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Seasons Greetings from December Bombshell, Mai I Cosplay

Critical Blast Staff · December 1, 2019

Every month the staff at Critical Blast combs the cosplay community for up and coming cosplayers who deserve to have a broader audience for their work, taking into account not only costuming skills and spirit, but also how they use that ability in service to others.

Gift Guide for Geeks, Gamers, and Gallifreyans

Critical Blast Staff · November 27, 2019

So the turkey is thawing (in the fridge, of course; you don't want to spend the holidays with salmonella), the family is coming together, and the Christmas cards are all written out and ready to be mailed. And it's now that you realize... you have to start Christmas shopping.

Official Secrets Compelling Window into Iraq War Run-Up

RJ Carter · November 26, 2019

The events of OFFICIAL SECRETS are true, and that's what makes the film so magnetic. It's not overblown with explosions, high-speed chases, or tense confrontations. It's a sequence of human decisions, facts, denials, and consequences.

Nora Fries Finally Free, and Ready to Be a Villain

RJ Carter · November 24, 2019

Of all the DC Universe events to actually start crossing over into the regular titles, it had to be the unfollowably tendrilous merger of DARK NIGHTS: METAL and whatever it is going on in Justice League that involving Lex Luthor becoming "Apex Lex," both of which converge to cause the "Year of the Villain" theme.

Blinded by the Light of Bruce Springsteen

RJ Carter · November 22, 2019

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT is a coming of age tale set in a small town in Britain. Javed (VIVEIK KAIRA) is a British young man of Pakistani descent. His father and mother (KUVLINDER GHIR, MEERA GANATRA) both emigrated from Pakistan for a better life.

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE Makes For A Wonderful Live Radio Drama

Jeff Ritter · November 21, 2019

Legendary move director Frank Capra was probably only ever completely surprised twice in his life, and both times for the same film. Arguably his best known work today, It’s a Wonderful Life was not a great box office hit when it opened in 1946.