Best-bets for Jan. 21: cartoons, football and lots of detectives
1) “Encanto” (2021), 8 p.m., Disney Channel, or “Soul” (2020), 9 p.m., ABC. These films have much in common. Each streamed at Christmas, rippling with music and ethnic flavor; each won the Oscar for best animated picture. But “Soul” (with a jazzy sound) hit the pandemic and skipped theaters in the U.S.; “Encanto” (shown here), with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Latino sound, had better luck a year later. Read more…