks for each precious biome.


All new titles arriving on Disney+ Australia in April

April 1

Better Nate Than Never
Heat
In Time
Knight and Day
L.A. Confidential
Love & Other Drugs
Man on Fire
Monte Carlo
Noah
What Happens in Vegas
What’s Your Number?
Step Into…The Movies with Derek and Julianne Hough

April 6

FEUD: Bette and Joan: Season 1
The Ghost and Molly McGee: Season 1
The Hardy Boys: Season 1-2
Minnie’s Bow-Toons: Party Palace Pals: Season 1
Wayward Pines: Seasons 1-2
Good Trouble: Season 3
Africa’s Deadliest: Season 5-6
Wild Australia: Season 1

April 8

Rules Don’t Apply
Shutter
Mission Pluto
Wild Ways of the Vikings

April 13

Scrat Tales: Season 1
The Ignorant Angels: Season 1
Baskets: Seasons 1-4
Devs: Season 1
Making History: Season 1
Man Seeking Woman: Seasons 1-3
Random Rings (Shorts): Season 1-2
Riding Britain’s Railways: Season 1

April 15

The Kardashians: Season 1
Joy Ride
Jumper
Street Kings
Russia’s Wild Tiger
The Way of the Cheetah

April 20

Estee in Paris: Season 1
Hacking the System: Season 1
Lion Kingdom: Season 1
The Resident: Season 4

April 21

Captive Audience: Season 1

April 22

Polar Bear
Bear Witness
The Biggest Little Farm
Explorer: The Last Tepui
Unfaithful
The King of Comedy
Natural Born Killers
Once Upon A Time in America
Operation Orangutan
Counting Tigers

April 27

Sketchbook: Season 1
grown-ish: Season 4
Eye Wonder: Season 1
Ghost Whisperer: Season 1-5
Mrs. America: Season 1
PJ Masks: Season 5
Dino Ranch: Season 1
India’s Lost Worlds: Season 1
Invasion Earth: Season 1
Superstructures: Engineering Marvels: Season 1

April 29

Love in Color
Blow Your Mind
JFK: Seven Days That Made a President
Ultimate Tutankhamun


See also
* Best new movies and TV series on Netflix
* Best new movies and TV series on Stan
* Best new movies and TV series on Prime Video
* All new streaming movies & series