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Nobody wanted to make the film about a boy and his imaginary friend the Führer: "People say it’s divisive. Where I come from that’s a good thing." By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment Reporter Pretty ...

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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 ...

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“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.

LOOSELY ADAPTED from “Caging Skies”, Christine Leunens’s acclaimed novel, “Jojo Rabbit” tells the story of a boy in the Hitler Youth in the last months of the second world war. It may seem to be a ...

For Tom Eagles, the editing of Jojo Rabbit felt like a precarious tightrope walk, all the way through. “We knew that we had to establish humor up front, because humor [is] an integral part of Taika ...

Taika Waititi’s unconventional World War II film Jojo Rabbit is a combination of drama and comedy, and its most emotional moment is what happens to Jojo Rabbit'smom. Following the success of Thor: ...

It’s impossible to address the challenge of Nazi satire without considering “The Day the Clown Cried.” Jerry Lewis’ misbegotten 1972 production found the comedian directing himself as a Jewish ...