Sometimes it's not about what's on the page but what's left unsaid. The Oscar-nominated writer-directors (Johnson for best original screenplay, Waititi for adapted screenplay) reveal how they pulled ...

While watching “Jojo Rabbit” (2019), the audience is asked to laugh at — and sometimes, along with — the film’s main character, Jojo “Rabbit” Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis). Jojo is a devout Adolf ...

Comedian and filmmaker Mel Brooks once said that only Jews can make jokes about the Holocaust. But, there’s a problem with that statement: it comes from Mel Brooks. So, I’m not sure if he was joking ...

New Zealand-born filmmaker Taika Waititi's brilliant, humane and daring black comedy "Jojo Rabbit" opens Friday. An imaginative and deeply lonely 10-year-old German lad (Jojo), in a tour de force from ...

“Jojo Rabbit,” Taika Waititi’s uber-ironic black comedy about the last days of Nazi Germany, has its wacky, subversive pleasures, as anyone familiar with the New Zealand-born filmmaker’s work knows.

Viewers familiar with the antic wit of Taika Waititi — from such comedies as “What We Do in the Shadows,” “Hunt for the Wilderpeople” and “Thor: Ragnarok” — might wonder what he’ll next pull out of ...

Taika Waititi and Stephen Merchant break down a scene from their new film "JoJo Rabbit." They discuss the complications with melding comedic undertones and drama while trying to present the events of ...