someone who would shy away from a film that felt very political would go and see the ‘The Penguin Lessons’ and they’d find out a little bit about what happened and then they’d be more ...

“The Penguin Lessons” is more than a silly film about flightless birds. Directed by Peter Cattaneo, the film is adapted from Tom Michell’s 2016 memoir of the same name. Delving into ...

In the case of “The Penguin Lessons,” the person is Tom Michell, whose memoir of the same name serves as the source material for screenwriter Jeff Pope and director Peter Cattaneo. The film ...

The trailer for The Penguin Lessons makes it look like a cutesy comedy, something that might have easily been called “The Dead Penguin’s Society.” The film is that, to a large degree.

The unique relationship between animals and people is a territory often mined for cinematic fodder; the twist in “The Penguin Lessons ... team behind the film is well versed in presenting ...

“South American penguins teach humans a valuable life lesson” may seem like an obscure film genre, but somehow, we’ve ended up with two of them in surprisingly short order. Last year there ...

With a glum teacher and a penguin far from home, “The Penguin Lessons” is a “happy to be sad” film bringing tears and a smile. Based on Tom Michell’s memoir of teaching at an upper-class ...

Penguins are some of the cutest animals in the world, second only to — and I admit that I may be slightly biased — my two cats. Yes, whether penguins are marching, surfing, dancing or trying ...

Steve Coogan is always better on film when he’s playing a variation ... That’s one of the problems with The Penguin Lessons, a loose adaptation Tom Michell’s 2016 memoir of the same name.

That's the case in The Penguin Lessons, a fact-based story taken from a memoir written by Tom Michell (played here by Steve Coogan), a British-born educator who takes a job teaching English at an ...