For producer, actor, writer and composer Tom Basden, the British comedy film “The Ballad of Wallis Island” leans into the ...
Carey Mulligan, Tim Key and Tom Basden star in the story of a lottery winner who aims to reunite his favorite musical duo ...
The Ballad of Wallis Island” — 2.5 stars If you crossed the lovely indie musical “Once” (2007) with the charming Scottish ...
The Ballad of Wallis Island” is the kind movie that makes it all look so easy — filmmaking, performance, mood, chemistry.
The latest film from James Griffiths is a sweet story of a band getting back together to play a gig for one man.
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The Ballad of Wallis Island, the latest entry in the unofficial subgenre of "gentle cinema," is based on a short film from ...
It created a Stevie Nicks-Lindsey Buckingham -like dynamic seen in Daisy Jones & The Six. In their prime, McGwyer Mortimer ...
In this superb little sleeper, a lonely lottery winner reunites his favorite singing duo for a personal concert on a distant ...
And by dead souls, what I mean is the idea that there’s a spark that’s been mostly extinguished, a glowing ember that burns a little brighter in British comedy The Ballad of Wallis Island . Herb (as ...
A reclusive lottery winner hires his favorite folk duo for a reunion concert. Love, music and laughs proceed from there. It ...
It’s never a bad time for a film like “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” but at the moment it feels like a much-needed balm.