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Canadian director Katrin Bowen follows her first feature Amazon Falls (Viff 2010) with an anti-romantic comedy, about love and all those crazy and obsessive behaviors associated with it.

Random Acts of Romance, which had its world premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival 2012, revolves around the lives of two couples whose relationships are falling apart.

Newly weds, David(Robert Moloney) and Holly(Laura Bertram) continue to live their monotonous married life rather than admit they aren’t happy and Dianne(Amanda Tapping) and Matt(Zak Santiago), have been together for 5 years yet Matt still doesn’t know what she drinks and Dianne is still the sole financial supporter while Matt is working on his online degree. When Dianne gives Matt an ultimatum, Matt decides he must sacrifice to save the relationship resulting in a surprising turn of events and a chance for Holly to put an end to her unhappiness.

The quirky characters,...

Calumet City, Illinois: A waitress, Jane (Ingrid Nilson) on the phone to her sister, Olivia (Tristen Leffler) says she needs the truth, which she gets from everyone in bucketfuls. She takes a gun and phones her sister who calls her a freak and tells her to kill herself, which she does. Dean (Jensen Ackles) tells Bobby (Jim Beaver) about Sam (Jared Padalecki) and how he threw him to the vampire. Castiel (Misha Collins) isn't answering his calls. He knew Sam was different from the outset. Bobby says he'll hit the books and not to "shoot him just yet." Sam needs to know what he is first. Sam shows him his paper reporting four suicides out of nowhere. Bobby: "Get in the car, he's your case" is the advice Bobby gives Dean. Dean notices the cat calendar on Olivia's wall and a card with a horn on it, a musical horn.

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Christopher Heyerdahl is back in Hell on Wheels tonight at 10 pm on AMC, in episode 1x03, "A New Birth of Freedom." Pizquita has the promotional photos and Warming Glow has a region-locked preview. Hop over to watch it if you can. Here is what they say about tonight's episode:

Hell on Wheels (AMC, Sunday) — I’m sticking with “Hell on Wheels” right now mostly for the scenery-chewing performances by Colm Meaney and Christopher Heyerdahl, who plays The Swede. His monologue about Andersonville (embedded below) is probably the highlight of the show through two episodes, but in terms of calculated menace, The Swede is still several steps behind Michael Shannon’s Agent Van Alden on “Boardwalk Empire.”Entertainment Heartbeat has a new interview with Sasha Roiz, mostly about Grimm. Snippets below, read the rest at the link.

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Chicago – In our latest comedy/drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 40 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “50/50” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick!

“50/50” also stars Anjelica Huston, Bryce Dallas Howard, Marie Avgeropoulos, Julia Benson, Lauren Miller, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Philip Baker Hall, Will Reiser, Laura Bertram, Sugar Lyn Beard, Luisa D’Oliveira and Andrew Airlie from director Jonathan Levine and writer Will Reiser.

The film opens on Sept. 30, 2011. To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “50/50” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This advance screening is on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011 at 7 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and win can be found beneath the graphic below.

The movie poster for “50/50” with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Anna Kendrick.

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Here at JustPressPlay, we pride ourselves to a certain standard. One of those is making sure reviews are of a minimum length so as to actually say something worth reading. But Control Alt Delete poses a tremendous challenge to that, as everything that you could ever need to know about this film is contained in the following sentence: This film is about a man who has sexual intercourse with his computer. Not in a metaphysical, philosophical sort of way, but in an actual, physical, he-puts-bubble-wrap-in-the-computer-tower-and inserts-himself-into-it way. Feel free to take a moment and think that over, because absolutely nothing else in this review is going to change that fact.

Lewis (Tyler Labine) is your fairly typical movie loser: he’s overweight, he’s shy, and he has a dead-end software programming in the weeks leading up to Y2K. Most importantly, he has trouble getting it up for his...

A few days ago, E1 Entertainment, a Canadian distributor, confirmed on its YouTube account that it will distribute Cameron Labine's Control Alt Delete, a comedy that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival two years ago. However, no release date has been announced for this film.

Synopsis:

It's 1999 and lovable computer geek Lewis Henderson (Tyler Labine) is dumped by his long time girlfriend Sarah (Laura Bertram). So he does what any young urban slacker would: work less and watch Internet porn more. With the added pressures of his buggy Y2K software and repeated romantic rejection, Lewis discovers that the website images no longer turn him on and thus begins his strangely satisfying sexual relationship with the machine itself.

But all honeymoons must end and Lewis’s eye starts to wander from hisdependable home desktop. His desire for newer, sexier models grows until hefinds himself copulating with co-worker’s CPUs.