Early in “Judy & Punch,” a wife who’s just helped her husband perform a vigorously slap-happy puppet show in a desultory corner of 17th century England poses the question, “Do you think the show ...

If “Being John Malkovich” taught us anything, it’s that marriage and puppets just don’t mix. Even behind closed doors and dropped curtains, some men always need to feel like they’re pulling the ...

Whimsy colors the story from the start—even before the start, considering that the first title card, written out in antique-style script, announces the setting to be a town called Seaside, which is ...