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This week's new films
19 hours ago | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Moonrise Kingdom (12A)
(Wes Anderson, 2012, Us) Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray. 94 mins
Anderson's signature meticulous, deadpan retro-chic works best when it's tethered to something tangibly real, as this is, historically and emotionally. Set on an island microcosm of 1965 America, it details the touching elopement of two precocious but naive pre-teens, and the grown-up chaos and crises their clandestine outdoors adventure provokes. It's a stylised storm in a teacup, packed with visual flourishes, cultural footnotes and the usual dry comedy. But beneath the playfulness are some deceptively mature observations on the pain that comes with both childhood and adulthood.
Men In Black 3 (PG)
(Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012, Us) Will Smith, Josh Brolin, Alice Eve. 106 mins
A time-travel twist facilitates a return to the 1960s and the golden age of conspiracy theories, which goes a long way to justifying a sequel no one was particularly screaming out for. »
- Steve Rose
HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 50 Pairs of Chicago Passes to ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ With Edward Norton, Bill Murray
21 hours ago | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 50 admit-two movie passes up for grabs to the advance screening of “Moonrise Kingdom” from Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola!
“Moonrise Kingdom,” which opens in Chicago on June 1, 2012, features an all-star cast including Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Jason Schwartzman, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Kara Hayward, Jared Gilman, Bob Balaban, L.J. Foley, Charlie Kilgore, Jake Ryan and Neal Huff from writer and director Wes Anderson and writer Roman Coppola.
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
In Theaters: 'Men In Black III' & 'Moonrise Kingdom' Hope To Be 'The Intouchables' This Weekend
22 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Fill up the cooler, slather on the sunscreen, and find all your white clothes that have been moldering in the back of the closet since Labor Day: it’s Memorial Day Weekend! This year, film studios are celebrating the armed forces and the unofficial start of summer with aliens, nuclear holocaust, drug addicts, and puppy love. So whether you’re on your way to the beach, to the plains, to the city, to the country, or just staying home to enjoy three-to-four days of freedom and fireworks, we wish you lots of happy movie watching!
Well-suited dudes in Ray-Bans are back to protect humans from “the scum of the universe” in “Men in Black III,” the third installment of the franchise, once again from director Barry Sonnenfeld. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones return as Agents J and K, respectively, government agents that police alien activity throughout the universe. »
- Emma Bernstein
Moonrise Kingdom | Review
23 hours ago | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Director: Wes Anderson Writers: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola Starring: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman, Bob Balaban I've was introduced to the work of Wes Anderson by my older brother back in 1997 when he insisted that I watch Bottle Rocket. It was love at first viewing. A couple of years later I tagged along with my brother to the Austin stop of the 1999 Rushmore bus tour before screening the film at the long gone Arbor 7 theater with Anderson and Jason Schwartzman in attendance. A couple of years later there were multiple viewings of The Royal Tenenbaums at the now defunct Dobie Theater. Around the time of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou I have fond memories of a first (almost) date with what would later become my wife at the original (and now a distant memory) Colorado Street »
- Linc Leifeste
Five Reasons You Need To See Wes Anderson's 'Moonrise Kingdom'
25 May 2012 7:57 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
by Adam Murphy
When it comes to Wes Anderson, moviegoers fall neatly into two piles: those who love him, and those who’ve never heard of him. What’s that? His twee sensibilities are just a little too indie-quirky-cute for you? Well, “Moonrise Kingdom” may surprise even the most jaded viewers. Sure, it’s packed with Anderson’s trademark strand of oddball whimsy, but for the haters out there, you will find a well-acted and tightly written 90 minute movie with enough heart to melt the iceberg that resides in your frigid chest cavity.
For those of you who aren’t already picking up your Rushmore blazer from the dry cleaner to wear to the very first screening, here are five reasons to see “Moonrise Kingdom.”
Children with Wilderness Training
Granted, "Moonrise Kingdom" is set in the 1960s, but aren’t you sick and tired of these anemic wimps with their »
- MTV Movies Team
Bruce Willis & Edward Norton in Moonrise Kingdom Movie Clip
25 May 2012 7:47 AM, PDT | CineMovie | See recent CineMovie news »
Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, and Frances McDormand join director Wes Anderson and his usual suspects of actors (Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman) for another quirky tale from the two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker in Moonrise Kingdom. Watch a clip from Moonrise Kingdom featuring Bruce Willis as a town sheriff and Edward Norton as a boy scout leader.
Set in the summer of 1965 on an island off the coast of New England, two 12-year-olds fall madly in love with each other run away together into the wilderness. Bruce Willis' Captain Sharp and Edward Norton's Khaki Scout troop leader are tasked with finding the young couple before a violent storm makes its way to their island.
Moonrise Kingdom is the sixth colloboration between Bill Murray and Wes Anderson (The Royal
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Bruce Willis & Edward Norton in Moonrise Kingdom Movie Clip
25 May 2012 7:47 AM, PDT | CineMovie | See recent CineMovie news »
Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, and Frances McDormand join director Wes Anderson and his usual suspects of actors (Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman) for another quirky tale from the two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker in Moonrise Kingdom. Watch a clip from Moonrise Kingdom featuring Bruce Willis as a town sheriff and Edward Norton as a boy scout leader.
Set in the summer of 1965 on an island off the coast of New England, two 12-year-olds fall madly in love with each other run away together into the wilderness. Bruce Willis' Captain Sharp and Edward Norton's Khaki Scout troop leader are tasked with finding the young couple before a violent storm makes its way to their island.
Moonrise Kingdom is the sixth colloboration between Bill Murray and Wes Anderson (The Royal
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‘Moonrise Kingdom’ Finds the Sweet But Sad Beauty In Young Romance and Grown-Up Disappointment
25 May 2012 7:30 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
It’s the summer of 1965, and a storm is heading towards New Penzance Island. The small dot of land is home to a few permanent residences, but it’s also a seasonal destination for a troop of Khaki Scouts who camp amidst the lush green forests and golden fields. Scout Master Ward (Edward Norton) awakes one morning to discover the troop’s least liked member, Sam (Jared Gilman), has gone missing. Elsewhere on the island the Bishop family realizes their daughter Suzy (Kara Hayward) has also disappeared. The two pre-teens fell for each other the year prior during a brief, chance meeting, and have now taken off on an adventure as young lovers are prone to do (in movies at least). Sam and Suzy soon have half the island searching for them, but being such a small, sparsely populated place that search party consists almost entirely of the Scout Master, the »
- Rob Hunter
Moonrise Kingdom | Review
25 May 2012 7:08 AM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »
Director: Wes Anderson Writers: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola Starring: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Bruce Willis, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman To many, it will be no surprise that Wes Anderson’s new film, Moonrise Kingdom, is a delight from beginning to end credits. The director, famous for delivering works of sharp and random wit, unconventional relationships and reactions, and impeccable style, brings his winning formula back for another round in a darkly sweet romance. It is the stormy summer of 1965. On a small island off the coast on New England, khaki scout Sam (Jared Gilman) and Sunday shoe-wearing Suzy (Kara Hayward) go missing. They are on a mission, an adventure, and are in love. Meanwhile, various factions of the town mobilize to search for the runaways. There are Suzy’s irate parents, Laura and Walt Bishop, played by Frances McDormand and the subtly winning Bill Murray. »
- Jessica Delfanti
The Hey U Guys Cinema Release Round-up : 25th May
25 May 2012 5:30 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator finally unseated The Avengers from atop of the UK Box Office standings this week after a barnstorming opening few days that was no doubt aided by plenty of surprisingly positive reviews. The Raid had an impressive showing too coming in 5th overall this past week which isn’t bad for an ultra-violent Indonesian martial-arts movie!
This weeks big release is the third outing for the Men In Black with Josh Brolin joining Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith in the intergalactic fight against alien invasion. Sony will be expecting big things from the Mib and it’s undoubtedly one of their tent pole blockbusters of the summer. After the damp squib that was Men In Black 2 however, there was hardly a major public demand for a third installment so it remains to be seen whether there will be sufficient interest. Nevertheless, if Smith and Jones »
- Rob Keeling
Moonrise Kingdom – review
24 May 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Wes Anderson is on form with a charming tale about two unpopular kids who fall in love and run away
Wes Anderson's film-making style is now as singular and familiar as Japanese noh theatre, and he has been around long enough for audiences to know whether this style rubs them the wrong or the right way. For me, it is the latter, although I became disenchanted with Anderson with the release of The Darjeeling Limited in 2007, a film in which the qualities of gentleness and charm had disastrously gone missing from his habitual mannerisms: the result was self-indulgent. But his Americanised, animated version of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox two years later was an amiable step back in the right direction, and now there is Moonrise Kingdom, another sprightly confection of oddities, attractively eccentric, witty and strangely clothed in the manner of his The Royal Tenenbaums, and like Rushmore, »
- Peter Bradshaw
"There's Freedom In Bondage": 12 Things Learned At Cannes About 'Moonrise Kingdom' & Wes Anderson's Hyper-Controlled Style
24 May 2012 12:21 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Having received some of his best reviews in years, Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom" made a grand debut opening the Cannes Film Festival in style last week. By all accounts (including one very positive review of our own), Anderson's latest picture and first live-action film in five years, is a pleasant, charming and enchanting return to form that's both nostalgic for those early pre-teen years and emotional in its exploration of adolescent angst and early love. Starring newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward with an excellent supporting cast featuring Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Jason Schwartzman, Playlist contributor Aaron Hillis got a chance to sit down with some of the cast at the press conference in Cannes.
What ensued was an entertaining conversation with Anderson, co-writer Roman Coppola, the narrator in the film Bob Balaban, plus Norton, Schwartzman, Gilman and Hayward. Here's twelve »
- Edward Davis
Wes Anderson Doesn't Think Much About People Who Call Him 'Twee'
24 May 2012 12:21 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Wes Anderson may have assembled his best cast yet for "Moonrise Kingdom": Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Harvey Keitel and Tilda Swinton joined Anderson mainstays Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman on the roster. Yet, it was finding the film's young leads, Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman, that proved most difficult.
"With this kind of movie -- you're working on other fronts at the same time, but in the back of your mind, you're kind of thinking, 'If you don't find them, you can't make the movie,'" Anderson told HuffPost Entertainment.
The 13-year-old neophyte actors were hired by Anderson after eight months of searching to play Suzy and Sam, two New England tweens who fall in love and run away during the summer of 1965.
"I didn't have any real preconceived notions about what they ought to be like -- I didn't really picture anything," Anderson said. "I was »
- The Huffington Post
2 Brand New Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted movie posters!
24 May 2012 6:48 AM, PDT | Upcoming-Movies.com | See recent Upcoming-Movies.com news »
New poster for Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith, David Schwimmer and Sacha Baron Cohen DreamWorks Animation's latest comedy in the franchise gets ready for its June 8th release, and Upcoming-Movies.com has the latest poster up as well as one that came out yesterday for the eagerly anticipated film which also features the voice talents of Frances McDormand, Cedric the Entertainer, Sherri Shepherd, Andy Richter and André Benjamin. Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Gloria the Hippo, and Melman the Giraffe are still fighting to get home to their beloved Big Apple and of course, King Julien, Maurice and the Penguins are all along for the comedic adventure. Their journey takes them through Europe where they find the perfect cover: a traveling circus, which they reinvent – Madagascar style. »
Moonrise Kingdom Movie Review
23 May 2012 7:08 PM, PDT | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »
Title: Moonrise Kingdom Directed By: Wes Anderson Starring: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Bob Balaban, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Lucas Hedges, Charlie Kilgore, Gabriel Rush It’s one thing to make a movie feel unique, but Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom is almost otherworldly. While the film’s centerpiece pre-teen romance packs the power to earn a place in anyone’s heart, some readjusting is required to appreciate the film as a whole. But, if you’re willing to let loose and fall in line with Anderson’s techniques, Moonrise Kingdom proves to be an absolutely unforgettable pleasure. The film takes place on a small island in the summer [ Read More ] »
- Perri Nemiroff
Review: Moonrise Kingdom
23 May 2012 10:10 AM, PDT | Shadowlocked | See recent Shadowlocked news »
Wes Anderson's latest film is a beautiful thing to behold, at once a nostalgic journey into the simplicity of childhood as well as a melancholic reflection of how your life at any age is never truly your own. It takes place in the summer of 1965, when twelve-year-old Sam (Jared Gilman) - the least popular member of the Khaki Scouts organization - and his peer Suzy (Kara Howard) - the only daughter in a family of sons - run away together. At first the connection seems preposterous; even on the tiny (fictional) island of Penzance, Sam and Suzy have never really met each other. Instead, they happened upon one another the year prior, and had been corresponding by mail ever since, writing letters as simple as "where?" to cement the specifics of their escape plan.
What follows is the sort of simple assumptions about life on the run that only kids could dream of. »
Madagascar 3: Europe’S Most Wanted – Skipper Needs Your Help & New Mobile App
23 May 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
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Don’t forget to see Madagascar 3: Europe.S Most Wanted, in theaters June 8 in 3D!
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In the third installment of the billion-dollar .Madagascar. franchise, Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) and Melman (David Schwimmer) are determined to make their way back to The Central Park Zoo in New York City. Leaving Africa behind, they.ve taken a detour and surfaced, quite literally, in Europe . on a hunt for the penguins and chimps who have managed to break the bank of a Monte Carlo casino. Soon the animals are discovered by dogged French animal control »
- Michelle McCue
The Playlist Interview From Cannes: Wes Anderson Discusses The Nostalgia, Music, & Making Of 'Moonrise Kingdom'
23 May 2012 9:31 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Few filmmakers have a more distinctive take on the world than Wes Anderson. Many of his contemporaries -- David O. Russell, Darren Aronofsky, Spike Jonze, et al. -- are extraordinary filmmakers, but it's only with Anderson that you can look at a single frame -- any frame -- and instantly know that it's his. And the same is true of his latest, "Moonrise Kingdom," which marks his return to live-action filmmaking for the first time in five years.
The film was very well received when it opened the Cannes Film Festival last week (including our A-grade review), and we caught up with Anderson at the fest to talk about the new film, which stars Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman, and newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward. Mild spoilers may be ahead, just to warn you, but as the film goes on release this Friday, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
The Dictator overthrows The Avengers at the UK box office
23 May 2012 8:15 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 18th to Sunday 20th May 2012...
After dominating the UK box office chart for the past three weeks, The Avengers has been usurped by Sacha Baron Cohen's Admiral General Aladeen as The Dictator debuts in first place with £4,963,745, which includes two days of previews. The Dictator's opening haul is just a fraction below the debut of Cohen and director Larry Charles' previous effort Brüno, but is less than a million short of the £6.2m pulled in by Borat back in November 2006.
Despite slipping to second place, Marvel's The Avengers manages to add another £2.8m to push its astonishing box office take to a hefty £45m to date, while the latest Tim Burton / Johnny Depp collaboration Dark Shadows shrugs off mixed reviews to hold onto third place, dropping just 35% and passing the £5m mark with another £1.6m in its second weekend. »
- flickeringmyth
Film Review: 'Moonrise Kingdom'
23 May 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★☆☆ American indie auteur Wes Anderson returns to live action filmmaking this year with Cannes opener Moonrise Kingdom (2012), a typically quirky offering that partially manages to break free of its mawkish trappings for a sweet(ish) tale of childhood romance. Anderson regulars Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman are joined here by a somewhat hit-and-miss ensemble cast of players, including Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton.
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- CineVue
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