Originally featured in The Jungle Book, the song has been covered by a spectrum of artists including jazz players and Grace ...

In Kipling's original tales, Kaa, a male Indian python, is actually one of the protagonists. He's a trusted friend to Bagheera and Baloo, and he saves Mowgli's life on multiple occasions. There's no ...

“Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle” is a bloody good version of “The Jungle Book.” And I do mean bloody. Mowgli the man-cub is introduced as an infant, covered in blood. It’s the blood of his mother, slain ...

Disney’s new version of The Jungle Book is one of the most complex animated movies of all time. Based on Rudyard Kipling’s short stories of the same name, its release comes almost half a century after ...

Lupita Nyong’o and Scarlett Johansson apparently have the bare necessities needed for Disney’s “The Jungle Book. “ The two screen beauties have been tapped to join the Jon Favreau-directed live action ...

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle is a darker reimagination of the Disney classic The Jungle Book, following essentially the same plotline without the charm of the original films. The movie starts with the ...

“The jungle is eternal,” purrs a panther — the second most charismatic black panther to hit screens in 2018, for those of you keeping count — to his “little brother,” a boy with limpid eyes and long ...

Andy Serkis has given life to many unreal and unnatural characters over the course of his career. But the man behind the motion-captured face of Gollum in the “Lord of the Rings” series and Caesar in ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

A darker, sparer take on the Kipling classic, 'Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle' fails to deliver the bare necessities. By THR Staff Reaching civilization more than two-and-a-half years after the release ...

Feel free to skip a summertime visit to the zoo: Director Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book redo is the closest you’re going to get to being plopped right in the middle of one seriously wild kingdom.

Full disclosure: When I was growing up, “The Jungle Book” was my jam. And as an adult, “forget about your worries and your strife” — the simplest of the “Bare Necessities” lines — is a guiding mantra.