It’s impossible to talk about Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio without considering the music. Del Toro’s Netflix adaptation of the Carlo Collodi story takes place in 1930s Italy, during the Fascist ...

You might think the story of “Pinocchio” is familiar, but it isn’t. There have been at least 60 film adaptations for film and TV, including of course Disney’s ...

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, ...

Let’s face it, “Pinocchio” has always been an odd choice for a children’s morality tale. Of course, lying is wrong. But that’s not the only message the story sends. Even the classic 1940 Disney ...

On Family Feud, Steve Harvey didn’t seem to have ever heard of Pinocchio. He had the contestants help him pronounce “Geppetto,” “Pinocchio,” and “Jiminy Cricket.” He also seemed surprised that it was ...

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 ...

The latest entry in Disney’s push to own the fairy tale universe–as studio label Marvel does its comic book heroes– is a live-action version of the 1883 Carlo Collodi children’s classic “The ...