This Week in Streaming (April 1st)
Our recommendations to counteract the endless scrolling.
Holland (Prime) Despite scattershot reviews, this largely Nashville shot Nicole Kidman neo-noir about a smalltown Michigan teacher who suspects her husband is having an affair is an unhinged trip that never quite veers into American Beauty’s urbanite contempt for the rest of us. With assists from Gael Garcia Bernal and Matthew Macfayden, this would have been a heck of a weekend at the art theater circa 2006. At least those who worked on the production got a Kidman-hosted hometown premiere at The Belcourt last Tuesday.
The Dick Van Dyke Show (Peacock) A half-century before 30 Rock, Carl Reiner’s sitcom about a writer for a fussy TV host brought meta to broadcast audiences. Even if they went on to bigger things, Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore have our vote as the ultimate primetime couple—ottoman and all.
School of Rock (Paramount+) Minecraft’s release this weekend finds Jack Black anchoring another middling family blockbuster franchise. But there was a time when he could cater to the kids and stick it to the man. Relive Black as a slacker local rocker who finds his true purpose as a fraudulent substitute teacher at a snooty private school in one of the early aughts’ greatest.