Former folk-rock star Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden), who’s since shifted into a hollower, more commercial space, turns up in a rickety boat to Wallis Island expecting an intimate, rural festival-type gig.

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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, what I mean is ...

The firm of Forsyth, Carney, Powell and Pressburger likely provided some valuable pro bono counsel to the makers of “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a nicely spooned dose of whimsy that goes down quite ...

The Ballad of Wallis Island is the stealth hit-in-the-making British film that’s finally been released in UK cinemas after gathering word-of-mouth praise since its Sundance Film Festival premiere in ...

I first encountered The Ballad of Wallis Island somewhere between Rome and Philadelphia, high above the Atlantic, returning from Italy with a pilgrim school group I had helped lead. My wife wasn’t ...

Don’t try to outrun your pain: It will come back to haunt you, and it will most likely happen while you’re wearing a shirt adorned with your own face. That’s the moral of The Ballad of Wallis Island, ...

In an era where it’s hard to find successful, laugh-out-loud comedies in theaters, the best bet you’ll have to come across one is in the indie, small-budget realm. This month, that comedy is James ...

“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 them in need of making, remaking or, perversely, unmaking, in director ...

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