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 ...

His latest, “The Penguin Lessons,” shares with his 2019 drama “Military Wives” the challenge of fashioning an uplifting, ...

Established in 1961, Penguin’s Modern Classics series has featured a huge array of titles and authors – everyone from Carson McCullers and Vladimir Nabokov through to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf.

Steve Coogan plays Tom Michell, an English teacher in 1970s Argentina, whose small new friend makes his class a hit.

Penguins are some of the cutest animals in the world, second only to -- and I admit that that I may be slightly biased -- my ...

Perhaps we don’t need the reminder that our personal relationships with animals are some of the most special and rewarding ...

Who knew that combining a sweet story about an adorable penguin and one about the atrocities of a political uprising in 1976 Argentina could have such charm? “The Penguin Lessons” does just ...

Guilty as charged. I have a ridiculously soft spot in my moviegoing heart when an animal is up on the big screen. For me, it ...

Sony Pictures Classics has announced that it will release its dramedy The Penguin Lessons, starring Academy Award nominees Steve Coogan (Philomena) and Jonathan Pryce (The Two Popes), in theaters ...

One film per year in which the unexpected friendship of a penguin deeply affects a human being dealing with emotional pain? No objection here. That’s what we get with the British offering “The ...

“The Penguin Lessons” gave me an unsettling sense ... Arriving in Argentina at a private school in 1976, his assignment is to whip a class full of failing misfits into shape.