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Due to the rise of streaming services and the convenience they afford us for accessing high quality media, the poor old Blu Ray has gone into something of a decline over the last few years.  One great side effect of that is that they are now incredibly cheap and can be picked up for next to nothing.  I recently did just that, and The Butler was one of a dozen or so movies that I acquired. I had never actually heard of the film before, which is surprising, but I decided to take the extremely small risk of spending 50p on it as it sounded interesting.  What I discovered was a fascinating tale about a man who served eight different American presidents through their terms in the White House. The Butler is based on a true story, though it is a fictionalised version of events so certain things may have been exaggerated for dramatic effect.  As the film begins the main character Cecil Gaines (brilliantly played by Forest Whitaker) is just a boy, living and working in a cotton plantation for

Welcome back to part three of my 2020 gaming list! Bravely Default II for the Nintendo Switch. While I find it very peculiar that Square Enix have chosen to ignore the fact that they already released a perfectly decent sequel to Bravely Default, called Bravely Second, I do welcome the idea of more games set in that world and with those characters.  If you're not familiar with the Bravely Default series, they are basically a call back to the earliest Final Fantasy games - turn based combat, a robust class system and gorgeous hand painted backgrounds are all staples of the series.  There are some nice modern touches as well though, such as the ability to speed up random battles so they go by four times as fast, or you can also decide to turn them off altogether. Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3 for the Nintendo Switch. I have thoroughly enjoyed both of the previous entries in this indie series, where you take control of a busy kitchen and via a series of different mini games, attempt

The Personal History of David Copperfield is the latest project from writer and director Armando Ianucci, who has worked on other such hilarious movies and TV shows like Death of Stalin, The Thick of It and Veep. It is of course a brand new adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens story, a story that is no stranger to being constantly told and retold over the years.  Dickens stories have always had an element of humour and the absurd about them, even as characters find themselves beset by poverty and misery at every turn.  This version is no exception. The basic outline of the plot is that an older and wiser David Copperfield has written a play based on the many places and people from his eventful life and is now presenting them to an audience for the first time.  The film begins on the stage, but as Dev Patel as Copperfield starts to narrate what's going on, the film transitions into flashback scenes depicting what happened. The film charts his life from a young boy living happ

It's time for part two of my 2020 gaming list, so let's get on with it! Doom Eternal for the Xbox One. The modern Doom reboot from a few years ago is getting a sequel, which is due out in March.  Journalists recently got to play the finished game for three hours, and it's looking pretty good.  The same fast paced, visceral combat from the first game returns, combined with new platforming sections and abilities for Doomguy.  Of all the games in this list this is actually one of the games I'm looking forward to the least, so I may not rush out to get it on release day.  I will pick it up eventually though. Persona 5: Royal for the PlayStation 4. This is a revamped and expanded version of Persona 5, much like Persona 4: Golden on the Vita.  It adds more story, more characters and more dungeons to the existing campaign, which was already over 100 hours long! I never actually got around to completing the original version of the game, so this is a good opportunity to fi

Jupiter Ascending is a bit of an older film compared to those that I've reviewed so far, but on the Nimble Entertainment Review Depot, anything goes.  I don't want to limit myself by just covering the latest releases, so here we are.  I've always thought that this film looked pretty cool from the trailers and the little bits and pieces of it that I have seen over the years, but terrible reviews both from the critics and the general public have put me off from seeing it.  At the weekend I picked up a handful of cheap Blu Ray's, and this was amongst them.  Not expecting much at all, I sat down to watch the film last night, and I ended up really enjoying myself. First of all, Jupiter Ascending looks fantastic in multiple ways - the design of the world, the special effects work, the choreography of the action sequences, and the attractive main leads. This film really pops in HD, though I have just got the regular Blu Ray version.  Out of interest I did check and see if th

No gaming review for you this week - I haven't managed to finish anything lately or spend much time with retro games, so I'm not really ready to share my opinions on anything.  I am more than half way through Yakuza 3, part of the way into God of War and Watch Dogs 2, and I just started playing through Simon the Sorcerer yesterday.  In the meantime I'm going to share with you my list of games that I'm looking forward to this year.  If this gets too long then there will be a second part.  I'm also going to do the same thing for movies and TV so watch out for those articles if you're interested. Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore for the Nintendo Switch. I have just received my copy of this but I have yet to put it in my Switch and start playing.  This used to be a Wii U exclusive, one of the few that were left to be ported to another console, but now it's here and can be played portably, which is fantastic.  It's a JRPG which takes bits of the Shin Megam