Disney + culture news: films, series, Marvel programs not to be missed in January 2021

Culture news Disney +: Marvel movies, series, programs not to be missed in January 2021

Touch

Created by Carol Barbee and Tim Kring, the series Touch enters Disney + with the broadcast of all existing episodes. We find there Kiefer Sutherland (Forsaken: Back to Fowler City, Where Is Kyra?), David Mazouz (Gotham, Day by Day), Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Miss Revolution, Summerland) and Danny glover (the Lethal Weapon saga, Jumanji: Next Level). The Touch series invites us to follow Martin Bohm, a widower and single father overwhelmed by his inability to communicate with Jake, his 12-year-old son, autistic and dumb. Everything changes the day he discovers that he is a little genius, who sees what no one else notices and who is able to connect two events that seem a priori to have nothing in common. The father and son then meet Amélia, a 14-year-old girl who connects the events of the present and the future thanks to a series of numbers that Jake also knows. These two teenagers have extraordinary gifts, identical to those of 34 other people. Aster, a neuro-tech company, is trying to capture as many of these outsized people as possible in order to harness this digital suite that predicts the future. Martin must then fight against the firm Aster.

• Available January 5 on Disney +

the Revenant

the Revenant is a film by Alejandro González Iñárritu with featured Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street, Don’t Look Up: Cosmic Denial) which gives the reply to Tom hardy (Venom, Spider-Man: No Way Home), Domhnall gleeson (the Harry Potter saga, Star Wars episode IX), Will poulter (Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, The Labyrinth). The action takes place in a wild America, we follow the trapper Hugh Glass (Léonardo Di Caprio) who is attacked by a bear and seriously injured. Abandoned by his group, he is left for dead. But Glass driven by his will to live and carried by the love he has for his wife and their son, he sets out on a journey of more than 300 km in a hostile environment, on the trail of the man who betrayed. His thirst for revenge will turn into a struggle to overcome all obstacles, return home and find redemption.

• Available January 14 on Disney +

Marvel Studios Gathering: The Making-Of of Hawkeye

New exclusive series launched on Disney + last November, Hawkeye presents this time behind the scenes of his filming with the documentary Marvel Studios Gathering: The Making-Of of Hawkeye. The series takes us to New York City, where former Avenger Clint Barton has a mission that seems simple, since it is to return to his family for Christmas. But Clint and Kate Bishop, a 22-year-old archer who dreams of becoming a superheroine, are forced to team up when a threat emerges from the past. In the cast of the 6 episodes of this series are Jeremy renner who is reprising his role as Clint Barton / Hawkeye (Mission Impossible, Rogue Nation) and Hailee Steinfeld who embodies Kate Bishop (Pitch Perfect 1 and 2). Vera Farmiga, Fra Fee, Tony Dalton, Zahn McClarnon, Brian d’Arcy James and Alaqua cox (Maya Lopez) also shines in this series directed by Rhys thomas, while the duo Bert and Bertie (Troop Zero) is in the works.

• Available January 19 on Disney +

Queens

This 13-episode Disney Star series invites us to follow four forties, hip-hop legends of the 90s, forgotten and separated. Those who were then called the Nasty Bitches and who had made themselves known thanks to their title Nasty Girl, meet again to try to find their past celebrity. Too ambitious a goal? Co-produced by Zahir McGhee (Stumptown), Sabrina wind (Desperate Housewives) and Tim Story (Night Wolf), Queens stages Eve (Jack Boyz) as Brianna aka Professor Sex, Naturi naughton (Fame) in that of Jill aka Da Thrill, Nadine velazquez (Flight) who plays Valeria alias Butter Pecan, Taylor Selé (Marvel’s Luke Cage “) as Eric Jones, Pepi sonuga (Famous in Love) in that of Lil Muffin and finally Brandy (The Legend of Cinderella) which plays Naomi aka Xplicit Lyrics. The soundtrack of Queens has the distinction of having been composed by the actresses themselves.

• Available January 19 on Disney +

Marvel’s Hit-Monkey

Marvel’s Hit-Monkey is one of the programs that will accompany this start of the year on Disney +. Hit Monkey follows in the footsteps of Modok and What If …? by addressing animation enthusiasts. We follow the adventures of a Japanese snow monkey in search of revenge. With the help of the ghost of an American assassin, he embarks on a settling of scores within the Tokyo underworld. Very skilled in the handling of many weapons and in the martial arts, his skills and his achievements quickly earned him the nickname of the “killer of killers”. Originally appearing in a one-time digital comic in April 2010, Hit Monkey was created by Daniel Way and illustrated by Dalibor Talajić, a Croatian artist. The character is linked to the universe of Deadpool, the anti-hero present in the world of Marvel Comics.

• Available January 26 on Disney +

Other programs to follow

• Big Sky – season 2 (January 5 on on Disney +)
• Spider Man – season 3 (January 5 on on Disney +)
• Thirteen (January 7 on on Disney +)
• MASH (January 7 on on Disney +)
• The Flingueuses (January 7 on on Disney +)
• Jessica’s temptation (January 7 on on Disney +)
• Do not tell anyone (January 7 on on Disney +)
• Firefly (January 12 on on Disney +)
• The Mick – complete (January 12 on on Disney +)
• Journey to the End of Hell – Seasons 3 and 8 (January 12 on on Disney +)
• Gang travel (January 12 on on Disney +)
• The Real Queens of Hip-Hop: The Women Who (January 14 on on Disney +)
• Changed the Game (January 14 on on Disney +)
• The Big Short: The Heist of the Century (January 14 on on Disney +)
• Birdman or (the surprising virtue of ignorance) (January 14 on on Disney +)
• The First Wave (January 14 on on Disney +)
• Malcolm – season 6 and 7 (January 19 on on Disney +)
• Bob’s Burgers – season 12 (January 19 on on Disney +)
• Soul of a Nation (January 19 on on Disney +)
• The grand tour of Switzerland (January 19 on on Disney +)
• Glass (January 21 on on Disney +)
• Unbreakable (January 21 on on Disney +)
• The incredible journey of Polar Kid (January 21 on on Disney +)
• Insania (January 26 on on Disney +)
• New York Police Blues – unabridged (January 26 on on Disney +)
• Filthy Rich (January 26 on on Disney +)
• Drugs, Inc – season 3 (January 26 on on Disney +)
• The Hate U Give (January 28 on on Disney +)