B movie

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Recent Examples of B movie 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 Produced by Julie Corman, there’s more than meets the eye to this kids’ B movie and home video triumph from New World Pictures. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2024 First came Cocaine Shark, a B movie about mutant, murderous sharks (which, apparently, never did the drug). Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 19 July 2024 Lopez is unable to decide whether Atlas is a serious entry in the action canon or a B movie. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 24 May 2024 More stories Roger Corman, the independent-cinema pioneer known as the king of B movies, has died at 98. Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2024 For the rest of the decade, Corman produced and directed B movies in a number of then-popular genres: Westerns, sci-fi creature features, and the rock & roll teen pictures Corman would later translate into ‘60s counterculture fare, like 1966's The Wild Angels and 1967's The Trip. Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 May 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for B movie
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Right now, everything was riding on Dumbo, the studio’s B picture.
    Jake S. Friedman, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 July 2022
Noun
  • 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
  • In the other cofeature, Hart, 28, will fight Demond Nicholson of Laurel, Md., at 168 pounds.
    Don Steinberg, Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018
Noun
  • That spontaneous meme provides a lighthearted moment in the documentary.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 Mar. 2025
  • In the documentary, Hutchins’ friend, director Rachel Mason, goes on the record to talk about the tragedy and the experience of losing a beloved friend and colleague.
    Matt Minton, Variety, 1 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • As a result, the auricular muscles became weaker and are now considered a vestigial feature—an evolutionary leftover that’s no longer necessary but hasn’t completely disappeared.
    Clarissa Brincat, Popular Science, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Volusion has a few interesting marketing features, like its Google integration.
    Robert Anderson, PCMAG, 27 Feb. 2025

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“B movie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/B%20movie. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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