Arts Alerts: Check out what’s dropping on your Screens

April 3: “Bondsmen” stars Kevin Bacon as a murdered bounty hunter who’s back from the dead after being resurrected by the Devil to find and return demons who escaped from Hell’s prison. In its eight episodes, he realizes his sins and hopes for redemption. Amazon Prime.

Food connoisseurs should check out ‘Pati Jinich Explores Panamericana’ on PBS.

April 6: “Lazarus” is a 13-episode anime sci-fi series about secret agents who have 30 days to hunt for a vaccine to save humanity — except it turns out that after the drug frees the stricken from pain, the patients die. Cartoon Network’s “Adult Swim.”

April 11: Jon Hamm stars in the nine-episode series “Your Friends of Neighbors” as a hedge-fund manager who’s fired and feels forced to turn to crime. Amanda Peet co-stars. Apple+.

April 11: In a fresh take on the New Testament, “King of Kings” is an animated film with storyteller Charles Dickens trying to bond with his son by sharing the story of Jesus. Voice actors include Oscar Isaac as Jesus, with Kenneth Branagh as Dickens, Mark Hamill as Herod, Pierce Brosnan as Pilate, Forest Whitaker as Peter, and Ben Kingsley as Caiaphas. In select theaters.

April 18: Filmmaker Ryan Coogler (“Fruitvale Station,” “Black Panther”) directed the horror yarn “Sinners,” with Michael B. Jordan in a dual role as twins who return to their hometown in the 1930s South and encounter something even more evil than Jim Crow. In theaters.

April 18: “Sneaks” stars Anthony Mackie, Martin Lawrence, Laurence Fishburne, Macy Gray and Keith David in an animated tale about a designer sneaker lost in New York City, where he must rescue his sister and return to his rightful owner. In theaters.

April 29: “Pati Jinich Explores Panamericana” is a three-part series hosted by the award-winning chef and author about appreciating the ties between the United States and Mexico through meals (at least until the threatened trade war). PBS.

April 30: After celebrating its 40th anniversary, the restored version of 1984’s “Stop Making Sense” — Talking Heads’ renowned concert film directed by Jonathan Demme — is showing at TempleLive’s reopened Scottish Rite Cathedral. Besides the motion picture, Talking Heads’ guitarist and keyboard player Jerry Harrison will introduce the film, comment afterward, and take part in a Q&A. Scottish Rite Cathedral.



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