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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Who would have thought that 50 years ago I would see a penguin flap its wings in oil, and now Steve Coogan is playing me in a film,’ Tom says, laughing. ‘I really think it fits this idea of ...

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The old showbiz admonition "Never work with children or animals" evidently doesn't faze Steve Coogan. In this movie, he works with children - well, teenage boys - and an animal. Well, a bird.