May 10, 2018
This month, we’re doing the second part of the monster Stephen King adaptation news! If you missed the post about upcoming King movies, you should go read! The television adaptation list isn’t quite as long, but stay with it. There are some interesting things at the end! Let’s jump right in.
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…
August 8, 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, aim with your eye and discuss The Dark Tower, which premiered in the United States on Friday, August 4, 2017. Sound Off! is meant to be a reaction, but not necessarily a review. After all, while we…
June 8, 2017
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. ~~ Stephen King; The Gunslinger I’m a little bit of a Stephen King nerd. I admit it. I’m not hyper-crazy or anything (nevermind that I used to write letters to him that I never sent, telling him about my writing). But I do love most of his work.…
May 10, 2017
After having such a difficult time getting through the first volume of Stephen King’s epic Dark Tower series, I had some trepidation towards volume two, The Drawing of the Three. I am pleased to report that this volume of the series goes down much easier than volume one. The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987) Written by:…
February 7, 2017
It seemed like a good idea at the time. I wanted very badly to use this sentence as a subtitle to my review. Not because I doubt my commitment to the goal of reading the Dark Tower novels and writing about them, but because this one sentence, from the introduction to my copy of The Gunslinger (the Scribner 2016 paperback),…
January 11, 2017
Stephen King is a man who needs no introduction from someone as lowly as me. Everybody’s heard of him. Almost everybody’s read his work or watched a movie based on one of his many, many novels or short stories. I cannot claim to have read all of his work (nowhere close at this point), but I have read my fair…