Jack TV definitely commits itself in entertaining its viewers to the highest, leaving their worries behind and living life to the fullest with its entertainment blocks: “Comedyville,” “Crazy Cam,” “WWE on JACK TV,” “LXB,” “SACK (Superb Animated Comedy Knockouts),” “Sketches & Stand-up,” and Jack’s “Handpicked.”

Jack TV’s wonderful roster of programs includes the award winning comedies “30 Rock,” “The Office,” “The Big Bang Theory,” and “My Name Is Earl.” Laugh your heart out with the animated comedy of “The Simpsons,” “Family Guy” and “American Dad.”

Late Night entertainment is one of Jack TV’s specialties with soon-to-be “Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien” and “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.” Jack TV is also home to the best skit comedy shows ever made with the award winning Saturday Night Live and the highly comedic MAD TV.
New programs that will certainly entertain include “The Cleveland Show,” “Futurama” and “Kathy Griffin: Straight To Hell.”

Mai Castro performs at Bykes @ Lancaster

Come in and hear the music that starts your feet moving and echos the secret beat of your heart. Every Friday, Bykes @ Lancaster pulsates with this music genre as Mai Castro and her band perform. Mai doesn’t just sing it, she feels and lives it, and that she says is the essence of Latin music.
Latin music sort of hypnotizes you, and feeling its sound, you really end up dancing. Mai enthuses, “You can’t belt out Latin music without the emotion required of them. You must emote and that takes a lot of heart and spontaneity.”

Mai was first a dancer (way back during her school days), then a model having won the best in long gown award in Bb. Pilipinas beauty pageant a few summers ago, before becoming a singer. This combination makes her presence on stage, hypnotizing, indeed!

Friday nights at Bykes is for everyone who loves Latin music and for those who love dancing salsa, samba, chachacha, rumba, mambo, bachata, merengue, la cumbia and the like, as well.
Bykes is at the mezzanine floor of Lancaster Hotel, 622 Shaw Blvd, Mandaluyong City. Bykes opens at 2 p.m. for those who like afternoon dancing, Monday to Saturday. Flinstones plays on Wednesday nights, and Behind Closed Doors on Thursday and Saturday nights. Monday is Milonga nights for lovers of Argentine tango.

‘Baler’ out on video

“Baler,” the biggest and most awarded movie in last year’s Metro Manila Film Festival, finally makes its way from the big screen to your TV screen as it becomes available on video beginning March 18.
A tale of an overwhelming love between a young Filipina (Anne Curtis) and a Spanish-Filipino soldier (Jericho Rosales), “Baler” is set in the backdrop of 1898 wartime action between a 57-man Rifle Battalion of the Spanish military and the Filipino forces, more popularly known as the Seige of Baler.
Anne Curtis and Jericho Rosales team up for the first time as two star-crossed lovers in the movie. It is Viva Films’ official entry to the 2008 Metro Manila Film Festival and swept several major awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay and Best Actress, the first-ever-acting honor given to Anne.

While “Baler” is a story of conflict, betrayal, suffering, self-preservation, selfishness, obstinacy, and self-interest, it is also a story of heroism, courage, love of freedom, patriotism, endurance, chivalry, humanity and above all, it also tells about a noble story of love in time of war.

The film is also led by a powerhouse cast featuring Phillip Salvador, Michael de Mesa, Leo Martinez, Joel Torre, Carlo Aquino, Nikki Bacolod, Mark Bautista, Ryan Eigenmann, Baron Geisler, Bernard Palanca, Allen Dizon, DJ Durano, Arvee Quizon and Jao Mapa. The theme song “Ngayon, Bukas at Kailanman,” which celebrates the power of an enduring love, is sung by Pop Princess Sarah Geronimo.

Experience the grandeur, mystery and beauty of the town Baler on video. It will be available on VCD at R275.00, on Regular DVD at R600.00, and on Limited Edition DVD at R1,000.00.

March shows at Hard Rock Café

Hard Rock Café (HRC) opens summer season with a series of special shows featuring an assembly of some of today’s top bands and performers.

Leading the group is soul siren Nina in a solo performance on Mar. 21, 9:30 p.m. Music buffs can look forward to an evening of beautiful music as Nina dishes out today’s hottest chart-toppers and standard favorites as well as selected tracks from her current full-length studio album under Sony BMG “Nina Sings the Hits of Dianne Warren.”

Other performers at HRC are pop band Freestyle (Mar. 27), pop/rock band Kenyo (Mar. 28), Zoo (Sundays), Hi-Way 69 (Mondays), Tres with Kaji (Tuesdays), Area One (Wednesdays), Mocha Girls (Thursdays), and Silk (Fridays and Saturdays).

This series of musical events is in line with HRC’s music for life campaign – an advocacy that aims to bring top-notch musical artists closer and more accessible to Filipinos.

Ghostbusters II on TV5’s 5MAX Movies

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Hollywood comedy classic “Ghostbusters” this year, TV5’s 5MAX Movies has on this week’s line-up the top-grossing sequel “Ghostbusters II,” together with action thriller adventures “The Mexican,” “Hard Target,” and “The Last of the Mohicans.”

Marking the first screen pairing for Hollywood mega-stars Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts is the action-comedy-romance “The Mexican,” showing today, March 18, about a clumsy criminal who has got himself and her girlfriend in danger in his quest for an allegedly cursed gun.

Showing on March 19 is Christopher Reeve’s last directorial project—“The Brooke Ellison Story,” a made-for-TV drama based on a true story about a handicapped girl who goes against all odds to succeed in life. The award-winning historical epic “The Last of the Mohicans,” starring Daniel Day-Lewis and set in 1757 French and Indian War, airs on March 20.

The ghost busters return with twice the comedy and adventure in the sequel to the classic sci-fi comedy “Ghostbusters II” on March 21, starring Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Ernie Hudson, and Harold Ramis. The film is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, coinciding with the filming of the upcoming third sequel.

A stray dog becomes the PeeWee soccer league’s star player in the heart-warming comedy movie “Soccer Dog,” rolling over your screens on March 22.
All these action-adventure thrillers are set to shake your TV screens this week on 5MAX Movies every 9 p.m. on TV5.