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UPDATED: 15-Jun-2021: July sees Disney+, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV+ all bring some highly anticipated content to UK TV streaming but it's Disney that is flexing hard in the locker room with two Premier Access blockbuster movies.  

While it’s far from business as normal for everyone, cinemas around the world are starting to open their doors again and Marvel’s latest trailer reminds us all just what audiences have been missing.  

The second Marvel serial to come to Disney+, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier shows potential but little novelty in its first episode. UPDATED FOR THE COMPLETE SEASON  

Disney has rejigged the launches of a number of its high profile, upcoming movies resulting in changes for Black Widow and Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.  

Disney has announced that the series premiere of its second Marvel TV series, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has been its most watched season debut, beating both WandaVision and The Mandalorian.  

As expected, Disney confirms it has topped 100 million subscribers to its streaming service and also holds fast with Black Widow’s upcoming theatrical release.  

UPDATED 26-Mar-2021: Disney and Amazon are bringing a couple of big gun movie releases to their streaming services for March in the form of Raya and the Last Dragon and Coming 2 America.  

Updated 11-Feb-2021: A notable month for Disney+ UK sees the launch of the Hulu-esque Disney Star service on the streamer, opening up access to the more mature library of content that the House of Mouse is sitting on from the likes of 20th Century Studios, FX and ABC.  

Updated 12-Jan-2021: There’s a double header of new Marvel releases to get things rolling for Disney+ in 2021 with WandaVision the first of the promised shows with MCU characters making the switch to the small-screen, long-form storytelling.  

The success of this tremendous pre-Matrix superhero actioner basically kicked Marvel into high gear, with an effortlessly cool Wesley Snipes slicing and dicing with the edge of a blade, earning a superb native 4K release with one hell of a bass-laden Atmos track.  

Marvel's longest running TV property goes out with a bang, packing some superbly entertaining time-travel shenanigans into its 13-episode final run and signing off with some fitting, albeit bittersweet, closure.  

LG Display, has announced an innovation partnership with Walt Disney Studios’ StudioLAB to develop the use of cutting edge OLED displays in the content production process.  

It's the film that's pulling everyone back to the cinema! The film everyone's been waiting for! The most anticipated movie of the year!...What? Is something else out at the moment? Finally, The Not-So-New Mutants. A time capsule for teen stars of yesteryear.  

Disney Plus has proved an absolute hit for Walt’s media behemoth and since it’s initial rollout, subscribers have been flocking to view its precious horde of content (54 million and counting). However, just what has the streaming service got to offer in the way of new material for the coming month?  

The MCU's tiniest hero arrives in 4K, we take a look at the small film that is large in charm.  

Avengers meets Star Wars for some Indy-flavoured full-throttle sci-fi-western-fantasy hi-jinks in the vein of Whedon’s Serenity. Still one of the biggest surprises in the MCU pantheon, Guardians finally goes 4K.  

Disney Plus lands and we look at some of the highlights of this streaming service, which has actually opened at a fortuitous time for those in need of some escape from self-isolation.  

Disney’s new streaming service, Disney+, launches in many parts of Europe in a month’s time and signing up in advance will get UK customers a discount down to £49.99 for the annual subscription cost.  

Launch day subscribers to Disney’s streaming service hit 10 million and although that initial flurry has subsided, the company’s first earnings announcement since Disney+’s domestic rollout reports 26.5 million paid up members.  

We take a look forward at ten of the biggest movies that 2020 has to offer.  

One of the last couple of MCU titles to get a 4K upgrade, Marvel's Inception-like introduction to the multiverse is well worth a revisit.  

Far From Home blends breezy teen road trip with suitably diverting superhero hijinks, and looks great with 4K Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos.  

Rightly regarded as one of the weaker entries in the MCU, The Dark World still has plenty of off-world excitement, and gets a strong 4K upgrade with Atmos.  

As the first two Thor movies finally get released in 4K, we look back at the origins of the beloved character who gets a flawed 4K 'upgrade' but punchy Atmos.  

Far from perfect, Endgame is still a landmark event in cinematic history; an absolutely unmissable culmination of 22 films of world building, leaving its 4K UHD Blu-ray one of the must-have releases of the year.  

The first linchpin franchise within the grander MCU gets divisive but arguably definitive treatment in Iron Man 3, courtesy of writer/director Shane Black, and is finally given an official 4K pass from Disney.  

Iron Man's follow-up was marred by a director's compromised vision, offering glimpses of excellence in an otherwise bloated, studio-driven sequel, which finally gets a proper 4K release.  

Coming full-circle, the rockstar that kick-started the MCU finally earns itself a proper 4K release.  

As the afterglow of Endgame ebbs, Marvel has officially announced Phase 4 at Comic Con and it includes both their MCU and TV projects. Take a look in the thread to see what's coming and let members know what's got you 'hooked on a feeling.'  

Google Play adds a selection of 4K Disney movies including Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar favourites to its US store.  

Recent data shows a lack of awareness amongst UK viewers of the upcoming Disney+ streaming service. Something the House of Mouse will be keen to rectify.  

FX's hallucinogenic mind-warp of an X-Men spin-off, Legion, lands on Sky/NowTV for its third and final season.  

Whilst it might have possibly made for a better start to Phase 4 than an epilogue to Phase 3, Far From Home blends breezy teen road trip with suitably diverting superhero hijinks.  

Netflix's run of harder-edged Marvel TV shows comes to an end, but despite the added benefits of Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, can Jessica Jones send it out on a high?  

The last Fox X-Men movie may well involve a trainwreck, but thankfully it isn't one, at least not completely, although it does still undercook one of the best ever comic book storylines.  

Avengers: Endgame eclipses the records that Infinity War pocketed and topples box office records around the world.  

Avengers: Infinity War was a landmark event in film history, but can Endgame make good on the cataclysmic cliffhanger ending?  

Concluding our look at the Captain America trilogy in 4K we go all out in Civil War with a fitting and epic conclusion.  

The game-changing Winter Soldier is not only one of the all-time best Marvel entries, but also a superior conspiracy action-thriller which cleverly reworks Three Days of the Condor, and it looks AND sounds great on 4K Blu-ray.  

This Oscar-winning animation may well be a contender for the best Spider-Man film of all time, with a 4K Blu-ray release that does it justice.