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Blue Jean

Blue Jean (2022) is Georgia Oakley's debut British drama, starring Rosy McEwen as a closeted lesbian PE teacher in 1988 Newcastle under Section 28. It won the Venice People's Choice Award, four BIFAs, and a BAFTA nomination, grossing $741,644 worldwide.

Blue Juice

Blue Juice (1995) is a British Cornish surf comedy-drama directed by Carl Prechezer, starring Sean Pertwee, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Ewan McGregor; Film4 production, UK release September 15, 1995, US gross $4,535.

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening is a 2012 Lifetime TV movie, a modern teen retelling of Stacpoole's 1908 novel, starring Indiana Evans and Brenton Thwaites as students stranded on a Caribbean island; Metascore 51, IMDb 5.3/10.

Blue Lantern Corps

Blue Lantern Corps: DC Comics ring-wielders powered by hope, created by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver, debuting in Green Lantern Vol. 4 #25 (January 2008). Founded by exiled Guardians Ganthet and Sayd on Odym; famous for supercharging green rings but needing a Green Lantern nearby to reach full power.

Blue Lard

Blue Lard is a 1999 postmodernist novel by Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin, about clones of Russian writers and a hunted substance called blue lard.

Blue Lights (2023 TV series)

Blue Lights is a BBC One police drama created by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, following three PSNI probationers in Belfast from 27 March 2023. Produced by Two Cities Television and Gallagher Films, it won the 2025 BAFTA for Best Drama Series and ran four series.

Blue Lines

Blue Lines, Massive Attack's debut album released 8 April 1991 on Virgin Records, is regarded as the first trip-hop album, defining the Bristol sound with Unfinished Sympathy and Safe from Harm.

Blue Lips (Schoolboy Q album)

Blue Lips (stylized BLUE LIPS) is ScHoolboy Q's sixth studio album, released March 1, 2024 on TDE/Interscope; an 18-track, 59-minute follow-up to 2019's CrasH Talk, titled for speechlessness, with a Metacritic Metascore of 87.

Blue Lock (ブルーロック)

Blue Lock (ブルーロック) is a Japanese soccer manga by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and Yusuke Nomura, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since 2018, in which 300 high school forwards compete in an elimination project to create Japan's egoist ace striker; adapted into anime, stage plays, and a 2026 live-action film.

Blue Lock season 2

Blue Lock season 2 (Blue Lock vs. U-20 Japan, ブルーロック VS. U-20 JAPAN) is the 14-episode second season of 8bit's Blue Lock anime, airing October-December 2024 on TV Asahi's IMAnimation block and adapting the U-20 match arc.

Blue Man Group

Blue Man Group is a New York-created theatrical show and company founded by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman, and Phil Stanton: three mute, bald, cobalt-blue performers mixing percussion, paint, comedy, and audience participation. Opened at the Astor Place Theatre in 1991, acquired by Cirque du Soleil in 2017, with recent closures in New York, Chicago, and Boston.

Blue Marvel

Blue Marvel (Adam Bernard Brashear) is a Marvel Comics superhero, a Cornell-educated physicist and Korean War Marine veteran turned living antimatter reactor, created by Kevin Grevioux and Mat Broome, debuting in Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel #1 (November 2008); his 1962 identity reveal forced retirement under JFK.

Blue Medusa

Blue Medusa is an all-female heavy metal band formed in 2026 in Los Angeles by former Arch Enemy vocalist Alissa White-Gluz with guitarists Alyssa Day and Dani Sophia; unsigned, metalcore/melodic death metal, singles Checkmate, Flying Monkey, Crocodile.

Blue Monday (New Order song)

Blue Monday, New Order's 1983 Factory Records 12-inch single (FAC 73), 7:29 long with a Peter Saville floppy-disk sleeve; the biggest-selling 12-inch single ever, over 3 million sold, losing Factory 10p per copy.

Blue Moon (1934 song)

Blue Moon (1934 song), Rodgers and Hart standard, originally "Prayer" for Jean Harlow, then "The Bad in Every Man" in Manhattan Melodrama; final lyric by Jack Robbins request, copyrighted Dec 5, 1934; Marcels 1961 number one.

Blue Moon (2025 film)

Blue Moon (2025) is Richard Linklater's biographical comedy-drama, also called a Lorenz Hart biopic, starring Ethan Hawke as the lyricist at Sardi's on Oklahoma!'s 1943 opening night; Oscar-nominated, Sony Pictures Classics release.

Blue Moon (beer)

Blue Moon (Blue Moon Belgian White), a 5.4% ABV unfiltered Belgian-style witbier with Valencia orange peel and coriander, created in 1995 by Keith Villa at Coors' Sandlot Brewery, Denver; owned by MillerCoors/Molson Coors, the largest US craft-style brand.

Blue Morpho (album)

Blue Morpho (album): Ed O'Brien's second solo album and first under his own name, released 22 May 2026 on Transgressive; 7 tracks, 38 minutes, produced by Paul Epworth, made from therapy improvisations after a depression, distinct from the 2012 jazz album of the same title.

Blue Mosque, Tabriz

The Blue Mosque (Masjed-e kabud) is a 15th-century mosque in Tabriz, Iran, completed in 1465 under the Qara Qoyunlu dynasty and famed for its blue tilework.

Blue Mountain State

Blue Mountain State: Spike TV comedy series (2010-2011, 3 seasons, 39 episodes) about freshmen at a fictional Pennsylvania college football powerhouse, the Mountain Goats; created by Eric Falconer and Chris Romano, starring Darin Brooks and Alan Ritchson.

Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland

Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland is a 2016 American sports comedy film, the Kickstarter-funded sequel to the Spike series Blue Mountain State, directed by Lev L. Spiro, starring Alan Ritchson as NFL player Thad Castle, released February 2, 2016 by Lionsgate.

Blue Moves

Blue Moves, Elton John's eleventh studio album (Rocket Records, October 22, 1976), a double LP recorded in Toronto, produced by Gus Dudgeon; peaked at No. 3 UK/US, RIAA Platinum, led by 'Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word'.

Blue Movie

Blue Movie is Andy Warhol's 1969 drama with Viva and Louis Waldon, the first theatrically released picture to depict actual sexual intercourse; originally titled Fuck, it was ruled obscene in New York. Distinct from the 1971 Dutch film and 2026 Blue Film.

Blue Murder Motel

Blue Murder Motel is a 2026 New Zealand cozy crime series (TVNZ 1, premiered January 18, 2026) created by Kate McDermott and Steven Zanoski, starring Michala Banas and Brett Tucker as retired Sydney detectives Vinny and Cole Coleman, 8 episodes, NZ On Air funded.

Blue Mustang

Blue Mustang, officially Mustang/Mesteño and nicknamed Blucifer, is a 32-foot, 9,000-pound blue cast-fiberglass horse with glowing red eyes by Luis Jiménez at Denver International Airport, installed 2008; a section fell on and killed Jiménez in 2006.

Blue Neighbourhood

Blue Neighbourhood is Troye Sivan's debut album, released December 4, 2015 on Capitol; synth-pop about first love and coming out, with singles WILD and YOUTH, platinum in the US and Australia, reissued as Ten Years On in 2026.

Blue note

Blue note: flattened 3rd, 5th, or 7th scale degree (b5 in the minor-pentatonic blues scale, b3 in the major) sung or played slightly flat or bent, characteristic of blues, jazz, and soul.

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records: American jazz label founded January 6, 1939, in New York by German immigrants Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, known for the Van Gelder-engineered Blue Note sound, Reid Miles covers, and Universal Music Group ownership.

Blue Note Records discography

Blue Note Records discography: catalog of the jazz label founded by Alfred Lion in New York, January 6, 1939, organized by series from the 1500 and 4000 LPs through United Artists BN-LA numbers to current releases and Tone Poet and Classic reissue lines.

Blue Nun

Blue Nun is a German wine brand created in 1921 by H. Sichel Söhne of Mainz, the best-known Liebfraumilch, peaking in the 1980s with 24 million bottles yearly, now owned by Langguth and sold as Authentic White and other wines.