December 17, 2018
They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with Speculative Chic contributor Venessa Giunta, whose debut novel, Jivaja, was…
December 6, 2018
For my 2018 Resolution Project, I decided to take a page out of Lane’s book and do my own Silver Screen Resolution (hence the Take Two part of the title). There are a lot of movies out there I haven’t seen but feel like I should have, or movies that I’ve simply wanted to see and have yet to get…
May 17, 2018
Imagine a world where making a sound will literally get you killed by creatures with hyper-sensitive hearing. That’s the synopsis of the film, A Quiet Place, the first surprise horror hit this year. Written and directed by John Krasinski, the movie centers on a family living in this new world. Krasinski and real-life wife, Emily Blunt, play the parents of…
April 5, 2017
Let me remind you of how it came to this. The Rules Recap: For 2017, I’ve resolved to see twelve new-to-me spec fic movies in a no-doubt vain attempt at catching up with popular culture. One movie per month, the results of watching said movie discussed at the beginning of the next month. And I made myself some rules. It…