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, ...

The film — getting its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival — marks the acclaimed director's animated feature directorial debut. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent A Guillermo del Toro ...

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 ...

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 ...

The world doesn’t need another Pinocchio movie… unless it’s a Pinocchio movie directed by Guillermo del Toro. The Oscar-winning filmmaker, along with co-director Mark Gustafson, takes the familiar ...

Guillermo del Toro's Netflix adaptation of "Pinocchio" breathes new life into the over-century-old art form of stop-motion animation. The film achieved a new level of expressiveness in its animated ...

Author Carlo Collodi may have drawn inspiration from one—or a few—female figures in his life Antonia Mufarech - Correspondent The Blue-Haired Fairy and the Talking Cricket try to make Pinocchio drink ...

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 ...

This live action and animated reimagining of the classic fairy tale takes too much time relaying its narrative. By Amy Nicholson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through ...