UK Poster for Gregg Akari’s Kaboom

Kaboom

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, [...]

Rubber DVD Review

Rubber DVD

Released on DVD and Blu-ray today is Rubber, a French horror-comedy written and directed by Quentin Dupieux. The film revolves around a tyre, Robert, that’s been buried and forgotten in the middle of the desert. When, for some unknown reason, Robert wakes up and discovers his destructive telepathic powers, he soon sets his sights on a desert [...]

Rubber UK Trailer

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Optimum Releasing, via the film’s official Facebook page, have released the UK trailer for comedy-horror film Rubber. Directed by Quentin Dupieux, Rubber revolves around a tyre, Robert, who, for some unknown reason, wakes up to discover he possesses destructive telepathic powers. Robert subsequently embarks on a killing spree in a nearby desert town. The film features a cast [...]

First Official Rubber Trailer

Rubber

Magnet Releasing, via Apple, have released the first official trailer for Rubber. Directed by Quentin Dupieux, Rubber a genre-bluring film about a killer tire, Robert, who roams the California desert exploding people’s heads with telepathic powers. Rubber stars Stephen Spinella, Roxane Mesquida, Jack Plotnick, and Wings Hauser and will be released in US cinemas on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]