February 13, 2020
I’m a huge Stephen King nerd. I mean, I don’t have a map of his multiverse on my wall or anything, but I own hardback copies of most of his books, have read almost everything he’s ever published (still missing a bunch of very early short stories though), and have watched just about every King property that’s been produced for…
December 17, 2019
When I originally watched IT: Chapter One in theaters, I had some mixed reactions. Yet, in the intervening years, IT became something resembling a favorite. So I was a little wary when friends of mine saw IT: Chapter Two on opening weekend and gave it a shrug as a review, with the added explanation of, “It was long.” Given their…
May 11, 2018
Last month, we talked about our favorite superheroes. Everybody loves a hero, no? We covered a healthy spectrum, from the traditional (Spider-Man!) to the unexpected (Super-Administrator!), and had a lot of fun with it. So, naturally, I thought that we could flip the coin and take a look at the more complicated members of the fictional world. The villains are…
April 12, 2018
I have been a Stephen King fan since I was an angsty 14-year-old who didn’t want to go on a vacation with my mom, brother, sister, and new stepdad. The room I was in of the cabin we’d rented had a bookshelf. On that bookshelf was a ridiculously thick book. On the spine, the words: The Stand. I spent every…
December 28, 2017
You know what the trouble is when you look forward to something? Inevitably, it just might let you down, and then something you could’ve shrugged off otherwise becomes a bitter disappointment. So while we at Speculative Chic love celebrating our favorites (seriously, have you been reading our My Favorite Things column?), we also think it’s important to talk about those…
September 12, 2017
Welcome back to Sound Off!, a semi-regular column where members of Speculative Chic gather together to chat about the latest BIG THING in entertainment. This time, face your fears and discuss IT, which premiered in the United States on Friday, September 8, 2017. Sound Off! is meant to be a reaction, but not necessarily a review. After all, while we are all…
May 29, 2017
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, a weekly column where we gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we bring you the second season of one of our favorite speculative shows, a trailer for a thrilling new horror…