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This section is where you will find Anime, Gaming and Film reviews from Calvin and the Anime Amigos.

Best and Worst Disney Oscars

Since I’ve been doing these countdowns to supplement my time away from cinema, Disney and the Oscars seem to have been two things that I’ve been constantly going back to. And, well, I didn’t have to really give my opinion

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Anime Amigos Podcast: Re Zero vs Rising of the Shield Hero

Re Zero vs Rising of the Shield Hero We compare the first seasons of our 2 favourite Issekai Anime. Calvin – Nerd Consultant   Share This Post:

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6 Reviews I Would Prefer To Redo

Look, I’ll be honest; I’m not perfect. But, most of the time, when I put out a review my opinion does not change on the film. However, for whatever reason there are a whole bunch of reviews that I look

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Which Streaming Service is Best?

Which Streaming Service is Best? I decided this week as I didn’t really have a film to review that I wanted to talk not necessarily about particular films but how we actually are now accessing those films. Now, this is

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Anime Amigos Podcast – Best of Winter 2021

Best of Winter 2021 We discuss our favourite Anime from the Fall 2019 season in another discussion Calvin – Nerd Consultant     0:00​​ our thoughts on the season 4:50​ our rant about Redo of a healer 11:14​​ our Best

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Godzilla vs. Kong – Review

“Godzilla vs. Kong” Well, thanks to Amazon Prime getting the rights to this one, I did manage to get to see this film just before cinemas reopened. And you know what? It was actually really good to see a new

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Monster Hunter Rise – Game Review

Monster Hunter Rise (Available for Nintendo Switch only) (PC Version coming out Next Year) For this review I’m joined by my colleague Reece who is a major Monster Hunter fan so my review will be coming from the perspective of

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Ranking the Highest Grossing Films of the 90s

Do you remember last year I did that list where I ranked the highest grossing films in the UK box office of the last decade and I said I’d go back and do more of them? Well, I decided I

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10 Obsucure PS2 Games That Deserve Your Attention

So I decided to try something a little different. Seeing as I don’t really have that many games to review in the near future, I figured I’d try writing other types of articles, lists, vs matches, maybe even some retro

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Bravely Default II – Game Review

Bravely Default II (Available for Nintendo Switch only) The sequel to the Squere-Enix 3DS franchise finally comes to home consoles after a pretty long gap by Nintendo published games standards having been revealed at the 2019 game awards and only

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4 Reasons Why Young Sherlock Holmes Does Not Deserve To Be Forgotten

I think I’ve made it obvious in the past that I really do like a good Sherlock Holmes story, and I was going to do a whole thing about all my different favourite Sherlock Holmes adaptations but I felt I

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Batman: Dying Is Easy – Review

“Batman: Dying Is Easy” I promised I’d talk about something positive this week and I intended to stick to that. And, well, everyone’s talking about the fact that this review will be coming out one week after the Snyder cut

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5 Reasons Why Southland Tales Is One Of The Worst Movies Ever Made

I know I’ve been negative the last couple of weeks but this is a list I really wanted to make since the start of lockdown. And considering that I could be about to go back to the cinema, I might

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Persona 5 Strikers – Game Review

Persona 5 Strikers (Available for PlayStation4, Nintendo Switch and PC ) (PlayStation 4 version played on a PlayStation 5 used for Calvin’s review) (PC version used for Elliot’s review) Persona 5 Strikers is the second spin off title from the

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4 of The Worst Plot Twists in Movie History

I watched a video on YouTube by the group Overly Sarcastic Productions where they talked about plot twists. I actually mentioned it in last week’s post about why the plot twists in the Saw movies work when I mentioned some

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Little Nightmares 2 – Game Review

Little Nightmares 2 (Available for PlayStation4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC ) (PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S versions due out at a later date) (PC version used for review) Little Nightmares 2 is the sequel to Indie Horror

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5 Reasons Why The Saw Movies Are Better Than You Think They Are – Review

I’ve always said one of my guilty pleasures is the Saw franchise; I don’t entirely know what it is but I really like those films. The first time I watched them was on DVD, and I watched the entire series

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Anime Amigos podcast: our favourite Anime + we play anime mastermind

Our Favourite Anime + We Play Anime Mastermind We talk about our favourite Anime and decide who gets the wildcard for this years anime of the year by quizing each other on our special subject   Calvin – Nerd Consultant

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