There's a lot of Oscar power in North Country: there's Charlize Theron, who won for Monster; there's Frances McDormand, a winner for Fargo; and there's Sissy Spacek, who took home the trophy for Coal Miner's Daughter. That can mean trouble, but not this time.

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I have been a fan of director Tony Scott's work probably since 1983's The Hunger and his debut blockbuster films, Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop 2. The man knows how to capture the essence, style, and majesty of a story, even if it's a studio film.

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Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) seemingly has it all. He's got a successful job designing shoes and the result of 8 long years of work is about to hit the market. He's dating the boss's assistant and while he's missed the last few family occasions, things on the surface at least are all going well.

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Have you ever been to Elizabethtown? I have. Jerry Maguire lives there. You remember the famous line from that film don't you? "You had me at Elizabethtown."

Director Cameron Crowe shows his sensitive side in Elizabethtown by having his star travel home to Elizabethtown, Kentucky for his father's funeral.

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What would truly-defined Canadian cinema be if it wasn't quirky? What indeed?

Vaguely comedic and dark, The French Guy touches a nerve with a story about a woman who has surgery to remove a brain tumor. She is released too soon and has problems every time she sneezes.

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Many sexually-explicit activities occur in this film, but I think that it's the strong introspective nature of the characters and their circumstances that gives Lie with Me its heart of gold.

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Edmonton-born director Hiller was on hand to present this screening of his 1976 film Silver Streak. Featuring the first of many pairings between Wilder and Pryor, here they act in this story about love and murder on a train, and off the train, and on and off again, and again.

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Meyer was the first master of sexploitation flicks, movies whose cast involved the busty, buxom, and big-breasted actresses of that era. Well Russ went to that great porn ranch in the sky last year, but he left us a laundry list of one-track-minded pics as his legacy, including this real gem.

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The EIFF does not have to be all about art films and world cinema, apparently. Sometimes it can have movies with light themes, expressed in insouciance, and doused in butter.

Welcome to Alchemy, a modern version of that classic 80s flick Electric Dreams.

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When I first saw the trailer for this film, I cringed. The hair on the back of my neck stood up and I could feel the sugar flow off the screen and into my lap. For most guys, this is what a trailer for a "chick flick" does to us. I was no exception.

I will admit here in print that I do like some "chick flicks", but the really good and intelligent ones.

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