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 ...

Perri Nemiroff is the 2025 Press Award winner at the ICG Publicists Awards. She's the senior producer at Collider where she hosts and produces the interview series, Collider Ladies Night, a show ...

In the WWII satire “Jojo Rabbit” director Taika Waititi dons a uniform and toothbrush mustache to play Adolf Hitler, the imaginary friend of 10-year-old Jojo Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis). This ...

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 ...

It goes without saying that “Jojo Rabbit” shouldn’t work. A coming-of-age comedy whose hero is a 10-year-old German boy during World War II who wants to grow up to be a Nazi? Adolf Hitler as comic ...

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 ...

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 ...

How do you solve a problem like playing Adolf Hitler in a World War II-era comedy? If you’re Taika Waititi, you do as little preparation as possible. “At first I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll do some research, ...

Jojo is ordered to demonstrate his Nazi credentials by wringing the neck of a rabbit. He can't bring himself to kill the poor thing, and runs away into the forest, humiliated. Thomasin McKenzie (left) ...

Taika Waititi and Roman Griffin Davis in "Jojo Rabbit." Kimberley French The opening scenes of “Jojo Rabbit” evoke the obsessive visual stylings of Wes Anderson, as a 10-year-old German boy, Jojo ...