Film Review: Moonrise Kingdom

on the run for love

Wes Anderson's seventh directorial effort is an adorable machine of a film. The story revolves around two outcast children (Sam and Suzy, played by relative newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward) and their young, earnest love. He is a recently retired Khaki Scout whose parents have died. She is the daughter of two litigators who don't know much about their oldest child except that she is an odd, disturbed duck. Trapped by the rules of the adults

Steve Martin: Banjo Playin' Fool

This next song is called "Angry Birds: Level 7"

I just got back from seeing Steve Martin at Joe's Pub, playing Bluegrass Banjo with The Steep Canyon Rangers, and before you can cough "The Return of Bruno" suggestively into your hand, let me just say that it was completely amazeballs. Martin has been playing banjo for a quite a while, and this is not his first CD release, but for some reason I have always blocked that part of his career from entering my conscious thought.  He was Steve Martin: Comedian and Steve Martin: Author, but Steve Martin: Banjoist was not on the docket. Apparently, I was missing out. Rather than go point-by-point through the whole show, let me just point out a few of the best bits: