It’s easy to forget that Matt Reeves’s The Batman, with its David Fincher and John Carpenter influences, was also quite humorous, but given the incredibly dour tone of the film, some levity was ...

The “Nihilist Penguin” works as a meme because it invites projection. Viewers are not reacting to the penguin’s reality but to their own. In seeing meaning where there is none, the internet transforms ...

Documentary footage of a ‘Nihilistic Penguin’ walking toward certain death has gone viral—where did it come from and what does it mean?

All too often, a Toronto Film Festival premiere is seen as an audition for a U.S. release, when the end result is more like sending a manned space flight into the sun. The Penguin Lessons is a case in ...

Blame it on lowered expectations for the umpteenth cartoon starring those commando penguins from “Madagascar,” overexposed little darlings who stole all those movies and went on to star in their own ...

Billy is a Senior Features Author for Collider. Having written over 300 articles in just over a year, Billy regularly covers the biggest TV shows and films releasing while also analysing some of the ...

In January 2026, a short video of a lone penguin calmly walking away from its colony toward the icy mountains of Antarctica returned to ...

Submit to it. Resistance is futile. Smart-mouth flightless waterfowl bring the funny in all sorts of clever ways in “Penguins of Madagascar.” The inevitable feature featuring Skipper (voiced by ...

It's unfair to expect any penguin to take flight, but the "Penguins of Madagascar" struggles to stay afloat when separated from its home franchise. Entertaining, but inessential, in DreamWorks' three ...