The Oscar-nominated film was made using stop-motion alongside some groundbreaking new techniques. The Movies Insider team breaks down how the film achieved its lifelike look. Watch all episodes of ...

Rome has the Coliseum, Venice its canals. And then there's Collodi, a tiny Tuscan town that lays claim to something just as famous: Pinocchio. Here, the boy-puppet is a giant, a patron saint, ...

Originally published as a serialized magazine story in 1881, The Adventures of Pinocchio may have been written for children, but Collodi — the pen name of seminary student-turned-author Carlo ...

CNN — Even taking it as a given that Disney's animated classics will all receive live-action makeovers eventually, "Pinocchio" feels like an unnecessary exercise -- a movie so flat that it never ...

Folks, I regret to inform you that the unsettling CGI remakes are at it again. This time, it’s a “live-action reimagining” of Pinocchio, which began streaming on Disney+ today. For those who remember ...

For his stop-motion take on Carlo Collodi’s 1883 fable, the Mexican auteur turned to many of his frequent collaborators and craftspeople to create a grounded fantasy with some stark parallels to the ...

This quirky classic has been made all the stranger by the decision to turn it into an ill-conceived metaphor about fascism. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

On May 14, 2024, a rumor went viral on X, claiming that the original Geppetto (misspelled in the posts) — the woodcarver in "The Adventures of Pinocchio" — was actually a "slave master," and the ...

This new Pinocchio musical is a patchy affair which still manages to be infectious enough to bring plenty of Christmas cheer, thanks to the gusto of its performances and home-made design flair.

Roberto Benigni plays the woodcutter Geppetto, who crafts a puppet to replace the son he never had, in director Matteo Garrone’s live-action adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s beloved children’s book, ...