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The new releases are remarkably family-friendly this week, with a bevy of PG pictures, the most highly regarded of which proves that last week's hanging trumpet theme is still echoing, because Rocky Balboa has triumphant music to spare, and another training montage ends an Oscar-started franchise on a high note. Eragon is a dragons and magic epic of much lower intensity than the PG-13 Lord of the Rings, based on a book by a fifteen year old writer, and we have legendary story of a journey, a couple, a manger, and childbirth: The Nativity Story. The G-rated film of the bunch, Everyone's Hero, is an animated baseball picture directed by Christopher Reeves.

There's no shortage of heavier material, though-- the high profile Blood Diamond puts DiCaprio on screen (after his appearance in the Oscar winning The Departed) during the civil war in Sergio Leone. Come Early Morning is the story of Ashley Judd (De-Lovely, Kiss the Girls) as a 30-something woman looking for love in a complex world, and the French The Bridesmaid, a passionate thriller that evokes traces of Hitchcock. Last, for the horror fans, John Carpenter (Halloween) makes his second entry into the Masters of Horrors series, following up Cigarette Burns with Pro-Life.

We also have a large stock of new non-fiction material. HBO has put out their documentary series Addiction, and we have My Country, My Country, which The Village Voice calls "The definitive non-fiction film about the occupation of Iraq." To break with the heavy themes-- Comedy Central has released their Roast of William Shatner, and we've brought in a horror retrospective on the slasher genre, Going to Pieces.