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January 26 - February 1, 2011
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WEDNESDAY (Jan 26) Film - Fever pitch on Fox Movies at 11pm

High-school teacher Ben Wrightman is charming, funny and great with kids. When he meets Lindsey Meeks, an ambitious business consultant whose spirit is as luminous as her beauty, their attraction is immediate. As Ben's beloved Bosox launch one of the most incredible seasons in baseball history, Ben and Lindsey must decide if they, as a couple, will strike out or fight to keep love alive through extra innings.

THURSDAY (Jan 27)

Film - 2012 on Showmovies at 9pm

From Roland Emmerich, director of The Day After Tomorrow and Independence Day, comes the ultimate action-adventure film, exploding with groundbreaking special effects. As the world faces a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions, cities collapse and continents crumble. 2012 brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

FRIDAY (Jan 28)

Film - Up in the Air on Showmovies at 8pm

Ryan Bingham, a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and after he's met the frequent-traveller woman of his dreams. He discovers that life is not simply about the journey alone, but about the personal connections made along the way.

SATURDAY (Jan 29)

Film - The Messenger on Showmovies at 8pm

Will Montgomery, a US Army Staff Sergeant has just returned home from Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notification service. He is partnered with fellow officer Tony Stone to bear the bad news to the loved ones of fallen soldiers. When he finds himself drawn to Olivia, to whom he has just delivered the news of her husband's death, Will's emotional detachment begins to dissolve and the film reveals itself as a surprising, humourous, moving and very human portrait of grief, friendship and survival.

SUNDAY (Jan 30)

Film - Enchanted on Fox Movies at 11pm

The tale follows the beautiful princess Giselle as she is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid, she has to wonder: can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?

MONDAY (Jan 31)

Film - Matchstick Men on Fox Movies at 11pm

Meet Roy and Frank, a couple of professional small-time con artists. What Roy, a veteran of the grift, and Frank, his ambitious protŽgŽ, are swindling these days are 'water filtration systems', bargain-basement water filters bought by unsuspecting people who pay ten times their value in order to win bogus prizes like cars, jewellery and overseas vacations - which they never collect.

TUESDAY (Feb 1)

Film - The Matador on MBC 2 at 9pm

A chance encounter between a travelling salesman and a lonely hit man triggers a strangely profound relationship which provokes each to act in ways neither would have imagined possible. Fate steps in to form a friendship between two men from irreconcilable worlds that will alter the lives of both forever.







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