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It will come back to haunt you, and it will most likely happen while you’re wearing a shirt adorned with your own face.
British comedian Tim Key plays a millionaire fanboy who commands his favorite band to put on a private show, even though its ...
Herb McGwyer is a bit of a folk legend, as he'd be happy to tell anyone who asks at the outset of the melancholy charmer The Ballad of Wallis Island. So what's he doing on a tiny boat, headed for an ...
"The Ballad of Wallis Island" stars Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden on shooting the film, and recording its songs in her ...
It created a Stevie Nicks-Lindsey Buckingham -like dynamic seen in Daisy Jones & The Six. In their prime, McGwyer Mortimer ...
Yet one of many charms of “The Ballad of Wallis Island” is that it has no intentions of timeliness. It has nothing to do with “now,” which, in a way, might make it all the better suited to today.
In this superb little sleeper, a lonely lottery winner reunites his favorite singing duo for a personal concert on a distant Welsh island.
There’s something to be said for predictability – for coziness and safety, so to speak. And “The Ballad of Wallis Island” ...
If you crossed the lovely indie musical “Once” (2007) with the charming Scottish comedy classic “Local Hero” (1983), and ...
The Ballad of Wallis Island, the latest entry in the unofficial subgenre of "gentle cinema," is based on a short film from ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks comedians Tom Basden and Tim Key, about why they returned to their nearly 20-year-old short film to create a full-length feature, The Ballad of Wallis Island.
The Friend,’ ‘Dying for Sex’ and ‘Nice Indian Boy.’ ...