UK Poster for Gregg Akari’s Kaboom

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Artificial Eye have released the official UK poster for Kaboom. Directed by Gregg Akari (Mysterious Skin), Kaboom stars Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka, Juno Temple, Roxane Mesquida, Andy Fischer-Price, Jason Olive, Nicole LaLiberte and James Duval. Smith’s everyday life in the dorm – hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, [...]

Kaboom Trailer

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

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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

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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 [...]

FrightFest 2010 Full Line Up Announced

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FrightFest 2010 infects the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square between the 26th and 30th of August and HeyUGuys will be there to bring you all the news and reviews. Festival tickets go on sale tomorrow and you can find all the details on how to grab yours here. Today we got our first look at the [...]

HeyUGuys at Cannes 2010: KABOOM Review

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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 [...]

HeyUGuys at Cannes 2010: The Highlights?

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Now that the film schedule has been announced, and Ive discovered that my day-early departure means I will only miss ‘Burnt By The Sun 2: Exodus’ of the films I was definitely keen to see, I have a better idea of the films showing, and have come up with the ten most important films showing [...]