It’s the character of Pinocchio himself that causes more problems. When Walt Disney oversaw the story’s adaptation from the original 1880s fiction, he insisted on making the puppet more likeable.

Pinocchio Unstrung directors Rhys Frake-Waterfield and Scott Jeffrey, the duo behind Blood and Honey, enlisted makeup effects artist Todd Masters to create a practical Pinocchio puppet. Masters is ...

Mostly, "Pinocchio" itself washes ashore into a kind of no-man's land -- too uninspired to bring anything fresh to the material, dutifully playing like a pallid redo of the 1940 classic, arguably ...

He can make a puppet of anybody really; all Vogel needs is a few photographs. And when he pulls the strings, they come to life. Paper mache and tubes and string. That a little imagination and ...