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It's been a somewhat rough year at the movies so far. The box office is not doing well (as we've previously written about, it's tracking about 11% behind the box office at this same time last year ...
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — ABC4 film critic Patrick Beatty sat down with Tim Key, Tom Basden, and Carey Mulligan to dive into the quirky heart of “The Ballad of Wallis Island”— a whimsical ...
(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.
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 ...
McGwyer Mortimer (Tom Basden & Carey Mulligan) back together. His fantasy turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home on Wallis ...
Mortimer-McGwyer (Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden) back together. His fantasy quickly turns into reality when the bandmates and former lovers accept his invitation to play a private show at his home ...
Hopefully it’s heartwarming, and everything’s falling apart at the moment,” says Tim Key, who co-stars in and co-wrote the film with Tom Basden. “So I guess that’s a good thing.” ...
I knew I’d have to include James Griffiths’ “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a twee-sounding British comedy about a folk musician named Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) who plays a gig on a remote ...
We sit down with actors Tom Basden and Tim Key in the studio to talk about their new movie, The Ballad of Wallis Island! The Ballad of Wallis Island follows Charles (Tim Key), an eccentric lottery ...
Carey Mulligan as Nell Mortimer and Tom Basden as Herb McGwyer. Alistair Heap/Focus Features Naturally, this detail was kept hidden from the sour songwriter, who surely would not have agreed to ...