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The Banana Splits Movie

The Banana Splits Movie is a 2019 R-rated comedy horror film directed by Danishka Esterhazy, written by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas, in which the Hanna-Barbera children's TV characters, reimagined as animatronic robots, murder a studio audience after their show is canceled.

The Band

The Band: Canadian-American roots-rock group (Robbie Robertson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson), formerly the Hawks backing Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan; albums Music from Big Pink (1968) and The Band (1969), farewell concert The Last Waltz (1976).

The Band (album)

The Band (1969), the self-titled "Brown Album" by the Band, is the group's second album on Capitol, recorded in a Hollywood Hills pool house, reaching No. 9 and entering the National Recording Registry in 2009.

the band apart

the band apart (ザ・バンド・アパート) is a four-piece Japanese rock band formed in Tokyo in 1998, blending rock, jazz, soul, and bossa nova on its own label, asian gothic.

The Band Geeks

The Band Geeks are Richie Castellano's American rock band, started as a 2014 podcast and YouTube cover act, now Jon Anderson's touring and recording band behind True (2024) and Perpetual Change (2025).

The Band Perry

The Band Perry: American country group founded 2005 by siblings Kimberly, Reid, and Neil Perry; hits "If I Die Young" and "Better Dig Two"; albums The Band Perry (2010) and Pioneer (2013); Grammy 2015; since 2025 a duo of Kimberly Perry and Johnny Costello.

The Band Wagon

The Band Wagon is a 1953 MGM musical directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Fred Astaire as fading star Tony Hunter opposite Cyd Charisse, with songs by Dietz and Schwartz including "That's Entertainment." Not to be confused with the 1931 Broadway revue it adapts.

The Band's Visit (musical)

The Band's Visit is a 2016 musical by David Yazbek and Itamar Moses, adapted from Eran Kolirin's 2007 Israeli film about an Egyptian police orchestra stranded overnight in Bet Hatikva, Israel. It won 10 of 11 Tony Awards in 2018, including Best Musical, after Off-Broadway and Broadway runs.

The Band's Visit (زيارة الفرقة الموسيقية) (2007 film)

The Band's Visit (ביקור התזמורת; زيارة الفرقة الموسيقية) is Eran Kolirin's 2007 Israeli-French comedy-drama about an Egyptian police orchestra stranded overnight in Bet Hatikva; Cannes Coup de Coeur winner, seven Ophir Prizes, disqualified from the Oscars for English dialogue, later a Tony-winning musical.

The Bangles

The Bangles: Los Angeles all-female pop-rock band formed 1981 as the Bangs (Hoffs, the Peterson sisters, Zilinskas, later Steele), Paisley Underground act behind "Manic Monday," "Walk Like an Egyptian," and "Eternal Flame."

The Banishment (Изгнание)

The Banishment (Изгнание) is Andrey Zvyagintsev's 2007 Russian drama, adapted from William Saroyan, about a marriage shattered by a pregnancy confession. It competed at Cannes 2007, winning Lavronenko the best-actor prize.

The Banjo Lesson

The Banjo Lesson is an 1893 oil painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner showing an elderly Black man teaching a boy the banjo, held at the Hampton University Museum.

The Bank Job

The Bank Job (2008) is a British heist thriller directed by Roger Donaldson, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, starring Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows, loosely based on the unsolved 1971 Baker Street 'walkie-talkie' bank robbery with a fictional MI5 royal-photographs premise.

The Banker (2020 film)

The Banker (2020) is a George Nolfi Apple TV+ drama starring Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, and Nia Long, based on Black bankers Bernard Garrett and Joe Morris, delayed by abuse allegations against co-producer Bernard Garrett Jr.

The Banner Saga

The Banner Saga: tactical RPG trilogy by Stoic, three ex-BioWare developers, funded on Kickstarter ($723,886, 20,042 backers). Norse-inspired caravan survival, hand-drawn Eyvind Earle-style art, Austin Wintory score, choices carry across three games (2014-2018).

The Banquet (夜宴) (2006 film)

The Banquet (夜宴, Yeyan) is a 2006 Chinese martial-arts drama directed by Feng Xiaogang, freely adapted from Shakespeare's Hamlet and set in the Five Dynasties period.

The Banquet (豪门夜宴) (1991 film)

The Banquet (豪门夜宴) is a 1991 Hong Kong all-star charity comedy directed by Tsui Hark, Clifton Ko, and others, made in eight days to raise flood relief funds.

The Banquet Bug

The Banquet Bug (赴宴者) is a 2006 satirical novel by Chinese-American writer Geling Yan about a laid-off Beijing worker who poses as a journalist for banquets.

The Banquet in Blitva

The Banquet in Blitva (Banket u Blitvi) is a three-book political novel by Miroslav Krleža set in the fictional states of Blitva and Blatvija after World War I.

The Banshees of Inisherin

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) is Martin McDonagh's dark comedy-drama starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, and Barry Keoghan; set in 1923 on an Irish island during the Civil War, it earned nine Oscar nominations and won Golden Globe and BAFTA awards.

The Bar (film)

The Bar (El bar, 2017) is a Spanish-Argentine black comedy thriller by Álex de la Iglesia: strangers trapped in a Madrid bar by a sniper, premiered at Berlinale 2017, Goya-nominated, Méliès d'argent winner.

The Barbarian (wrestler)

The Barbarian (wrestler) is the ring name of Sione Havea Vailahi, a Tongan professional wrestler born 1958; a former sumo wrestler, he starred as half of the Powers of Pain with The Warlord in the WWF and as the Faces of Fear with Meng in WCW.

The Barbarian's Bride

The Barbarian's Bride (Himekishi wa Barbaroi no Yome, 姫騎士は蛮族の嫁), also known as The Warrior Princess and the Barbaric King, is a Kodansha shōnen manga by Noriaki Kotoba about captured knight Serafina de Lavillant and barbarian heir Veor; Seven Seas publishes it in English and a Jumondou TV anime aired from April 2026. Distinct from the Korean novel I Became a Barbarian's Bride.

The Barber of Seville

The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) is Rossini's 1816 two-act opera buffa, libretto by Sterbini after Beaumarchais's 1775 play, premiered at Rome's Teatro Argentina and famous for "Largo al factotum".

The Barber of Seville (play)

Beaumarchais's four-act prose comedy Le Barbier de Séville ou la Précaution inutile (1775, Comédie-Française), source of the Paisiello and Rossini operas, about Count Almaviva's rescue of Rosine from Bartholo via Figaro.

The Barber of Siberia (Сибирский цирюльник)

The Barber of Siberia (Сибирский цирюльник) is Nikita Mikhalkov's 1998 Russian-French-Italian-Czech historical melodrama about cadet Andrei Tolstoy, American Jane, and a steam sawmill, the costliest post-Soviet film of its era.

The Barbican

The Barbican: Brutalist mixed-use estate and arts centre in the City of London by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon with Ove Arup, built 1962-82, Grade II listed 2001; also a Sandwich, Kent gatehouse and Plymouth district.

The Bards of Wales

The Bards of Wales (A walesi bárdok) is an 1857 ballad by Hungarian poet János Arany retelling the legend that Edward I burned 500 Welsh bards for refusing to praise him.

The Barefoot Contessa

The Barefoot Contessa is Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1954 Technicolor drama starring Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, and Oscar winner Edmond O'Brien, telling a Spanish dancer's rise to stardom in flashback from her funeral.

The Baron in the Trees

The Baron in the Trees (Il barone rampante) is a 1957 novel by Italo Calvino about Cosimo, a nobleman who lives his whole life in the trees.