MNET STARS

Good range of movies coming up on MNet channel

A good range of movies is coming up on the MNet Stars channel.

City Slickers (January 10 at 19h30) directed in 1991 by Ron Underwood and starring Billy Crystal and Jack Palance. Three 30-something friends who are all suffering from midlife crises go on a two week cattle drive from New Mexico to Colorado to bond and find themselves. City Slickers Il follows on January 17 at 19h30 in which Billy Crystal reprises his role as Mitch, a man whose life is near nigh perfect, except ... he needs a little adventure. So when he finds a treasure map in the hat of his old trail-master Curly, he ropes in his best friend and his Godfather-obsessed brother to help him go look for it. Along the way, they bump into Curly’s twin brother Duke, and discover that all that glistens may not necessarily be gold.

Superstar (January 12 at 19h30) directed in 1999 by Bruce McCulloch and starring Molly Shannon and Will Ferrell. A Catholic schoolgirl will do anything to get the kiss of her dreams from the boy of her dreams, not realising that the right boy may be right under her nose. Mary is a nerdy Catholic schoolgirl who dreams of getting a Hollywood style kiss from school jock Sky. Unfortunately, Sky doesn’t even know she exists. What’s more, he is dating the most popular girl in school. So Mary resorts to practising her kissing technique on inanimate objects – like trees.

See No Evil Hear No Evil (January 13 at 20h00) was directed in 1986 by Arthur Hiller and stars Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. When a blind man and a deaf man are accused of murder they team up to clear their names and find out why villains are so interested in them. Blind Wally and deaf Dave work at a newsstand together. One day, they “witness” a murder: Wally hears the gunshot and Dave spots a pair of shapely legs going by. But as they are the only ones at the scene of the crime, they are arrested and thrown into jail. What follows from then on is side-splitting slapstick in which the two have to merge their skills to outwit the cops and the villains, who are after a mysterious chip someone dropped into their stall.

Milk Money (January 14 at 19h35) directed in 1994 by Richard Benjamin and starring Melanie Griffith and Ed Harris. Three adolescent boys pool their money to see a naked lady, only to find said “naked lady”, a prostitute, becoming their maths tutor!

The Blue’s Brothers (January 16 at 19h30) directed in 1980 by John Landis starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. Two brothers who want to save the Catholic orphanage where they grew up leave chaos in their wake as they try and reform their R&B band.

Glory (January 18 at 19h30) directed by Edward Zwick starring Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington offers an acclaimed look at America’s Civil War as seen through the eyes of the first Northern unit of black soldiers and their inexperienced young white leader. It is a little known fact that almost 200,000 African Americans fought on the side of the North during the Civil War. This critically acclaimed film looks at the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, which consisted entirely of black volunteers, many of them former slaves.

Gungho (January 19 at 19h30) directed in 1997 by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton and Mimi Rogers. A works foreman heads for Tokyo to persuade a Japanese company to re-open a car factory in his economically-depressed home town. The Japanese agree, and send a plant manager to oversee operations in Hadleyville, Pennsylvania, but the new man's zero defect ways soon alienate the American workers, who aren't used to working 12 hour days.

Experts (January 25 at 19h30) directed in 1989 by Dave Thomas and starring John Travolta and Arye Gross. Two Manhattan nightclub owners are whisked away to an isolated spot to open a new nightclub, not realising that they are giving Russian spies training in how to blend in, in America! It’s the Fifties, and things are still chilly between Russia and America. The KGB are worried that their training techniques have become outdated. For their spies to blend in, they need to know what’s going on in America. So the KGB lures two real Americans to Nebraska on the pretext that they will be starting a Manhattan-style nightclub. This way, the Russians can get up close and personal with all things American.