If you don’t know the name John Van Deusen, perhaps you remember the indie band The Lonely Forest that he fronted from 2005-2014. Based in Anacortes, Washington, lead singer and main songwriter, Van Deusen and company released two EP’s, and four full-length indie/rock albums to modest critical acclaim. If this is your introduction to his work, welcome. Venturing out as a solo artist, he meticulously planned four albums titled I Am Origami, with part one releasing in 2017, and part two dropping the following year, in what was this reviewer's runaway favorite album of 2018...

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Until actor/director Jon Favreau reimagined The Jungle Book as a live action film for theaters in 2016, the thought of making a live action version of The Lion King might have seemed ludicrous at best. However, the term "live action" here is quite loose, as rumor has it Favreau said only one scene in the film contains live action footage. This means that the rest of 2019's The Lion King is computer generated animation. So this continues to inspire the question: "Why?" (Well, besides big box office returns) and "Do we really need it?"...

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With 22 films culminating into something as monumental as Avengers: Endgame, it may leave fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) wondering: what's next? Spider-Man: Far From Home is the first film to follow Endgame, and serves as a sort of epilogue to the events from that film. If you were left with a world of questions regarding what life after Endgame might look for people living in this world, Far From Home does an impressive job taking the baton and continuing the race...

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