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 ...
Finale week starts out with a double-header for “Pinocchio,” and I’m pleased to report that after last week’s less-than-stellar episodes, we’re back to the compulsive, occasionally dark fun that ...
At least three films based on the classic story about the wooden boy were released this year. The remake of Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio on Netflix both received ...
The tale of the wooden puppet Pinocchio created by a carpenter in Florence may arguably be the most widely-known children's tale. Now new research reveals that the story, written by Carlo Collodi 130 ...
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 ...
Stephen Rothman stages the production, which Hall (Billy Elliot, The Pitman Painters) adapted from Carlo Collodi’s 1883 novel. Taking inspiration from the commedia dell'arte form, Pinocchio will ...
Maybe at one time there was some artistic ambition to Disney's live-action remakes of its classic animated films, but that time has long passed. The more successful these movies have become, the more ...
Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
When you start up Pinocchio on Disney+, you get a tiny warning in the top left corner that the film “contains tobacco depictions.” In 2020, 80 years after the film’s release, that’s the part of ...
This is the kind of game I expected to dislike, but it turns out that playing it is rather pleasant. It's limited, it's simple and it looks a bit odd, but there's something undeniably charming about ...