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B-television is the term used by the German media scholar Heidemarie Schumacher in her article "From the True, the Good, the Beautiful to the Truly Beautiful Goods—audience identification strategies on German 'B-Television' programs" as an analogy to "B-movie" to characterize the development of German commercial television, which adopted "the ...
Brutalised bodies, scattered guts, trails of blood – Aditya Nimbalkar’s movie based on the Nithari serial murders of 2006 is designed to shock." [17] Rishabh Suri of Hindustan Times writes in his review that "It’s the typical, done-to-death montage of news articles. I strongly feel it hampers the film's flow, and doesn't go with the ...
The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957), from Universal, was the final installment of the last "B series" put out by a major studio.. In 1948, a Supreme Court ruling in a federal antitrust suit against the leading Hollywood studios, the so-called Big Five, outlawed block booking and led to the divestiture of the majors' theater chains over the next few years.
Cinematic exhibition of the B movie, defined as a relatively low-cost genre film, has declined substantially from the early 1980s to the present.Spurred by the historic success of several big-budget movies with B-style themes beginning in the mid-1970s, the major Hollywood studios moved progressively into the production of A-grade films in genres that had long been low-budget territory.
The 1960s and 1970s marked the rise of exploitation-style independent B movies; films which were mostly made without the support of Hollywood's major film studios.As censorship pressures lifted in the early 1960s, the low-budget end of the American motion picture industry increasingly incorporated the sort of sexual and violent elements long associated with so-called ‘exploitation’ films.
In the end, “Star Trek: Section 31” falls into an odd netherland between OK series episode and stand-alone feature, too big to pass as one thing, too frivolous to work as the other.
In the galaxy of Gene Rodenberry’s 59-year-old “Star Trek” franchise, humanity enjoys an idyllic, utopian, primary-colored future in which a non-lethal phaser and a persuasive argument can ...
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