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.

Director Andy Serkis (“Star Wars: The Last Jedi”) has gone down a familiar path with his take on Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” tales with “Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle.” Numerous productions ...

Disney’s animated classic, The Jungle Book, was released in 1967. In it, a little boy named Mowgli gets left behind and brought up in the jungle by a pack of wolves. Ultimately, he ends up in an ...

In “Mowgli,” Rohan Chand plays the title character, an orphaned Indian boy who is rescued by the panther Bagheera (voice of Christian Bale) after his parents are killed. (Netflix/Warner Bros. Pictures ...

Performance capture guru Andy Serkis’ ill-conceived adaptation of 'The Jungle Book' focuses too much on technology, not enough on character. Let’s pretend for a moment that Disney didn’t just release ...