Tag: Chemically Induced

Shotgun!: Up In Smoke

Bite-sized Big Shot Movie Club, no reading required! It’s a podcast! Episode 1: Julia & Sarah discuss the stoner classic Up In Smoke as part of Chemically Induced month. The inaugural episode!

Big Shot: More

[embedded content] There is a certain kind of movie (often 1960s independent cinema) full of beautiful faces, hip clothes, sweet soundtracks, and breathtaking vistas that shrug off any commitment to plot in favor of evoking a mood. When this works, it is so satisfying. 3 Women, L’Avventura,  Picnic at Hanging Rock – thousand mile stares...

BIG SHOT: Enter the Void

 At its heart, Enter The Void is incredibly stupid. Relentless flashing lights, glaring screens, and psychedelic Tokyo cliches abound. The protagonist Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) never reveals his face and often seems to be bordering on braindead, most of the time boringly obsessing over his sister Linda (Paz de la Huerta). At least she’s interesting...

Enter The Void: Handbook for the Recently Deceased

The Bardo Thotrol, or Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State – to the layman, The Tibetan Book of the Dead – offers Buddhist advice, instruction, and a plan to those who have died and are trying to navigate the 49 days between the moment of death and their rebirth as a new vessel. You...