New this week on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Videoland, Storytel and Spotify (week 39)

It’s the weekend again and we are only too happy to delve into all the beauty that the streaming services have in store for us. From movies and series to e-books and music on Spotify. Here you will discover the best new films, series, music and e-books.

Netflix

JUST MERCY

Young lawyer Bryan Stevenson decides to move to Alabama after his studies and together with lawyer Eva Ansley help wrongly convicted inmates. One of his first and most controversial cases is that of Walter McMillian, who was wrongfully sentenced to death for the murder of an 18-year-old girl. Bryan finds himself embroiled in a legal and political joust and overt racism in his fight for justice. Based on a true story.

→ watch JUST MERCY

FOREVER RICH

An up-and-coming rapper goes viral when a humiliating video goes viral. To save his honor, he must fight. All night long.

→ watch FOREVER RICH

LUNA PARK (S01)

A free-spirited young woman who grew up in a circus unexpectedly discovers in 1960s Rome that she belongs to two completely different worlds.

→ watch LUNA PARK

Amazon Prime Video

BLACK AS NIGHT

An inventive teenage girl leaves her childhood behind when she takes on a group of deadly vampires in Black as Night, an action-horror with a strong social conscience and a biting sense of humor. Fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a new threat has left its mark on New Orleans in the form of puncture wounds in the throats of the city’s vulnerable displaced population. When her drug-addicted mother becomes the vampire’s latest victim, 15-year-old Shawna (Ashha Cooper) vows to even the score. Shawna and three trusted friends hatch a daring plan to infiltrate the vampire mansion in the historic French Quarter, destroy their leader, and return his minions to their human form. But killing monsters is no easy task, and soon Shawna and her team find themselves caught up in an ancient conflict between warring vampire groups, each battling to claim New Orleans as their permanent home.

→ watch BLACK AS NIGHT

THE PROTEGÉ

Anna and Rembrandt are two of the world’s foremost hitmen with a shared, mysterious past in Vietnam. When Anna’s mentor Moody is murdered, the two rivals must form an uneasy alliance and return to Vietnam to track down the killer.

→ watch THE PROTÉGÉ

Video country

ESCOBAR: PARADISE LOST

Oscar winner Benicio del Toro gives a staggering portrayal as the infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar in this crime drama. However, the film initially centers on Nick (Josh Hutcherson from The Hunger Games), a young surfer who, while visiting his brother in Colombia, gets the feeling that all his dreams will come true. He falls head over heels in love with the stunning Maria (Claudia Traisac). Everything goes as in a dream until he meets her uncle, the aforementioned Escobar. His relationship suddenly appears in a completely different light. Henceforth, the least suspicious move could cost him his life.

→ ESCOBAR: Watch PARADISE LOST

Pathé Home

FREE GUY

Guy experiences the same every day. He goes to work in the bank, survives a robbery, plays a game of softball and goes to bed. Until he finds special glasses.

→ watch FREE GUY

CRUELLA

PREMIUM VOD. London, 1970s. Young con artist Estella, a smart and creative young lady, is determined to become known for her fashion designs. One day, Estella’s talent is discovered by Baroness von Hellman, a devastatingly chic and terrifying haute fashion legend. But their relationship sets certain things in motion and revelations that will eventually cause Estella to embrace her bad side and become the fashionable and vengeful Cruella.

→ watch CRUELLA

Spotify

→ LIBERTÉ – THE DOOBIE BROTHERS listen

storytel

Shocking and controversial, John Steinbeck’s classic masterpiece “The Grapes of Wrath” was released in 1939 and suddenly confronted America with its own seamy side. Against the backdrop of bone-dry Oklahoma and California’s migrant life, we follow the Joad family, who, like thousands of other smallholders and farm workers in the 1930s, are forced to leave for the West in search of the promised land – and at least to work. Their story is one of false hopes, impossible desires and dreams shattered. Yet Steinbeck manages to describe their struggle so intensely humane, grand and with a tremendous moral vision, that ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ is a tribute to the endurance and dignity of the human spirit.

→ Listen to THE GRAPES OF GRAMS

Kobo

THE HANDLE

The Nieuwspoort reporters 2021 describe the enigmatic game of attraction and repulsion between right-wing populist politicians and the ‘mainstream media’, as it has played out in recent years. Right-wing populist politicians and the media are at odds with each other. Accusations of ‘leftist’ bias, ‘trial by media’ and ‘fake news’ are never far off, and then endlessly repeated on social media. If it is up to Thierry Baudet, the ‘media cartel’ will be overhauled and the public broadcaster will be ‘sanitized’. Geert Wilders goes even further: cancel the entire NPO. At the same time, many journalists seem to have a fascination for these politicians. More than average they do their best to get them in front of the camera or microphone. Why actually? Is it the viewing, listening and click figures? Are they genuinely interested in their views? Do they get carried away by hypes? Or does the trauma of the rise of Pim Fortuyn, when journalism seemed to have missed a large part of the population, still play a role? Provided with the necessary inside information, Nieuwspoort reporters Anet Bleich and Natascha van Weezel describe the enigmatic game of attraction and repulsion, as it has played out in recent years. Don’t right-wing populist politicians and the ‘mainstream media’ need each other much more than they want to admit?

→ Read THE HANDLE

More new this week!

We have already given you a nice selection of the new range of streaming services, but there is of course much more New This Week. Are you looking for other new movies, series and music on these streaming networks? On our sister site Nieuw Deze Week you will find everything new on Netflix, Film1, Videoland, Ziggo, Kobo Plus, Pathé Thuis and Spotify! Our Belgian readers can visit Nieuw DezeWeek.be for the latest films and series on Netflix.