‘Moonrise Kingdom’s’ Bob Balaban on Being ‘Your Guide to the Creative Experience of This Movie’ (Video) The esteemed character actor talks to THR about his collaboration with writer ...

It’s great news that critics and viewers are responding, with enthusiasm and ticket purchases, respectively, to “Moonrise Kingdom.” It deserves both the acclaim and the popularity; for all ...

Moonrise Kingdom While no less twee than Wes Anderson's earlier pictures, "Moonrise Kingdom" supplies a poignant metaphor for adolescence itself.

Set on the adorably-named New England island of New Penzance, a place quirkily explained directly to the audience by fourth-wall breaking, jaunty red-scarf-clad narrator Bob Balaban, Moonrise ...

As explained by a nameless narrator played by Bob Balaban (looking every inch the Christmas elf in a Technicolor-red winter coat and jaunty green cap), “Moonrise Kingdom“ will chronicle the ...

Quintessential Wes Anderson film takes on salvation and community. Moonrise Kingdom epitomizes this paradox, right from the opening sequence. It begins in a 1960s New England home filled with ...

“Moonrise Kingdom” is nothing if not a nostalgic fantasy-reinvention of first love, transposed to 1965 (a fact supplied by Bob Balaban, who doubles as both the pic’s narrator and its most ...

Visually, Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson’s most hermetic movie (which is saying a lot), its mixture of passion and museum-diorama detachment singularly odd.

A decade later, “Moonrise Kingdom” remains nostalgic — despite the film’s exploration of youth and its temporality. The story follows two 12-year-olds, Sam and Suzy, who live on an island off the ...

You are bound to read, now that his new film Moonrise Kingdom is in theaters, that Wes Anderson's work is too 'quirky,' 'twee,' 'precious,' 'dollhouse-like,' or in some other way childlike, to be ...