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And now we come to a particularly delicious sleaze-noir from 1948 called
Hullabaloo 2008
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I am not sure I can fully do justice to this film in mere writing. Wings Hauser sores to new heights of delightful madness in this sleaze noir/noir-sploitation PM Entertainment produced, and Wings written and directed, masterpiece.
Living to Die — The After Movie Diner Jon Cross 2025
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Blow Out, the singular moment in which the split in the screen between De Palma’s obsessions and his aesthetics, between the politics of his early films and the sleaze-noir terror of his erotic thrillers finally fell, merging in a high-low monument of cinematic purity that interrogates our need for comfort from movie narratives while offering that same succor in its devastatingly beautiful irresolution.
A Shot in the Dark - Bright Wall/Dark Room Travis Woods 2022
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