MUMBAI: Ira Dubey and Neha Sareen, the popular Hollywood movie critics from PIX?the premium English movie channel from Multi Screen Media Pvt Ltd give their take on the latest movie releases on ?Chicks on Flicks? this Friday, November 6, 8.30 pm on PIX.

The duo reviews Hollywood?s latest action, crime, drama, mystery, thriller??Whiteout? by director Dominic Sena, the film revolves around U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko who tracks a killer in Antarctica, as the sun is about to set for six months.

Followed by the movie dedicated to all the MJ fans around the world, ?This is it?, pays tribute to the legendary singer Micheal Jackson. Directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Micheal Jackson himself, the movie set to feature Jackson like one has never seen before. The film is a compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London. 

On the latest DVD releases is ?State of Play? based on the story of two investigative reporters Cal McCaffrey (Russell Crow) and Della Frye (Rachel McAdams) who reports for the Washington Post. They dive deeper and deeper into the death of an assistant to Representative Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck). An affair between the two comes out, as well as two dead bodies at the hands of a highly trained killer in an alley, and a privatized military organization that could be pulling all the strings. Nothing is what it seems, no one is safe, and around every turn there is new evidence to be found out.

Next on the card is ?The Uninvited?, starring Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, David Strathairn and Elizabeth Banks. After the death of her ill mother in a fire, the young teenager Anna tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental institution for treatment. Ten months later, her psychiatrist Dr. Silberling, discharges her telling that she has resolved her issues. Her father and successful writer, Steven, brings her back home in an isolated mansion nearby the coast. Anna finds that her mother‘s former nurse, Rachel Summers, is her stepmother now. Anna meets her beloved sister, Alex. She discovers that Steven has not delivered the letters and CDs that Alex had sent to her. As time moves on, Anna is haunted by ghosts and she believes that Rachel killed her mother. Alex and Anna decide to look for evidences to prove that Rachel is the murderer.

Catch Ira Dubey and Neha Sareen on ?Chicks on Flicks? as the duo directs fans and audience on which movie to ?Catch it? or ?Trash it? this Friday, November 6, 2009 at 8.30 pm only on PIX.
 

MUMBAI: The Golfing world heads to Shanghai, and for Asia , playing host to a World Golf Championships event is massive! The event, which was called the HSBC Champions, has gained World Golf Championships status, and has been elevated to this new level. Ten Sports will beam live pictures from the event, which promises to showcase some of the best golfing talent in the world. (Please check schedule) The WGC events are considered to be just one step below the `Majors?.

2009 will be earmarked as a historic year for Asian Golf, not only for playing a big part in the globalization of the game, but also in producing world class champions. 37 year old Korean YE Yang became the first Asian player to win a major event, when he won the US PGA Championship at Hazeltine in August, warding off stiff competition, including world no. 1 Tiger Woods. Three years ago he won the event as a relative unknown, but this time around, as he attempts to become the first player to win the WGC-HSBC Champions twice, all eyes will be on him.

Alongside Yang, the Asian challenge for the WGC-HSBC Champions will be bolstered by an impressive cast of champions from across the continent. Japan will provide the precocious talent of 18 year old Ryo Ishikawa alongside established stars, Daisuke Maruyama, Shingo Katayama and Yuta Ikeda. The experienced Jeev Milkha Singh ? a winner of 18 tournaments around the globe ? spearheads the Indian challenge while another seasoned campaigner, Thongchai Jaidee, leads the quest to take the title to Thailand. The locals will come out in large numbers to spur on the Asians as also their local heroes, the Chinese duo of Zhang Lian-wei and his fellow countryman Liang Wen-chong.

Sergio Garcia won the HSBC Champions last year and will look to win it again at the Sheshan International Golf Club. He will be joined by an elite group of golfers spearheaded by world number one, Tiger Woods and the ever-charismatic Phil Mickelson. There is no doubt that the fans at the WGC HSBC Champions will be treated to magical golf.

MUMBAI: Fever 104 FM, Mumbai?s popular radio station, is the offical radio partner for the most awaited movie of the season ? ?Kurbaan?. As a part of this association, the lead actor of the movie, Saif Ali Khan recently made an exclusive appearance at Fever 104 FM?s Mumbai studios. RJ Harssh, host of Dhinchak Mornings & the Fever No.1 show interviewed Saif about his role in the movie and his experience of being paired opposite real-life lady love Kareena Kapoor in a romantic role in reel life.

Fever 104 FM is also running a unique ?Meet & Greet? contest for its listeners in Delhi & Mumbai whereby listeners will be challenged to ?kurbaan? something to meet their favorite actor, Saif Ali Khan. The best callers will be taken on-air and be asked to deposit that ‘thing‘ with Fever. If their ?kurbaani? is intangible then the radio station will get friends or family members to track the listener?s sacrifice Winners of the challenge will be given a lifetime opportunity to meet Saif Ali Khan in person. This exciting contest will begin in Delhi from 9th to 12th November, 09 & in Mumbai from 12th to 18th November, 09.

Commenting on the initiative, Neeraj Chaturvedi, Mumbai Station Head, Fever 104 says, ?We are extremely happy to host Saif Ali Khan in our studios. Giving our listeners the chance to meet one of the hottest Khans of our Bollywood Industry is extremely gratifying. Aligned with innovative programming, it is our deliberate endeavor at Fever 104 FM to create lifetime and exciting opportunities for our listeners so as to give them the most engaging and entertaining experiences.?

MUMBAI: The valley of Kashmir needs no introduction. Its snow-clad mountains, sparkling rivers, placid lakes, beautiful gardens and hard-to-resist food make it a tourist?s delight.

This week, join anchor Aditya Bal as he eats his way through the streets of Srinagar, cooks at Chaar Chinar (the floating island on Dal Lake) and sails across the Dal Lake towards the setting sun.

Tune in to ?Chakh Le India!? for all this and more on November 4, 2009, Wednesday at 10:00 am only on NDTV Good Times
 

MUMBAI: Bollywood singer and actor, Himesh Reshamiyya, is all set to don a new hat ? that of a Radio Mirchi RJ, for seven whole days!

Himesh, who plays RJ Vivaan in his to be released film ?RADIO? will now be heard RJ?ing on his own show ?Mann ka Radio? from Sunday 1st November to Saturday 7th November only on Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM! RJ Himesh has been trained by none other than the talented and versatile Radio Mirchi RJs.

?Mann ka Radio with RJ Vivaan? will be on air from 5:00 to 6:00pm everyday in the week of November 1 ? 7, 2009. You can hear him talk about various topics - hobbies, styling, today?s youth, relationships, to him singing on air and playing out his favourite tracks.

The character of RJ Vivaan in the movie Radio is a Radio Mirchi RJ and just like a Radio Mirchi RJ he is full of zest, entertaining and loveable!

Himesh Reshammiya entered the industry as a music director, then moved on to become a singer, then actor. His third tryst with the industry will now be that of a Radio Jockey, and going from his past popularity and success, it is surely something to look out for.

So catch RJ Himesh exclusively on Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM everyday from 1st ? 7th November, 5 ? 6 pm. It surely promises to be hot!!!

An adorable bear with moves that could put martial artistes to shame? a demoniac creature with girlfriend and identity ? to fight for humankind or not ? issues? an estranged couple romancing lost treasure to discover love again? a speed maniac?s desire, and trials and travails, to create Mach 5 on wheels? a gay butler and his philanthropic lady employer? blast from the past? that?s your score this November, only on HBO. Pull out that blanket and tuck yourself in to beat the winter, and enjoy Hollywood?s top-of-the-rung, only on HBO.

HBO BLOCKBUSTER OF THE MONTH
(ON NOVEMBER 27, 2009 - FRIDAY)

?I just ate, so I‘m still digesting, so my kung fu may not be as good as later on.?

Sorry?! Food and kung fu?? Gotta be it, when you ?ave a kickin?, boxin?, smashin? and buttin? Giant Panda. You got a Kung Fu Panda comin? your way.

Riproaring, silly, memorable, hugely entertaining, the Oscar-nominated Kung Fu Panda premieres on the HBO Blockbuster of the Month on 27th November at 9:00pm. Academy Award winners Dustin Hoffman and Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan (Yup! He?s there) and Lucy Liu are among those lending their voices and high-octane energy to their characters in this animated comedy.

Kung Fu Panda is Po, the adorable and enthusiastic but clumsy, kung fu-freak of a giant panda. He makes viewers respond in awe as he combines the characteristics of a cuddly animal with high- jumping, fist-flying, round-house kicking martial arts. The kids just love him; he enraptures grown-ups no less. Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill a prophecy, Po?s dreams become reality when he gets an opportunity to learn the art of kung fu. But can he really become a kung fu master? Po puts his heart and girth into the task, and the unlikely hero finds his greatest weaknesses turn out to be his greatest strengths.

Don?t miss this inventive, lickety-split mad fun of slapstick, replete with luminous production design, only on HBO on 27th November at 9:00pm. Treat yourself to Kung Fu Panda.

HBO SEE IT FIRST
(A PREMIERE EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT, AT 9PM)

He is just a demon raised to be the saviour against the forces of darkness; just a red mammoth with an attitude, who wants to be accepted as a normal person by the humans he protects. But the government wishes to keep Hellboy a secret.

Portrayed by Golden Globe Award winner Ron Perlman, Hellboy continues with his struggle as HBO See It First?s exclusive array of movies begins with Oscar-nominated Hellboy II: The Golden Army on November 7. Along With his team, including love interest Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), Abe Sapien (Doug Jones), Hellboy protects the world from any dark threats. Hellboy II: The Golden Army picks up their story when the team finds people have vanished from an auction. This forms the spine of the movie and is the igniting factor of a war between the monsters of the dark underworld and humans.

With a signature blend of action, humor, and character-based spectacle, the saga of the world?s toughest hero from hell continues to unfold in Hellboy II: The Golden Army. In this epic vision of imagination from Oscar-nominated director Guilerno del Toro (Pan?s Labyrinth, Hellboy), the demonic superhero takes on the Golden Army to save the Earth from a marauding army of creatures, before hell ? quite literally ? breaks loose!

Watch Hellboy II: The Golden Army premiere on HBO See It First at 9pm on November 7.

Donna?s senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, one of magic, beauty, and love. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night turns from magic to murder there is only one man who could be responsible, the man she thought was gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and survive their prom bight.

Catch the mystery thriller, Prom Night, on 14th November starring American actors Brittany Snow and Johnathon Schaech, only on HBO.

They have been a magnetic and endearing pair in the past. Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey team up once again in Fool?s Gold as the funloving, married couple rekindling their romantic life while searching for a lost treasure.

Fool?s Gold is part romantic comedy, part deep-sea diving adventure, and lots of multi-hued and touching emotions. The Fool?s Gold premiere is a must-see, only on HBO on 21st November.

Speed is his name and speed is all he is about. For, Speed Racer is a natural behind the wheel, aggressive, instinctive and fearless. But what tests his mettle are not the tracks he races but the cut-throat, corruptible world of car racing itself, fixed by ruthless tycoons. Combining heartfelt family humour and ground-breaking visual effects, Speed Racer (with Emile Hirsh in the lead role) is an American live action film adaptation of the 1960s Japanese anime series of the same name. SpeedRacer (Emile Hirsch) is an 18-year-old whose life and love has always been racing. When Speed steps on the track, it?s not just a race. It?s an adrenaline-fueled, high-speed charge to the finish!
Ultimate action comes your way with Speed Racer premiering on November 28 only on HBO. Don?t miss it.

HBO ORIGINAL MOVIE OF THE MONTH

m Hailed as the perfect casting of the title roles, Susan Sarandon, in the role of Doris Duke, and Ralph Fiennes as Bernard Lafferty bring to life the semi-factual and intriguing examination of the relationship between real-life philanthropist, environmental conservationist and patron of the arts and her butler in Bernard and Doris! An HBO Films presentation, Bernard and Doris! is subtle, constantly engaging and yet, almost never loses sight of the comic elements. Sarandon excels as the charming, isolated Doris Duke, heiress of a tobacco tycoon, who, after a string of failed marriages, reposts her faith in her homosexual help, Bernard. Catch the Susan Sarandon-Ralph Fiennes comedy drama on 24th November only on HBO!

November Chillz continues on HBO as the channel brings back the Golden Globe and Emmy Award- winning television series TrueBlood with the premiere of Season 2! The new TrueBlood has supremely spooky plot twists to run an icy finger down your spine. The Season 2 of TrueBlood premiere picks up from at the exact moment we left off in Season 1, beginning November 1, 2009 after the 9pm movie; thereafter every Sunday after the 9pm movie.

Season 2 not only takes the love story forward with the demonic and ?bloodcurdlingly? dark funny twists, but also introduces sub-plots involving the anti-vampire Fellowship of the Sun Church; Sookie?s slow-witted brother Jason?s indoctrination into the church; expanded role of Maryann Forrester, the powerful supernatural creature, who gradually gains control over the people of Bon Temps.

The HBO movie extravaganza has more, on HBO Friday Blockbusters and HBO Sunday Superhits.