One of the best-reviewed films out of the Sundance Film Festival this year, The Ballad of Wallis Island, is now available to watch in movie theaters. So what are you waiting for? Directed by James ...

At first glance, the plot of “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” one of the most joyous surprises at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, looks like that of a sub-standard rom-com. A former folk ...

On Wednesday, April 30, 2025, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills hosted The Wallis Delivers, a moving and elegant evening dedicated to supporting Los Angeles ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Tom Basden (from left) Carey Mulligan and Tim Key in a scene from “The Ballad of Wallis Island.” Focus Features Share It’s never a bad time for a film ...

What would you do to get your favorite band back together? That’s the question in “The Ballad of Wallis Island.” Hitting theaters everywhere on April 18 and directed by James Griffiths ...

Today marks 39 years since Wallis Simpson, the woman who became Duchess of Windsor after King Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry her, died at the age of 89. She played a notorious role in ...

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 ...

My mistake — encouraged by the offbeat bona fides of the British performers Tom Basden and Tim Key — was expecting “The Ballad of Wallis Island” to provide one. Bereft of chuckles or even ...

Herb McGwyer is a bit of a folk legend, as he'd be happy to tell anyone who asks at the outset of the melancholy charmer The Ballad of Wallis Island. So what's he doing on a tiny boat, headed for ...

Carey Mulligan knew she wanted to be part of The Ballad of Wallis Island from the moment she read the script. "I just loved it and thought it was so moving, funny, beautiful—it made me cry," she ...

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 ...

But The Ballad Of Wallis Island isn’t a horror movie. In actuality, it’s as far from a horror movie as you can really get. Instead of trying to scare or haunt, it’s the cinematic equivalent ...