October 8, 2019
Welcome back to The Kasturi/Files at Speculative Chic, Day 8 of our October horror show of movies, books, and cocktails! We’re covering a couple of older movies today, so if you haven’t seen these yet, well, we guess there are spoilers? But, come on. There has to be a “best before” date. Like if the movie came out twenty years…
October 7, 2019
Welcome back to The Kasturi/Files at Speculative Chic! It’s Day 7 of our horror movie month-long romp through our favorite eerie films. Today we conclude our tour of Scandinavia with the Norwegian film, Trollhunter! SPOILERS, spoilers, we got yer spoilers right here!
October 6, 2019
Hello Spec Chic fans! Welcome to Day 6 of our horror movie dissection! Now that you’re back from church, let’s discuss some wacky Scandinavian pagans (again). Here we go again with The Kasturi/Files, featuring the song stylings of Sandra Kasturi and Gemma Files! Oh, and, er, SPOILERS AHEAD.
October 5, 2019
Day 5 of our whirlwind horror movie tour here at Speculative Chic! More chitchat, film discussion, book recs, and cocktail ideas from Sandra Kasturi and Gemma Files! Welcome back to The Kasturi/Files!
October 4, 2019
Day 4 of our ongoing October horror movie series here at Speculative Chic — and it’s time to enter werewolf country. (Where wolf? There wolf! Sorry. We may veer into Young Frankenstein territory later this month.) More chitchat, film discussion, book recs, and cocktail ideas from Sandra Kasturi and Gemma Files! Welcome to The Kasturi/Files!
October 4, 2019
I am so excited! This year, for my resolution project, I’m rewatching the Star Wars franchise. I chose it because I love Star Wars, and I thought it would be fun to re-watch the movies in order of release date, with perhaps a bit more of a critical and appreciative eye than I have before. This month’s installment: Rogue One: A…
October 3, 2019
It’s Day 3 of our horror movie series of The Kasturi/Files on Speculative Chic, with commentary, arguments, and cocktail recommendations from Sandra Kasturi and Gemma Files! Shockingly, we’re talking about a really recent film today! To which we should add: SPOILERS AHEAD.
October 2, 2019
Welcome to Day 2 of our horror movie series, The Kasturi/Files, on Speculative Chic, with commentary, arguments, and cocktail recommendations from Sandra Kasturi and Gemma Files!
October 1, 2019
Welcome to our favorite month and the High Unholy Days of October (as our friend and author Rebecca Senese calls them)! And welcome to the “Kasturi/Files Episodes” — 31 days of movies and mayhem here on Speculative Chic. As lovers of the frightening, the weird, the outré, the bizarre, we’re going to celebrate this delightfully spooky month by watching horror…
September 25, 2019
One of the most common questions authors face is a deceptively difficult one to answer: “Where do you get your ideas?” Yet, the answers to that common question can be almost as interesting as the resulting story. Welcome to You’re My Inspiration, a new column dedicated to discovering what inspires a particular author and their work. Whether it be a…