Sundance Selects, via Apple, have released the official trailer for Kaboom. Directed by Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin), Kaboom stars Thomas Dekker (My Sister’s Keeper), Juno Temple (Greenberg), Haley Bennett (Marley & Me), Chris Zylka (My Super Psycho Sweet 16), Roxane Mesquida (Rubber). Tells the story of Smith (Dekker), an ambisexual 18-year-old college freshman who stumbles [...]
New Kaboom Poster is Full of Stars
January 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Gregg Araki’s new movie has a poster to match its name, and should convince some of the eager Sundancers to catch it when it plays the festival shortly. We saw Kaboom in Cannes last year where the film was awarded the first Queer Palm, although we weren’t able to see it a few months later [...]
Another Cast Members Joins Spiderman Reboot
December 13, 2010 By 1 Comment
The Spiderman reboot cast as coming together on a daily basis it would seem, and now another name has been added to the mix. Newcomer Chris Zylka has been cast in the role of high school jock and Peter Parker’s arch-rival, Flash Thompson. The character was only given a short screen time in Sam Raimi’s [...]
HeyUGuys at Cannes 2010: KABOOM Review
May 15, 2010 By 1 Comment
Going into the festival there were a select few films that I had earmarked as definites for viewing: Wall Street 2 was top of the list, and closely following it was Gregg Araki’s Kaboom, a delightfully intriguing prospect for anyone familiar with Araki’s body of work. Araki is one of those indie-darling, festival veterans who [...]
