Teacher's pet: Steve Coogan with little Juan Salvador in 'The Penguin Lessons' Coogan plays the floppy-haired, suede shoe-wearing English master imported to raise the boys’ language skills from ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Steve Coogan is pretty reliable when it comes to playing world-weary characters whose passion is revived by a cause ...

The creature won’t leave his side. The bird is the word: Steve Coogan in ‘The Penguin Lessons’ (Lionsgate) Yet Coogan doesn’t quite have the earnestness (and perhaps no actor would have ...

No-one does mild-mannered, gently acerbic cinema for the matinee crowd quite like the British, and the new Steve Coogan movie, The Penguin Lessons, is a no exception. Based on an unusual real-life ...

He wrote a memoir about his avian pal a decade ago and now, at 73, is watching wide-eyed as his life story is turned into an off-beat drama-comedy starring Coogan, Pryce, and a projectile-pooping ...

Jonathan Pryce is not a fan of penguins. Steve Coogan tells me this with a sort of “eh, can you believe it?” arch to his eyebrows. Pryce confirms as much. “I’m not an animal person ...

It’s unclear – but still, The Penguin Lessons persists. And not only does the flightless bird at its centre melt the heart of a full-time cynic (logically played by Steve Coogan), but it inspires him ...

And not only does the flightless bird at its centre melt the heart of a full-time cynic (logically played by Steve Coogan), but it inspires him to take (minor) action against the US-backed ...

Steve Coogan gives quite a tender performance in The Penguin Lessons – it’s just a pity about the surroundings. He plays a teacher who has checked out, in this whimsical comedy-drama based on a memoir ...