Combine the exuberant vocals and dancing of "Glee" with the cross-checking ferocity of Slap Shot (Paul Newman, 1976) and you get this irresistibly charming coming-of-age tale from our friends in the frozen north.

The Opening Night film at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, Score: A Hockey Musical may be the most unabashedly populist Canadian film to come along in years. With the Philadelphia Flyers entering the playoff race for the Lord Stanley Cup, we couldn't come up with a better way to celebrate this city's love for the game of hockey... besides winning a Stanley Cup, of course. Uniting Canada’s national obsession with the kitsch of classic Hollywood musicals, this is “Hockey Night” in Busby Berkeley Land. Boasting young love, on-ice drama and cameos that range from Olivia Newton-John to Nelly Furtado to various Canadian icons, director Michael McGowan’s latest is a playful delight. As he did in his festival and box office hit One Week, McGowan integrates iconic elements of Canadiana into his winning story with flair and passion. More than just a hockey musical, Score is a wry celebration of the qualities that define Canadians -- kindness, worldliness, self-effacement and an ability to poke fun at themselves. --

Hockey Mom
( US, 2010, Adam Scheiner )

Gilbert Cerise, the host of the Canadian show, “Real Hockey Stories”, travels to the youth hockey hot bed of, Buffalo, New York to do an investigative story on the psychology of a hockey mother. “Hockey Mom,” is the creation of recent Temple University FMA graduate, Adam Scheiner.