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With The Ballad of Wallis Island, Tom Basden and Tim Key have written a poignant and comical exploration of music, loss, ...

A film with a huge heart that never descends into schmaltz, this is just the sort of beautifully conceived small-budget ...

Film has been championed by a wide range of podcasters, comedians, journalists and industry figures such as Notting Hill ...

Comedian and poet Tim Key on writing and starring in The Ballad of Wallis Island which has become one of the surprise film hits of the year. Novelists Saima Mir and Marcia Hutchinson on setting their ...

Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden play a long-estranged folk-music duo who a rich man pays to reunite just for him.

So far this year’s strongest Oscar contenders include vampires with a thing for juke joints and aging race car drivers with ...

The Ballad of Wallis Island ★★★ (out of 4 stars) Letting Go “Making the couple” is the basic trope of the rom-com genre. But which couple? There are at least 3 couples, maybe 4, all of ...

I did not have high expectations for "The Ballad of Wallis Island", said Danny Leigh in the Financial Times. Developed from a 2007 short film by its co-stars, poet-comedian Tim Key and his writing ...

Often the best movies of the second half of the year come almost preordained as the Oscars Industrial Complex revs into high ...