“The Penguin Lessons” does just that, thanks to the balancing act of director Peter Cattaneo — and the Magellanic penguins playing Juan Salvador (the bird is named after Jonathan Livingston ...

“The Penguin Lessons” (or as I like to call it, “Goodbye Fish ’n’ Chips”) stars Steve Coogan as Thomas Michell. He’s a grumpy gus who’s given up on life. He moves into St. George ...

The unique relationship between animals and people is a territory often mined for cinematic fodder; the twist in “The Penguin Lessons,” based on the 2015 memoir by Tom Michell, is in the ...

“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 ...

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.

His latest, “The Penguin Lessons,” shares with his 2019 drama “Military Wives” the challenge of fashioning an uplifting, audience-friendly silk purse out of the sow’s ear of the world ...

“The Penguin Lessons” gave me an unsettling sense of déjà vu. Reading the synopsis, I could have sworn I’d just reviewed a movie about a man in South America and the penguin who helped ...

The Penguin Lessons is coming out on March 28, 2025. Well-known actors like Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce are back in this movie, and they bring their years of experience to the roles in this ...

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 ...