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Allie gives HollywoodLife.com the scoop on The Good Mad, and hints that we'll be seeing them very soon on 'The Lying Game!' Remember that scene on The Lying Game when Justin first ran into Laurel while she was practicing her violin? Well, not only was Allie Gonino not faking her violin skills, but she and her strings are now part of a brand-new musical "outfit" called The Good Mad -- and you're about to know them very well. Allie, along with bandmates Adam Brooks and Andy Fischer-Price, have crafted a sound she describes as "folk-Americana and rootsy," and they've already had a few shows in Austin. In case you're wondering where The Good Mad generated its very unique name, Allie says it came about "in a weird way." "One of Adam's favorite books is On The Road by Jack Kerouac, and there's a quote that says '...

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, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor – all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night.

Kaboom – winner of the Queer Palm at the 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival – is scheduled to hit select UK cinemas on June 10.

Check out the UK poster below:

Source: Sky Movies...

2010 - 86 mins. - Not Rated

D: Gregg Araki

C: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka, Roxane Mesquida, Juno Temple, Andy Fischer-Price, James Duval, Nicole Laliberte, Kelly Lynch, Jason Olive 

Pan sexual college student is haunted by nightmarish visions of a fellow student being murdered by men wearing animal masks and of prophecies predicting the end of the world.

 

Going into a Gregg Araki movie, there is a certain expectation of him delivering something edgy, sexual, different and in your face. Kaboom is certainly far more polished and slick then the films that he directed in the 90's, yet it is edgy and in your face in its style & tone. So those trademarks come across intact. Kaboom does delve into the exploration of sexuality by scratching the surface on some taboo topics, but it doesn't fully commit to developing these elements in a more meaningful way. And as far as it being different,...

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Irt: Deadliest Roads - Blu-ray Review

I am a reality television fiend when it comes to Ice Road Truckers.

Yes, there is no ice this time around but that doesn’t make this series any less thrilling. Missing a few episodes when it aired and then just waiting for the chance to see all the episodes all at once when it hit Blu-ray this was really well worth the wait. For those of us who enjoy series like this Irt: Deadliest Roads does not disappoint.

Instead of cold driving truck drivers going across snowy strips of ice we’ve got a trio of drivers making their way on some of the most sinister roads in India. Brimming with genuine humor and the...

Gregg Araki's trippy comedy sci-fi flick 'Kaboom' has just arrived on video on demand stateside and it's described as a 'hyper-stylized 'Twin Peaks' for the Coachella Generation'. The sex-drenched thriller stars the young Brit actress Juno Temple - below ('St. Trinian's', 'Year One', 'Cracks') whom, appeasingly, decides to go topless in sex scenes she's involved with in the flick. 'Kaboom' also stars Haley Bennett (below), Thomas Dekker, James Duval, Andy Fischer-Price, Brandy Futch, Kelly Lynch, Brennan Mejia, Carlo Mendez, Roxane Mesquida, Jason Olive and Chris Zylka. Temple is currently shooting alongside Riley Keough in new werewolf flick 'Jack and Diane'....

Here is the film trailer for Kaboom, an official selection in the Sundance Film Festival 2011 and Cannes Film Festival 2010. It’s a hybrid of Superbad meets Donnie Darko? Kaboom is directed by Gregg Araki and stars Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka and Roxane Mesquida.

About Kaboom:

Indie veteran Gregg Araki returns to the spotlight with Kaboom, a hyper-stylized Twin Peaks for the Coachella Generation, featuring a gorgeous, super-hot young cast. The film is a wild, sex-drenched, comical thriller that tells the story of Smith, an ambisexual 18-year-old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic Southern California seaside town. Kaboom will make its Us premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and is writer/director Araki’s eighth film there since his breakthrough The Living End, including The Doom Generation to his masterpiece Mysterious Skin. The film stars Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple,...

Halfway through the new full trailer for Gregg Araki's new film Kaboom I'd already decided it looks like a sexually liberated, made for TV Donnie Darko when this quote came up: "A gonzo teen fantasy that's tripper, hornier and more apocalyptically funny than 'Donnie Darko'." Oh, the coincidence! We showed you some Nsfw clips [1] from the film when it was at Tiff last year, and a Nsfw teaser trailer [2] just a week ago, but this is the full trailer, from Sundance Selects. It lays out the basics of the film pretty well: really pretty college kids (could the trailer love Thomas Dekker's eyes any more?), lots of sex (not as much as in the Nsfw teaser) and then some 'freaky,' weird stuff. Is this thing serious? Is it a cartoon that exploits classic stereotypes of hot college kids having sex, or a more ambitious piece...

Thanks to IFC Films, we finally have the official trailer debut for Gregg Araki's "playfully perverse, refreshingly rude gonzo teen fantasy" Kaboom just ahead of its simultaneous U.S. premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and on-demand airings beginning on January 21st courtesy of Sundance Selects.

Synopsis:

Sundance veteran Gregg Araki returns to the festival with Kaboom, a hyper-stylized Twin Peaks for the Coachella Generation, featuring a gorgeous, super hot young cast. The film is a wild, sex-drenched, comical thriller that tells the story of Smith, an ambisexual 18-year-old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic Southern California seaside town. Written and directed by Araki (who has shown eight films at Sundance from his breakthrough The Living End to The Doom Generation to his masterpiece Mysterious Skin) and produced by Araki and his longtime producer Andrea Sperling, the film stars Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple,...

Indie veteran Gregg Araki returns to the spotlight with Kaboom, a hyper-stylized Twin Peaks for the Coachella Generation, featuring a gorgeous, super-hot young cast. The film is a wild, sex-drenched, comical thriller that tells the story of Smith, an ambisexual 18-year-old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic Southern California seaside town. Kaboom will make its Us premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and is writer/director Araki’s eighth film there since his breakthrough The Living End, including The Doom Generation to his masterpiece Mysterious Skin. The film stars Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka, Roxane Mesquida, Andy Fischer-Price, James Duval and Kelly Lynch. Here is the beautiful new poster for the film.

Are you ready for a sex-induced sci-fi college comedy? I thought so. Gregg Araki has delivered just that with Kaboom. The film premiered at Cannes last year, and then went on a lengthy festival circuit. It will now see a release in limited theaters and video on demand this month via IFC Films. The film stars Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka, and Roxane Mesquida. We shared the poster a few days ago, and now you can see the trailer below via Apple.

Synopsis: Indie veteran Gregg Araki returns to the spotlight with Kaboom, a hyper-stylized Twin Peaks for the Coachella Generation, featuring a gorgeous, super-hot young cast. The film is a wild, sex-drenched, comical thriller that tells the story of Smith, an ambisexual 18-year-old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic Southern California seaside town. Kaboom will make its Us premiere at...

Can't make it to Utah this year for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival? Well, thanks to Sundance Selects, the theatrical and video-on-demand film label, five films being screened at the fest will simultaneously be available nationwide, on demand, on most major cable systems. Two seems to qualify as genre films, but the others sound worthy of a bit of attention as well.

From the Press Release:

Sundance Selects has announced its second partnership with the not-for-profit Sundance Institute for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival (January 20th-30th; Park City, Ut). Five films are part of the "Direct from the Sundance Film Festival" initiative, including four world premieres recently acquired by Sundance Selects (Brendan Fletcher's Mad Bastards, Michael Tully's Septien, Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton's These Amazing Shadows, and Joe Swanberg's Uncle Kent) and one U.S. premiere (Gregg Araki's Kaboom). The films featured through the Sundance Institute...

The UK's most amazing horror film festival Film4 FrightFest has released what could very well be another one of the best horror line-ups we've seen ever for its latest show taking place from Thursday the 26th of August to Monday the 30th of August, brimming with films we've been salivating over Stateside!

From the Press Release

This year there are eight British films in the main programme (another record) including Monsters, Gareth Edwards’ sensational post-Apocalyptic debut, The Ford Brothers’ Cannes-hyped African Zombie flick The Dead and Johannes Roberts F – in which a school gets a lesson in horror! Other home-grown titles are Dead Cert (East-End gangsters meet Eastern European vampires), Isle Of Dogs (nasty gangland horror), Paul Andrew Williams’ harrowing Cherry Tree Lane and werewolf thriller 13Hrs. Plus, Jake West will be presenting his in-depth documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship And Videotape, which will be followed by a Q & A panel discussion.

The complete lineup for the 2010 edition of the Film4 Frightfest has just been announced and, as usual, it is a quality selection of the best in horror film from the UK and around the world. The program splits into two programs - the main lineup and sidebar Discovery program - and you'll find both below!

Programme = Screen 1

Thursday Aug 26

6.30pm Hatchet II  (World Premiere)

FrightFest continues its strong relationship with Adam Green by hosting the world premiere of the sequel to his 2006 slasher sensation. Picking up right where the splatter-tastic original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family's connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. Delivering unapologetically unrestrained gushers of gore,...

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 has never really cemented the promise his earlier works showed into a sustainable breakthrough into mainstream cinema, even despite great critical acclaim for Mysterious Skin, and even some of his lesser known productions. And I for one always lamented a cross-over that might bring with it more Araki films, but I seems that I grossly underestimated the director.

No-one who left the mid-afternoon screening could possibly have been left in any doubt that Araki has no intention of ever making that breakthrough, or that he positively wallows in his classification as a fringe film-maker.