B-movie

English Alternative forms en B movie Etymology Analogous to the B-side (i.e. the second side, the primary side being designated A) of a musical recording. Noun en cinema A low-budget motion picture, especially one with poor production values. en B-picture en Z-movie w:Bruce Weber Feb. 12, 2002 Theater Review: Straight Play or Musical, It Turns Into a Mystery https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/12/theater/theater-review-straight-play-or-musical-it-turns-into-a-mystery.html E 5 But as it is, the script is so riddled with juvenalia, borrowed character types and misguided flights of poetic fancy that it feels like the work of a teenager who has seen too many B movies. https://web.archive.org/web/20150527205555/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/12/theater/theater-review-straight-play-or-musical-it-turns-into-a-mystery.html Lisa Allardice Brooklyn’s bard: Paul Auster’s tricksy fiction captivated a generation 1 May 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/may/01/brooklyns-bard-paul-austers-tricksy-fiction-captivated-a-generation Full of sly jokes, riddles and metafictional high-jinks, his work had the voltage of a thriller (offering a rare voice of disapproval, the New Yorker critic James Wood accused his works of pedalling a “B-movie atmosphere”). https://web.archive.org/web/20240525033147/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/may/01/brooklyns-bard-paul-austers-tricksy-fiction-captivated-a-generation Derived terms en B-moviesque B-movieish Related terms en midnight movie Translations Chinese: Mandarin: cmn B級片 B jípiàn French: fr série B f Japanese: ja B級映画 B kyū eiga Korean: ko B급 영화 Swedish: sv B-film c, sv B-rulle c