Kaboom

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Growing isn’t the end of the world. It sure feels like it, though, which Gregg Araki understands better than any filmmaker. A giant of the New Queer Cinema movement, he spent the ’90s smashing together pop-art colors, underground youth culture, and AIDS-era nihilism into a series of hyperstylized, irreverent indies. KABOOM might not have the Criterion Collection cachet of its cult-classic siblings in Araki’s “Teenage Apocalypse” trilogy, but think of it like the mega-horny mushroom cloud left in their wake. When film student Smith (Thomas Dekker) isn’t dealing with confusing hook-ups or his dubiously heterosexual hunk of a roommate, unsettling visions plague his dreams. These omens draw him

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