Monthly Archives : October 2019

The Kasturi/Files: Episodes 15 & 16: Spec Chic Smackdown! The Covenant vs The Craft!


It’s the Ides of October! The very hinge of the month! Welcome to Days 15 and 16 of The Kasturi/Files here at Speculative Chic! It’s a double-episode Spook-tacular! A Spec Chic SMACKDOWN! Could we use more exclamation points? Yes!!!! We’re basically halfway through the month, and on a roll. To have some fun, we thought we’d revisit a couple of,…

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Trick-or-Treat! A Mixed Bag of Awful and Awesome


Happy October, Chicers! The air is crisp, everything is pumpkin-spice flavor, and my boots and sweaters are back in rotation. In other words, it’s decorative gourd season, mofos! (FYI, that article is a classic, but probably NSFW.) Not to mention, this awesome month comes with a prominent holiday: Columbus Day, where we celebrate the raping, plundering, and enslavement of… Wait. We…

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The Kasturi/Files: Mid-season Break


Much like the television shows we get sucked into on cable or network television, The Kasturi/Files is taking a mid-season break. Wait, what? That’s right, for Day 15, we’re allowing our awesome authors Gemma Files and Sandra Kasturi to recover from their Canadian Thanksgiving, and if all goes well, we’ll be back tomorrow with not just one, but two movies…

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The Kasturi/Files: Episode 14: The Gift of The Gift


It’s Thanksgiving Monday for the Canadians, and Day 14 for The Kasturi/Files here at Speculative Chic! Welcome back, and happy turkey day. We have just the thing for you to read now that you’re a bloated stupor and need a bit of a pick-me-up. What better than to argue about films, booze and books? Join us — Sandra Kasturi and…

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The Kasturi/Files: Episode Lucky 13: What Lies Beneath


It’s Lucky Day 13 for The Kasturi/Files here at Speculative Chic! If you’re new to this journey through horror movies for the month of October — welcome! And if you’ve been following us every day — welcome back! We bring you chitchat about our favorite (and sometimes not-so-favorite) dark and weird movies, and we throw you some book recs, and…

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The Kasturi/Files: Episode 12: The Sixth Sense & Sensibility


. . . or “I See Dead People and Should Maybe Not Have So Much Tequila” It’s Day 12 here at Speculative Chic for the Kasturi/Files as we wend our way through the burnt-leaf October days of this horror movie extravaganza of chitchat, film discussion, book recs, and cocktail recipes from Sandra Kasturi and Gemma Files!

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