New this week on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Videoland and Spotify (week 19)
It’s the weekend again and then we are only too happy to immerse ourselves in all the beauty that the streaming services have in store for us. From films and series to e-books and albums on Spotify. Here you will discover the best new content.
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Netflix
Ferry
Before becoming a drug lord, Ferry Bouman returned to his hometown on a mission of revenge, testing his loyalty and meeting a great love.
→ Watch Ferry
Halston (S01)
An empire got its name. His style defined an era. American fashion designer Halston quickly becomes famous until his life is completely derailed.
→ Watch Halston
Money, Explained (S01)
We spend it, we save it. Let’s talk about money and the many minefields that surround it, from credit cards to casinos, and scammers to student loans.
→ Money, Explained look
Amazon Prime Video
The East
Indonesia, 1946. Johan (Martijn Lakemeier) is a young Dutch soldier who, together with over a hundred thousand others, is sent to put things in order in the Dutch East Indies during the war of independence. Johan gradually falls under the spell of the charismatic army captain Westerling, nicknamed The Turk (Marwan Kenzari). When the war escalates and De Turk beats down the resistance of the population more and more mercilessly, the line between good and evil becomes increasingly blurred for Johan.
→ Watch the East
The Underground Railroad (S01)
The Underground Railroad tells the story of Cora Randall (newcomer Thuso Mbedu) desperate quest for freedom during the Antebellum South. After fleeing the Georgia plantation to pursue rumors about the Underground Railroad, Cora discovers not just any thing, but a railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the southern soil. During her journey, Cora is chased by Ridgeway (Joel Edgerton), a bounty hunter who is determined to return her to the plantation she fled; especially since her mother Mabel is the only one he never caught. As she travels from state to state, Cora grapples with the legacy of the mother who left her and her own struggle to achieve a life she never thought possible.
→ Watch The Undergropund Railroad
Movie1
Sanctuary
Larry and Sophie are both mentally disabled and in love with each other. They buy the gullible aid worker Tom to book an afternoon in a hotel for them on a date. While Larry and Sophie grapple with their feelings, their future, and the use of a condom, their friends from the training center escape Tom’s obscure eye and carry on through the Irish port town of Galway.
→ Watch Sanctuary
Ziggo
Coyote (S01)
After 32 years with the US Border Patrol, after retirement Ben Clemens is forced to work for a notorious Mexican cartel, and is exposed to the tough life on the other side of the border wall.
→ Coyote watch
Spotify
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Storytell
When God Sons Did Not Exist
‘Those who love nostalgia and humor can indulge themselves with this book.’ Louis van Gaal
Maarten Spanjer tells about the time when boys still played football on the street and dreamed of a football career and an Ajax woman. In which football heroes were approachable and did not wear headphones.
In his well-known dry humor Spanjer describes the football adventures of his youth, but also unforgettable encounters with greats such as Michels, Pelé and Maradona. His visit to a prison to play soccer with Willem van Hanegem and Simon Tahamata against murderers and train hijackers is as exciting as it is humorous. These old and new stories have one thing in common: the fun in football is splashing.
→ When God Sons Did Not Exist read
From Prague
Michael van Praag (1947) is the most important football driver in the Netherlands in the last thirty years. He was president of Ajax for fourteen years and president of the KNVB for eleven years. In the spring of 2021 he retired as a board member of UEFA.
As a child of the Jewish person in hiding Jaap van Praag, he experienced an eventful childhood that led to silence at home about the horrors of the war. Father Jaap lost his parents and sister in the gas chambers. The relationship with Jaap van Praag, who ended up in a fighting divorce with his mother Hendrika – known as Joep -, was difficult.
Striking parallels also emerged between father and son. For example, they were both chairman of Ajax. Michael van Praag, commercially successful by a number of shops with electronics at Schiphol and other airports, experienced great successes at Ajax with Louis van Gaal as a trainer. During a walk on the beach in Turkey, he even kept the ambitious Van Gaal for Ajax in 1991, because the trainer as an assistant could have little patience to wait for his chance.
Van Prague is charming and hospitable. He has the reputation of being a bit naive at times, although he managed to open many doors because of his great desire to connect. He was the sole director against Sepp Blatter in 2014, because he felt that the FIFA president should no longer stand for re-election. When that happened, he put himself forward as a candidate. Eventually he withdrew. Later, after the forced departure of Michel Platini, he lost out to Aleksander Ceferin in the elections for the presidency of UEFA.
In the biography ‘Van Praag’ Willem Vissers describes the sometimes turbulent life of a real administrator, ‘one of the last of the Mohicans’, as he is somewhere called, dating from a time when chairmen were still unpaid figureheads of clubs. A book with countless memories of Ajax and the KNVB, as well as messages and complications from FIFA and UEFA.
→ Reading of Prague
More new this week!
We have already given you a nice selection from 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 Dit Week you will find everything that is new on Netflix, Film1, Videoland, Ziggo, Kobo Plus, Pathé Thuis and Spotify! Our Belgian readers can go to NieuwDezeWeek.be for the latest films and series on Netflix.
