I’ve been truly bowled over by one of the most relentlessly funny films I’ve seen in The Ballad of Wallis Island. I can’t ...

It's no perfectly transportive symphony, but The Ballad of Wallis Island has its springtime indie cinema charms ...

There are two problems with this: First, Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) and Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan) broke up years ago, as both a couple and an act, and second, McGwyer thinks he’s been hired ...

Based on co-writers Tom Basden and Tim Key’s own 2007 short, “The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island,” the feature length version sticks to a modest scale. After Herb McGwyer ...

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE ONE AND ONLY HERB MCGWYER PLAYS WALLIS ISLAND") TOM BASDEN: (As Herb McGwyer) This doesn't make sense. Where will the - where will people be? You said there'd be a hundred.

In the annals of redemption stories about dead souls, former folk musician turned pop star Herb McGwyer isn’t the most damned, but he’s not that easy to like, either. And by dead souls ...

Starring: Tom Basden, Tim Key and Carey Mulligan Email newsletter signup Sign up for our daily email newsletter Director: ...

But unbeknownst to singer-songwriter Herb McGwyer (Basden), Charles has also invited his ex and other half of the act, Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan), in a naïve attempt at reconciling his ...

There are two problems with this: First, Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) and Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan) broke up years ago, as both a couple and an act, and second, McGwyer thinks he’s been hired ...