JJ Perkins

JJ Perkins is a Film Studies major at Texas Christian University. A movie fan since he began marathoning John Wayne films as a kid, JJ spends any spare time he has devouring new and interesting movies on Netflix and VOD. His favorite films are "The Quiet Man," "The Blues Brothers," "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," and "Drive."

Review: “Maleficent”

In sports, there is nothing as singularly saddening as watching a fiery and determined star athlete try to singlehandedly save a game—or a season—from the failings of the lackluster team around them. Kobe Bryant puts up 40-point games almost just to spite the mediocrity he has recently been forced to deal with; Tom Brady throws …

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Everything you need to know about the R-rated version of “Anchorman 2”

With the re-release of “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” in a new “Super-Sized R-Rated Version” complete with “763 new jokes,” we at Critic Speak thought it would be appropriate to interview one of the film’s cast members and have them convince us why we should spend our hard-earned money to go see a film we …

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Review: “The Lego Movie”

Can an advertisement be entertainment, or even classified as art? Consumers are likely to find ads of any form or length to be somewhere between innocuous and deserving of extreme cynicism, save for those precious television commercials that are interrupted by some dumb championship football game. It is widely believed that in an ideal world, …

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The Hunt is now streaming on Netflix.

Streaming Pick: “The Hunt”

Mads Mikkelsen has made a career out of playing monsters. His two most prominent roles (especially to American audiences), the “Casino Royale” villain Le Chiffre and the titular character on NBC’s “Hannibal,” have offered Mikkelsen opportunities to play all sides of the sick and the ruthless. As Le Chiffre, Mikkelsen was presented with an opportunity …

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Streaming Pick: “Dredd” (2012)

Contemporary mainstream action cinema is hurting. From the redundant stunt-casting of “The Expendables” franchise to the thirty-years-too-late Cold War thriller-aping antics of “Salt,” the genre has succumbed to the run-of-the-mill. But “Dredd” exists in direct opposition to this string of mediocrity. While there are other exceptions to the rule like “The Raid” (which bears more …

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