By The Learning Network We invited students to discuss a guest essay written by a mother who says sugarcoating painful truths doesn’t help children. By The Learning Network We invite students ...

The director of “The Penguin Lessons,” Peter Cattaneo, also made “The Full Monty,” so he has some experience with crowd-pleasing films, at the same time being deft with unusual subject matter.

The unique relationship between animals and people is a territory often mined for cinematic fodder; the twist in “The Penguin Lessons,” based on the 2015 memoir by Tom Michell, is in the ...

“The Penguin Lessons” gave me an unsettling sense of déjà vu. Reading the synopsis, I could have sworn I’d just reviewed a movie about a man in South America and the penguin who helped ...

Which naturally does wonders for his bored students, who take a renewed interest in their lessons. And for Tom himself, who previously snuck off for naps during classes but now finds himself ...

Monet; Dali; Matisse; Picasso; Van Gogh; Chagall; Pollock.