Byun Hee-bong’s Choi Gong-pil is truly a heartwarming character in the series. Gong-pil found Ha-myung and decided to give ...

It is “truly enchanting” to watch traditional puppetry at a time when we’re “bombarded by artificially created images”.

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 ...

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, ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

Collodi, Italy, birthplace of the beloved wooden puppet, honors its literary roots with parks, art and global recognition.

Bry is a film fanatic who deeply cherishes the fantasy worlds that movies and shows allow us to escape into. The story of Pinocchio has been seen through many iterations over the 142 years since the ...

Disney's latest live-action remake, "Pinocchio," is now streaming on Disney Plus. The new movie stars Tom Hanks as Geppetto and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Jiminy Cricket. To watch the film, you'll need ...

Asked to name the two most important things about Pinocchio, most Americans would answer: First, his nose grows when he lies, and second, he is a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy. At ...

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 piece is drawn from “Love and Lies: An Essay on Truthfulness, Deceit, and the Growth and Care of Erotic Love,” out from FSG on February 3rd. When I was a boy I was made distinctly uncomfortable ...