As if penguins didn’t have enough to fret about with impending tariffs on exporting guano to America, here comes Steve Coogan ...

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 ...

INTERVIEW: In ‘The Penguin Lessons’, the man behind Alan Partridge plays a school teacher in military-occupied Argentina who forms an unlikely bond with a seabird. Such tonal extremes required a ...

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 ...

Steve Coogan has acted opposite all manner of major actors in his time – from big names in comedy to legendary thespians like Judi Dench – but his new film sees him paired up with rather a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...