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Half-Wits Holiday (1947)

The Three Stooges’ “Half-Wits Holiday” is one of the saddest comedies ever made, not so much because of its content – which tries but mostly fails at being amusing – but because of its troubled production history. On May 6, 1946, the final day of the four-day shoot, Curly Howard suffered a massive stroke during the production that effectively ended his career. Curly’s health had been in decline since mid-1944 and it is believed that he endured several mini-strokes prior to making this short.
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Together [Fantasia 2025]

A couple moves out to the country and finds themselves growing closer… too close, literally, in Together, Michael Shanks’s melding of body-horror, relationship drama, with a dusting of folk horror.  Together was presented as part of the Fantasia International Film Festival and is also in wide release. 

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