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

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

Posted in Anime and Gaming

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

Posted in Game Reviews

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

Posted in Game Reviews

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

Posted in Anime and Gaming

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

Posted in Anime and Gaming

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

Posted in Game Reviews

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

Posted in Anime and Gaming

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

Posted in Anime and Gaming

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

Posted in Anime Amigos Vlog

5 Reasons Why The Resident Evil Films Are Worse Than You Think

5 Reasons Why The Resident Evil Films Are Worse Than You Think So, the Resident Evil film franchise is actually getting a reboot, and I think it’s important at this point to really examine why those films failed so astronomically,

Posted in Anime and Gaming

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury – Game Review

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury (Available for Nintendo Switch only) As part of the Mario 35th Anniversary Nintendo announced that they wold be bringing the Wii U game Super Mario 3D World to the Switch making it one

Posted in Game Reviews

Destruction AllStars – Game Review

Destruction All-Stars (Available for PlayStation 5 only) The PlayStation 5 launch has not been a total success with the issue of shortened supply due to scalpers and while it has launched with a few great games as well as some

Posted in Game Reviews

5 Films That Didn’t Deserve To Bomb At The Box Office

It’s a sad fact of life that any franchise or your hopes in getting a passion project off the ground can be really stifled if you don’t make money at the box office or if you don’t convince people to

Posted in Anime and Gaming

The Medium – Game Review

The Medium If you take a look at the line up of exclusives for the Xbox Series X during its first year of release, I’m sure that you’ll agree – especially when compared to the Playstation 5’s – that there’s

Posted in Game Reviews

3 Excellent Modern Trilogies – Review

When we talk about those great trilogies of films, we tend to go back at least 10-15 years—you think of film series like the original Star Wars trilogy, the Indiana Jones trilogy, The Lord of The Rings. But, in my

Posted in Anime and Gaming

Hitman 3 (2021) – Game Review

Hitman 3 (2021) (Available for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Google Stadia and PC) (Nintendo Switch version is a Cloud version and requires a constant internet connection to play) (Xbox Series X|S version used

Posted in Game Reviews
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