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Recent Examples of B movie
Estelle was a fan of more sophisticated shows like The Twilight Zone, not this B movie selection.
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Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
Jaws Births The Blockbuster Before Jaws, the summer months were a Hollywood dead zone reserved for B movies or ignored entirely.
—Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
Initially the studio treated the film as just another B movie.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 20 June 2025
Tamblyn and his bandmates provided music for and appeared in several B movies and exploitation films of the era, including Get Yourself a College Girl and the notorious Riot on Sunset Strip, which features the band playing the title song in a raucous underground club.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2025
And Answers For Saturday, March 8 Cult classics often come in the form of horror flicks, thrillers and B movies.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Moore’s second big-screen film role comes in a schlock-horror B movie (C movie?) about Dr. Paul Deen (Michael Shoob), who is traversing the postapocalyptic United States while incubating a deadly parasite.
—Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
Burton devoured everything from horror films to Ray Harryhausen animations, science fiction B movies and Japanese Kaiju monster films.
—Tacita Quinn, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
Jaws Births The Blockbuster Before Jaws, the summer months were a Hollywood dead zone reserved for B movies or ignored entirely.
—Mark Hughes, Forbes.com, 21 June 2025
Initially the studio treated the film as just another B movie.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 20 June 2025
Tamblyn and his bandmates provided music for and appeared in several B movies and exploitation films of the era, including Get Yourself a College Girl and the notorious Riot on Sunset Strip, which features the band playing the title song in a raucous underground club.
—Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 24 Mar. 2025
And Answers For Saturday, March 8 Cult classics often come in the form of horror flicks, thrillers and B movies.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Moore’s second big-screen film role comes in a schlock-horror B movie (C movie?) about Dr. Paul Deen (Michael Shoob), who is traversing the postapocalyptic United States while incubating a deadly parasite.
—Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
Burton devoured everything from horror films to Ray Harryhausen animations, science fiction B movies and Japanese Kaiju monster films.
—Tacita Quinn, CNN, 31 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for B movie
Noun
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Olivia Rodrigo went vintage for Halloween this year, opting to dress up as the iconic animated cartoon character, Betty Boop.—
Rania Aniftos,
Billboard,
31 Oct. 2022
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To the narcissist, all other people are cardboard cutouts, two-dimensional animated cartoon characters, or symbols.—
Olivia Muenter,
Woman's Day,
14 June 2022
Noun
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Once upon a time, movie houses were full of all sorts of pictures — big pictures, little pictures, A pictures, B pictures, smart pictures, silly pictures.—
Robert Lloyd,
Boston Herald,
7 Aug. 2025
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Nevertheless, old movies did creep onto TV through the 1950s, beginning with B pictures on local stations and gradually progressing to A pictures in network prime time.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Aug. 2023
Noun
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Ugas, who holds the W.B.A. title that the organization stripped from Pacquiao last year because of his inactivity, was scheduled to face Cristian Maidana in the cofeature bout but was promoted to the main event when Spence withdrew.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2021
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In the other cofeature, Hart, 28, will fight Demond Nicholson of Laurel, Md., at 168 pounds.—
Don Steinberg,
Philly.com,
26 Apr. 2018
Noun
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The 106-minute documentary, directed and produced by Swift, was filmed at Aaron Dessner's secluded Long Pond Studio in New York's Hudson Valley.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
13 Oct. 2025
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The documentary follows the relationship between his father, Jerry Stiller, and his mother, Anne Meara, who performed together as the iconic comedy duo, Stiller and Meara.—
Lori A Bashian,
FOXNews.com,
13 Oct. 2025
Noun
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New episodes drop every Wednesday and feature interviews with artists and personalities like Lainey Wilson, Hardy, Charley Crockett, Gavin Adcock, Amanda Shires, Margo Price, Dusty Slay, Lukas Nelson, Ashley Monroe, Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor, and Clever.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
15 Oct. 2025
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The doc feature records a news report on Taj Erlander, Swedish prime minister during much of Wallenberg’s imprisonment, admitting as much, conceding that his government had failed one of its greatest citizens by not pressing hard for his release.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
15 Oct. 2025
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