‘The Penguin Lessons’ Review: Steve Coogan Makes a Feathered Friend in Sweet British Buddy Dramedy
A curmudgeonly teacher finds a renewed zest for life after rescuing a penguin in this new film from 'The Full Monty' helmer ...
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Review: ‘The Penguin Lessons’ tells another tale of a man rescuing a penguin, and vice versa
The Penguin Lessons” is based on a true story, in that it takes its inspiration from a memoir by Tom Michell, who rescued a penguin from an oil slick in Uruguay back in the early 1970s. But aside from ...
Put a bird in it: ‘The Penguin Lessons’ feels familiar
I wasn’t wrong. That movie was called “My Penguin Friend” and starred Jean Reno and Adriana Barraza. It was released eight ...
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‘The Penguin Lessons’ review: Another charming tale of an unusual friendship
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 ...
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Editor's Notebook: Ancient worlds surround us
Like the flickering special effects in the 1960 version of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine," past ages unspool around us — if ...
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How surfing and an unlikely friend helped Sam recover from severe spinal injury
While on a family holiday to Thailand in 2013, a six-metre fall off a dodgy balcony left Sam Bloom with a shattered spine and paralysed from the chest down.