Quentin Tarantino recently appeared on The Empire Film Podcast with Edgar Wright and spoke about how the talk show scene in Todd Phillips' Joker is "subversion on a massive level."

After The Muppet Show, which ended its run in 1981 after 5 seasons, 150 episodes and countless guest stars, Jim Henson’s gaggle of charming characters (and the ceaselessly talented puppeteers behind them) made their way to movie theaters, animation, theme parks, the internet, and (several times) back to television, always experimenting but always trying to recapture the essential magic that made the original Muppet Show such a phenomenon (as evidenced by the amount of vaudevillian, “let’s put on a show” plotlines many of these projects centered around). But in recent years, it has been even harder for the …

From creator/writer/director/executive producer Alex Garland, the limited series Devs, which is available to stream at FX on Hulu, follows software engineer Lily Chan (Sonoya Mizuno), as she tries to investigate the ultra-secretive development division of the cutting-edge tech company that employers her, following the murder of her boyfriend (Karl Glusman). As Lily gets in deeper and the extent of Amaya CEO Forest’s (Nick Offerman) commitment to the Devs project is pushed to the limit, the success of the company’s covert work is threatened, which could result in dire consequences for everyone. During this …

2019 was a big year for subversive superhero fare, with Joker, Watchmen and Umbrella Academy. But The Boys represented the biggest departure.

The Starship Troopers shower scene might be infamous for the nudity involved, but viewers can miss the subversive intent of the scene.

Welcome to The Witching Hour! Collider’s horror podcast, co-created and co-hosted by Editor and Horror Lead Haleigh Foutch and Senior Editorial Producer Perri Nemiroff. On this week's episode, we welcome Brightburn director David Yarovesky to talk about his superhero horror movie and his journey into filmmaking. During the wide-ranging chat, Yarovesky tells some incredible stories about how he met Rick Baker, Dick Miller, and Wes Craven before he got his start, the benefits of skipping film school, his collaborations with James Gunn, making a provocative superhero film, and more. Listen to the latest episode of …

In “Suicide Squad,” the Season 6 finale of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Detective Jake Peralta (Andy Samberg) lays out an elaborate scheme that includes a kidnapping, a false investigation, and a stealthily planted bug, all to take down the corrupt Commissioner of the New York Police Department. For the kidnapping portion of the plan, his first instinct is to wear ski masks, but then he changes his mind mid-narrative. “Actually, scratch that. We’re not gonna use ski masks; we’ll use cool rubber masks!” he declares, his eyes alight. “Ooh, we should be the ladies of The First Wives …

Few storytellers exist between the lines like Claire Denis. The French filmmaker thrives in the grimy, grey areas of the human experience that make such fertile breeding ground for genre cinema, complex characters, and taboo -- a subject at the heart of her English-language debut, the subversive sci-fi drama High Life. Set on a spacecraft where former death row inmates volunteer for a suicide mission straight into a black hole, the film slips through time as they fly through space. The non-linear narrative centers on Monte (Robert Pattinson), who we first meet patching up the side of a …