New this week on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Videoland, Disney+ and Spotify (week 1)
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.
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Netflix
DOTA: Dragon’s Blood
A troubled but brave Dragon Knight must use his dragon power to stop a deadly demon in this epic fantasy story based on the online game.
→ DOTA: Watch Dragon’s Blood
Mother/Android
“We are all programmed to survive.” When their homeland becomes entangled in a war over artificial intelligence, Georgia tries to flee the conflict with her boyfriend Sam. The couple hopes to find a safe home, especially now in the last days before she gives birth. The two end up at the fortress of the rebellious androids.
→ Watch Mother/Android
The Club (S02)
In cosmopolitan 1950s Istanbul, a mother with a past works in a nightclub to help her rebellious daughter she was unable to raise.
→ Watch The Club
Amazon Prime Video
The Tender Bar
The Tender Bar tells the story of JR (Sheridan), a fatherless boy who grows up in the shadow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie (Affleck), is the sharpest and most colorful of a whole host of quirky and demonstrative father figures. The boy’s determined mother (Rabe) struggles to provide her son with opportunities that have been denied her. She wants to leave the dilapidated house of her father (Christopher Lloyd). In the meantime, JR begins to pursue his romantic and professional dreams with courage, if not always gracefully. The Tender Bar is based on JR Moehringer’s bestselling memoir of the same name.
→ Watch The Tender Bar
South Park (S23)
This satirical sitcom in which trends, celebrities and politicians are razed to the ground looks at the world through the eyes of four foul-mouthed children.
→ Watch South Park
Disney+
Big Sky (S02E01)
Private detectives Cassie Dewell and Cody Hoyt join forces with Cody’s estranged wife, Jenny Hoyt, who used to be a police officer. Together, they search for two sisters who were kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. They find out that several girls have disappeared in this area and it becomes a race against time to stop the killer.
→ Watch Big Sky
Ziggo
The Farewell
Chinese-American Billi returns to China to see her terminally ill grandmother one last time. However, the cancer diagnosis is hidden from the matriarch by the family.
→ Watch The Farewell
Pathé Home
American Siege
Sheriff Ben knows all the ins and outs of Fitzgerald, a quiet town in the south of the US state of Georgia. When the distinguished doctor John is taken hostage, it is therefore up to Watts to resolve the situation.
→ Watch American Siege
storytel
Why don’t selfies look like me?
Why don’t my selfies look like me? Does a neighborhood app really make the neighborhood safer? Is Mark Zuckerberg Secretly a Communist? If the product is free, am I the product? Rens van der Vorst answers important technological questions in part 1 of the series Relevant questions about new technology. Because, more than ever, we live in a world full of digital technology. Video meetings. selfies. Big Data. Social media. emoji. Netflix. Smart Barbies. Bitcoins. Artificial intelligence. Biotechnology. algorithms. Spotify. smart phones. Self-driving cars. dick pics. robots.
And that’s just a not entirely random selection. Relevant questions about new technology are hilarious, sometimes blunt, sometimes nuanced, sometimes absurd, sometimes confrontational, but always full of new insights about the role of technology in our lives.
→ Why are selfies not like me? listen
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.
