Read our review of family musical *Pinocchio*, now in performances at Shakespeare's Globe to 4 January 2026. Read more theatre reviews on LondonTheatre.co.uk.

On Feb. 23, 1940, Walt Disney brought 'Pinocchio' to theaters nationwide. By THR Staff On Feb. 23, 1940, Walt Disney brought Pinocchio to theaters nationwide. The classic animated feature went on to ...

In a year of movie delays and shuffled release slates, it seems odd that we've had two outings for Pinocchio, the lying puppet who wants to become a real boy. Here's what the House of Mouse cut from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio is an acclaimed new film that brings out the darkness in this 150-year-old children's tale, writes Nicholas Barber. Two major Pinocchio films premiered this year, but it ...

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 ...

Lemony Snicket’s first introduction to Pinocchio was not the animated Disney film, but the original, 19th century fairy tale by Italian author Carlo Collodi. Snicket, the bestselling writer behind A ...

Forget what you know from the cartoon. The 19th-century story, now in a new translation, was a rallying cry for universal education and Italian nationhood “Once upon a time, there was a piece of wood.

Of the half-dozen or so films that turned Walt Disney, in the public’s mind, from the father of Mickey Mouse to the creator of the animated fairy-tale feature—thereby making his work a fixture in the ...

The young heroes of Carlo Collodi's classic fantasy Pinocchio and Roald Dahl's 1988 children's novel Matilda may not seem too alike at first: One is a wooden puppet who becomes a real boy and finds he ...

Andrew McGowan studied at Bowdoin College and the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. Hs has served on programming and judicial teams for several film festivals, and has written about cinema ...