This is FRESH AIR. Screenwriter and director Taika Waititi earned a cult following with comedies like "What We Do In The Shadows" and "Hunt For The Wilderpeople." Then he directed the hit Marvel ...

Tragic plot twists usually come in heavy dramas or shocking thrillers, yet the saddest from the 2010s actually happened in a funny film.

Why Taika Waititi thinks his Nazi comedy ‘Jojo Rabbit’ is exactly what society needs right now Director Taika Waititi's new comedy 'Jojo Rabbit' skirts the line between offbeat and offensive to ...

TORONTO -- It's just a few hours before "Jojo Rabbit" will make its world premiere and writer-director Taika Waititi is still figuring out how to talk about it. "I still don't even really know how to ...

I normally don’t enter spaces actively conscious of my identity as a grandchild of a Holocaust survivor. However, I was highly aware of my Judaism as I nervously entered the theater to see Jojo Rabbit ...