Key's Charles is a sensitive, kind man who uses awkward colloquialisms ("wowsers in your trousers!") to compensate for his lack of social graces. At heart, he's just a fan. "The Ballad of Wallis ...

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What’s your favorite Langston Hughes poem? Maybe it’s one you grew up with. Maybe it’s one you stumbled across in a moment of ...

If you crossed the lovely indie musical “Once” (2007) with the charming Scottish comedy classic “Local Hero” (1983), and ...

In this superb little sleeper, a lonely lottery winner reunites his favorite singing duo for a personal concert on a distant ...

Carey Mulligan as Nell Mortimer and Tom Basden as Herb McGwyer in director James Griffiths' "The Ballad of Wallis Island." Credit: Alistair Heap / Focus Features Have you every had a day so ...

I knew I’d have to include James Griffiths’ “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” a twee-sounding British ... Blunt as his Charles is, he proves to be the most guarded of the trio; there are unsung stanzas ...

When folk musician Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) arrives on the remote, sea-swept Wallis Island, he believes he’s coming to play an intimate gig for a few fans. In reality, the concert is for one man: ...

Something about this line and the poem's descriptions of our varied landscapes would ... The green tangle, coiling lianas and sprouting ferns and orchids described in the third stanza of "My County" ...