There is a large variety to choose from this weekend. The film that has been getting a lot of buzz, not to mention some good reviews has been Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders’ fun family animation film, How to Train Your Dragon with voices by Jay Baruchel and America Ferrera. The film is about a young Viking who wants to hunt dragons but instead ends up the owner of a one. While trying to ”train” his dragon, he learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.

One film that definitely stood out this week is Chloe. Directed by Atom Egoyan, this drama is about a woman who hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating.  The film is filled with twists and turns and is not a typical film you see every week — plus you get to see Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried in a steamy sex scene together.

Check out what’s coming out this week:

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One of the big name auteur’s at this year’s Santa Barbara Film Festival is Atom Egoyan (not in person), with his latest Chloe. A sexual drama that bears a dubious reputation from its round on the festival circuit last year, it was adapted from 2003′s star-studded Nathalie (Depardieu, Ardent, Béart) and turns out to have been described quite accurately as a misfire.

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The Toronto International Film Festival has once again come and gone. Over the short festival days, some films came, saw, and conquered the audiences, while others were left lifeless in the event’s wake. For movies that were strong enough to bear the criticism, we’ve created a Review Round-up of the top ten buzzed about films of the year. We’ve got everything from Michael Caine‘s geriatric vigilante in Harry Brown to George Clooney’s goat killing Jedi in The Men Who Stare at Goats.

Let’s take a look at the best and the worst that TIFF 2009 had to offer…

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