Every week, Netflix expands the range with many new series and films. Withthis week: the musical Matilda the spy series Treason the spinoff TheWitcher: Blood Origin and more.
Series
The Witcher: Blood Origin (season 1)
It’s still a few months to wait for the third season of The Witcher , whichwill probably come sometime in the summer. Then Liam Hemsworth takes over thelead role from Henry Cavill. But before that happens, we can still enjoy thespin-off at the end of December The Witcher: Blood Origin. This story takesplace over a thousand years earlier and revolves around seven elves who cometogether to face a powerful enemy.
MI6 agent Adam Lawrence (Charlie Cox) has a high-ranking position in theBritish Secret Service and is unexpectedly promoted when his boss is poisoned.The perpetrator is the Russian spy Kara (Olga Kurylenko), an old acquaintanceof Adam who pressures him to pay a debt. He doesn’t want to cooperate, but inthe meantime his colleagues are starting to distrust him more and more.
Rise of Empires: Ottoman (season 2)
In Rise of Empires: Ottoman an important part of Turkish history isexamined. The Netflix Original follows Sultan Mehmet II (Cem Yigit Üzümoglu)during his conquests. Between the action scenes, historians tell more aboutthe underlying history. In this second season, he will face Vlad Dracula andwe will be taken into the battle between these two historical figures.
The Circle USA (starts season 5)
The fifth season of the game show The Circle USA faithfully follows thesuccess formula. Eight people all have their own room in the same apartmentcomplex. Mutual contact takes place via an online profile. But whether theyreally are who they say remains the question and that leads to surprisingmoments every season. In the fifth season, all contestants are single.
Movies
Roald Dahl ‘s Matilda: The Musical (2022)
Matilda: The Musical (photo) is not a remake of the 1996 book adaptation,but a film version of the popular musical based on Matilda by Roald Dahl.The beloved story is largely the same, only adding some catchy songs. Theyoung girl Matilda (Alisha Weir) does well at school, but is not appreciatedby her mean parents and the headmaster is also a true tyrant. When shediscovers she has telekinetic powers, she fights back.
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
This biographical film tells the story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey).Ron is an AIDS patient in the 1980s and is treated like a pariah after hisdiagnosis. Possible medicines are scarce or are not approved by the USregulator FDA. Ron decides to smuggle the drugs into Texas to help himself andothers.
Soof (Lies Visschedijk) is a bit fed up with her current life. Her cateringbusiness is not going well and her three children and husband Kasper (FedjaHuêt) take little account of her. Then Sophie meets choreographer Jim (DanKaraty) at a dinner party and the click quickly follows. It even goes so farthat Soof ends up in a conflict: is Jim her future or should she remain loyalto Kasper?
Afspelen knop
In this comedy drama film, the life of an American family is turned upsidedown by the threat of a major disaster. Professor Jack (Adam Driver), his wifeBabette (Greta Gerwig) and four children deal with all kinds of drasticchanges that make them start to think about the important themes in life.
The Promise of Pisa (2019)
Sam Zafar (Shahine El-Hamus) grows up in the Amsterdam neighborhood of De Pijpas the son of illiterate, poorly integrated Moroccan parents. His friends hangaround aimlessly on the street, his brother is involved in crime and hissisters work behind the cash register. Sam himself is keen to obtain his pre-university education diploma at the Hervormd Lyceum in Amsterdam’s Zuiddistrict and to further develop his passion for classical piano music.