Kaboom' written and directed by Gregg Araki won the Queer Palm award at Cannes last year. That was the first time the award was given out. It's for filmmakers that create movies geared toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. This will give you a hint as to where 'Kaboom' ventures to go. 'Kaboom' is a thriller/scifi/mystery about Smith, (Thomas Dekker) an ambisexual 18 year old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy … more
Star Rating: Watching Kaboom, I was convinced that I was seeing some kind of insane masterpiece, that writer/director Gregg Araki had at last found his voice and was on his way to becoming this generation’s answer to David Lynch. But then came the film’s final fifteen minutes, when everything he had worked for dramatically came crashing down. His mistake, which would be preferable under normal circumstances, was providing an explanation; what begins … more