John's Lair

 I think I speak for everyone when I say that 2023 was not a good year for the house of mouse. Especially considering that was their big 100 year anniversary. Aside from "Elemental" and "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3", volume three almost all of their movies, have flopped at the box office. Quite possibly the most humiliating failure was Disney Animations "Wish", which was supposed to be celebrating a century of storytelling. Unfortunately it got trashed by critics, got a mixed response from fans, and it grossed $243 million on a $200 million budget. After a string of failures, a lot of people have been wondering how Disney Animation can bounce back from this. Well they got their answer on February 7th, as the studio announced their newest feature to be released in November, which, as it turns out is a sequel to "Moana". Now this caught everyone off guard, including yours truly. While I am looking forward to seeing how this turns out, I have som

 Well folks I finally saw “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and I loved it! With both this and “Spider-Man No Way Home”, Marvel is going all in on the multiverse saga. But since this is yet another discussion about variants in the MCU, let’s discuss how this all can affect a character we’ve discussed here twice before: King T’Challa a.k.a. The Black Panther.  Now before I go on let me make a disclaimer: This blog post will contain heavy spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. So if you have not seen the film, turn away now. You have been warned. With that out of the way let’s begin. Earth 838 In MOM, Doctor Strange and America Chavez are on the run from the Scarlet Witch (aka Wanda Maximoff), and end up in an alternate earth where’s Stephens variant died in the line of duty. We later find out from a variant of Christine that they are in earth 838, while Stephen is from earth 616. Not only that but we also see the Illuminati, consisting of variants of Baron

  With Paramount wanting to turn the Sonic film franchise into a cinematic universe, there is a huge plethora of storytelling possibilities as Sonic has 30 years worth of content and storylines to pull from be it from games, comics, or cartoons. But one thing I’m curious about is what kind of bad guys we could see in these films and streaming shows. Sure we have Eggman, who is the main villain, but Sonic has amassed a colorful rogues gallery across various mediums. With that said I’m going to share with you all which bad guys I think could do the best to give us their worst in the Sonic cinematic universe.  7. Chaos Starting things off, we have the water deity that debuted in 1998’s Sonic Adventure, Chaos. For those of you who don’t know Chaos is a mutated Chao that guarded the master emerald and the Chao that lived around it thousands of years ago. But everything changed when the war hungry ancestors of Knuckles stormed the master emerald shrine in order to use its powers for nefariou

 So earlier last month, Paramount dropped the bombshell that not only is a third movie in the works but there’s also a live action Knuckles series that’ll be exclusive to Paramount plus with Idris Elba reprising his role. And keep in mind this is all before the second movie is even out in theaters at the time that I’m writing this, which should speak volumes about how much confidence paramount has in this franchise. Needless to say it’s a very exciting time to be a Sonic fan.  But with the future ahead of us in terms of films I just couldn’t help but wonder about other characters in the franchise such as Amy or Shadow and who Paramount could get to play them. Well today I’m going to share with y’all who I would personally recruit to play the rest of Sonic’s friends should they make it to the big screen. Now for this I’m going to have two categories: Returning voice actors and celebrities. With Tails’ voice actress from the games playing him in the films, that tells me right there that

 The new year is here, and what better way to start off then to talk about superheroes. As a follow up to my blog post about one superhero in particular, Black Panther, let’s talk about how they can specifically bring a variant of him to the main universe. Now as you all know, I’m proudly pro-recast when it comes to T’Challas future in the MCU and since my blog post last year Chadwick Boseman’s brother, Derrick Boseman has come out and said that he would’ve wanted the role of T’Challa to be recast since T’Challa is too important of a positive role model for Black children (especially Black boys) to shelve forever. Not only that but as I am writing this, the Recast T’Challa movement has gained some steam and the petition started by Chicago film critic Emmanuel “E-Man” Noisette has amassed an impressive 54K signatures . Which bring us to today. I said last year that Marvel recasting via variant would probably be the best way to continue to use the character. But now we’re gonna focus on

 On August 28th, 2020, I was heartbroken to learn of the untimely passing of Chadwick Boseman from a years long battle with colon cancer along with millions of fans worldwide. Four months later, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige confirmed that the role of King T'Challa, who was portrayed by Boseman in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, would not be recast. This also made me sad because now this characters story, which Boseman worked so hard to bring to life while battling cancer, was effectively getting cut short before his potential was truly realized. And while Marvel fans around the world are wondering how the Black Panther franchise will continue on without its leading man, there is also a group of fans that still want to go on more big screen adventures with the King of Wakanda while also honoring Boseman's contributions to the role. Earlier this year, a petition was started by Chicago film critic Emmanuel Noisette (who runs a channel known as E-Mans Movie Reviews) to try a