Writer director Taika Waititi (THOR: RAGNAROK, HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE), brings his signature style of humor and pathos to his latest film, JOJO RABBIT, a World War II satire that follows a lonely ...

Director Taika Waititi's new movie is an unusual, though not unheard of take on Nazi-era Germany. It's a very dark comedy. I talked to Waititi earlier this week, and I asked him about the main ...

How do you find levity in one of the darkest periods in human history? How could an actor today portray Adolf Hitler as a silly man, sharing his outlandish ideas with casual enthusiasm? Is it possible ...

Writer-director Taika Waititi’s “Jojo Rabbit,” which opened Friday, might look like a cinematic showcase for Adolf Hitler’s would-be comedic side. But the self-described “anti-hate satire” based on ...

Unlikely though it sounds, we have a need to laugh at Adolf Hitler, on the movie screen if nowhere else. Some of our greatest comedy directors, from Charles Chaplin (“The Great Dictator”) to Ernst ...

Jojo Rabbit centers on a 10-year-old boy who joins the Hitler Youth. Writer and director Waititi, who is from New Zealand, is half-Jewish and half-Maori. He plays the boy's imaginary friend, Hitler.

Following the path set out by Charlie Chaplin (The Great Dictator) and Mel Brooks (The Producers), writer/director Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok) parodies the Third Reich in Jojo Rabbit. Described as ...

For the first half or so of the fantastic “Jojo Rabbit,” Taika Waititi cooks up a delicious serving of absurdism. The writer-director is at the controls of a World War II satire that plays like a Wes ...

With the real world in literal flames and global politics riven by a re-emergence of far-right nationalism, Taika Waititi’s newest sounds like treacherous territory for the Thor: Ragnorok and What We ...

Let’s just say making a movie about a child whose imaginary best friend is Adolf Hitler wasn't an easy sell. Back in 2011, “it was already a hard film to even describe to my friends when I was writing ...

After appearing in Leave No Trace to much critical acclaim last year, Thomasin McKenzie came to Jojo Rabbit excited by the notion of learning from one of the industry’s most unconventional voices. In ...