April 2022 promises to be a busy month for Disney Plus. The increasingly popular streamer will deliver movies and TV shows aplenty in the fourth month of the year, and there'll be something for every kind of viewer to enjoy.

For superhero fans, four episodes of Marvel Studios' Moon Knight will exclusively air on Disney Plus . Family friendly offerings, including Ice Age: Scrat Tales and Better Nate Than Ever, will join the fray to keep the kids entertained during the Easter holidays. And, for Disney Plus UK subscribers wanting to get their reality TV fix, The Kardashians – yes, you read that right – makes its debut on the streamer. US viewers, meanwhile, will be able to catch that on Disney Plus' sister streamer, aka Hulu .

There will be plenty of non-Disney produced movies and shows to enjoy, too. The Walking Dead season 11 will continue its slow shuffle towards its climax, while new episodes of NCIS will similarly drop weekly. There will be lots of natural history-centric programs to enjoy in and around Earth Day, too, which arrives on April 22. And, if all else fails, you can always watch the Marvel movies in order for the umpteenth time. Just don't expect to see The Incredible Hull alongside its MCU cousins .

But we digress. Here's everything that's coming to Disney Plus in April 2022.

Moon Knight

When to stream it: Wednesday, March 30

Technically, Moon Knight will have already debuted by the time April rolls around. But, with four episodes of the latest Marvel Phase 4 project releasing during this month, it deserves a place on this list.

For those unfamiliar with the MCU's newest superhero: Oscar Isaac ( Star Wars , Dune ) plays Steven Grant, a mild mannered gift shop employee who discovers that he has dissociative identity disorder (DID). The result of this mental health condition? Steven has multiple personalities living inside his head, including a ruthless mercenary called Marc Spector (Isaac) and a superpowered alter-ego called Moon Knight (also Isaac).

When the mysterious but villainous Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke) threatens to install a new world order, it's up to Steven/Grant/Moon Knight and their allies – Layla El-Faouly (May Calamawy), and Khonshu, the Egyptian god of the moon and vengeance (F Murray Abraham) – to put a stop to Harrow's nefarious plan.

Read our spoiler-free review now, and then check out our exclusive interview coverage .

Better Nate Than Ever

When to stream it: Friday, April 1

If a surreal, supernatural-infused, mature superhero offering isn't your idea of a good time, maybe this family-friendly comedy musical will be instead.

Based on the 2013 novel of the same name, Better Nate Than Ever stars newcomer Rueby Wood as Nate Foster, an unpopular teenager who dreams of becoming a a star on Broadway. When his aspirations are constantly overlooked, Nate runs away to New York with best friend Libby (Aria Brooks) to find his estranged Aunt Heidi ( Friends ' Lisa Kudrow) and turn those dreams into reality. One to keep the kids entertained during the Easter holidays, in our view.

A Monster Calls

When to stream it: Friday, April 8

This dark fantasy drama, which originally debuted in theaters in 2016, is another book-to-movie adaptation. However, its thematic exploration of grief, deeply moving story, beautiful visuals, and all-star cast make it a must-watch when it lands on Disney Plus.

A Monster Calls stars Lewis MacDougall as Conor, son to his terminally ill mom (Felicity Jones), who strikes up an unlikely friendship-of-sorts with a giant anthropomorphic tree (voiced by Liam Neeson) one fateful night. As his mother's condition worsens, Conor finds himself seeking solace in his new partner's intriguing tales – little does he know, however, that he'll have to return the favor when the right time comes.

The Kardashians

When to stream it: Thursday, April 14

Less than a year after Keeping Up With the Kardashians' 20-season run ended on Us network E!, the Kardashian-Jenner family are back for more reality TV-based capers in this semi-sequel series.

Unsurprisingly, the show is set to follow Kim, Kourtney, and Khloé Kardashian, plus members of the Jenner family – Kylie, Kendall, and Kris – and the Kardashian sisters' current partners, including Travis Barker. The gang will grant an all-access pass to viewers about every inch of their lives, as well as the drama and comedy that ensues.

It's not for everyone, but we're sure that there will be some Disney Plus (and Hulu) subscribers out there who'll revel in the Kardashians' TV return.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

When to stream it: Friday, April 29

The first movie in the critically-acclaimed Planet of the Apes reboot film franchise, the Rupert Wyatt-directed Rise of the Planet of the Apes will swings its way onto Disney Plus before the month is out.

Based on Pierre Boulle's 1963 sci-fi novel, Rise tells the tale of Caesar (Andy Serkis), an infant chimp raised by a San Francisco-based scientist Will Rodman (James Franco). Rodman, whose experimental Alzheimer's drug project is wound up after a near-fatal incident, soon discovers that his radical treatment granted Caesar increased intelligence – Caesar's mom was one of Rodman's animal test subjects, meaning he was exposed to the drug in-utero.

Based on this revelation, Rodman decides to continue his experiment in secret. But, as Caesar's intellect and abilities grow, outside forces learn of his potential threat to humanity – and vow to eradicate Caesar and his surrogate father.

Rise of the Planet of the Apes drew widespread acclaim upon its initial 2011 release, and went on to spawn two sequels that performed similarly well. 11 years on, it remains one of the best sci-fi flicks on modern times, too.

Everything coming to Disney Plus in April 2022

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Paramount Plus’ Godfather series is being massacred by critics

“Look how they massacred my series,” Don Vito Corleone might say if he could see the critical reactions to Paramount Plus’ latest drama, The Offer.

Airing exclusively on the burgeoning streaming service , Michael Tolkin’s 10-episode show re-tells the making of Francis Ford Coppola's legendary gangster movie, The Godfather, from the perspective of its ambitious producer, Albert S. Ruddy (played by Miles Teller). But, for all the craft and style of its source material, The Offer hasn’t gone down well with reviewers privy to its first few episodes.

Before we dig into the dirt, though, check out the trailer for the new Paramount Plus series below, which begins streaming on Thursday, April 28.

Let’s kick off with the show’s credentials on Rotten Tomatoes . According to the review aggregator site, The Offer currently has a 47% critics rating – which essentially means that over half of reviewers considered the show unworthy of recommendation (based on Rotten Tomatoes’ binary ‘fresh’ or ‘rotten’ metric).

In fairness, that’s not a terrible figure as new movies and TV series go, especially when considering that the latest Sony-produced Marvel movie , Morbius, wears a comparatively shameful 16% critics rating around its neck. Still, a quick read into the substance behind The Offer’s negative reviews betrays a similarly frosty reception.

The Hollywood Reporter’s Dan Fienberg, for instance, described Paramount’s latest series as “an illustrated Wikipedia entry stretched illogically to 10 hours by pandering to cinema fans with endless winking and nudging, and with performances that range from likably cartoonish to Madame Tussauds in a heatwave.” Not great, then.

The Playlist’s Rodrigo Perez was equally unimpressed : “What unremarkably ensues is a kind of broad and tacky Godfather cosplay with zero subtext, nothing to say and very little to aspire to other than telling an increasingly self-satisfied tale of how The Godfather was made.”

Refreshingly, Ben Travers of Indiewire began his review with praise for the “vigorous charisma” of Matthew Goode’s Robert Evans – the Paramount studio executive responsible for ordering The Godfather’s creation – though he, too, took aim at The Offer’s overall lack of substance: “[It’s] a soulless, vapid piece of content that’s about as far removed from ‘art’ as professionally produced television can get.”

IGN’s Siddhant Adlakha similarly criticized the show’s “disconnected subplots, tensionless drama and empty Easter Eggs,” while Slashfilm’s Josh Spiegel simply labeled The Offer “a limited series that should’ve been a movie.”

It would, however, be unfair to ignore the smattering of positive reviews for Paramount’s latest offering. CNET’s Richard Trenholm described the show as “a highly watchable glimpse into the magic of movies [that] makes an offer that's hard to refuse,” also calling it “a treat for movie nerds and Godfather fans.”

Collider’s Maggie Lovitt echoed Trenholm’s enthusiasm: “The Offer is a nail-biting and exhilarating exploration into the making of one of the most iconic and influential films of the 20th century.”

If nothing else, then, The Offer will inevitably prove one of 2022’s more divisive series. Given that the first few episodes of Paramount's live-action Halo adaptation were equally lambasted by critics – we said the show had an "identity problem" in our own review – it appears that the still young streamer has some way to go before it can truly compete with the likes of Netflix and Disney Plus .

As mentioned, The Offer's first three episodes begin streaming this Thursday (April 28) on Paramount Plus in the US, with the remaining seven set to arrive weekly on the same day. The show is expected to debut on Sky and Now TV in the UK, though no release date has been confirmed as yet.

Windows 11’s newest Easter egg is a real time-waster – in a good way

Windows 11 has an Easter egg where you can spin the Settings cog in certain parts of the interface.

The nifty spinning animation was highlighted by The Verge , who reported on the ability to do this in the Notepad app after a denizen of Reddit posted about it. Further additions to that Reddit thread include the observation that the ability is also present in the new Task Manager, at least in the dev and beta builds for Windows 11 testers.

Again, this is the same deal – bottom-left, there’s a cog icon that you can spin, and it’s a surprisingly addictive little extra.

Presumably we can expect more cogs to be fully spinnable elsewhere in the interface of Windows 11 in the future, too.

Analysis: Some Windows extras are pretty obvious, others not so much…

Hidden extras in Windows are nothing new, of course, and indeed they can go quite some time undiscovered. Very recently an enterprising user managed to find an Easter egg in the very first version of Windows , somehow, which comprised of a secret list of developers who worked on Windows 1.0 (one of them being a certain Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve).

So that particular nugget lay undiscovered for nearly 37 years before it was stumbled across. Makes you wonder if there are some incredibly well-hidden secrets in Windows 10 or 11 (or indeed other recent versions of Microsoft’s desktop operating system). We’re betting there are, somewhere…