M-NET ACTION HIGHLIGHTS

M-Net Action is an adrenaline-driven channel on DStv, featuring action-packed movies and series.

January 9 at 20h30: Murder on the Orient Express (2009) directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Alfred Molina and Meredith Baxter. A modern remake of Agatha Christie's classic whodunit in which renowned sleuth Hercule Poirot is drawn into a baffling murder case while travelling on the luxury Orient Express. Just almost everyone in the train had a motive for murder.

January 14 at 20h00: Chinatown (1974) directed by Roman Polanski and starring Jack Nicholson and Roman Polanski. Set in drought-ridden '30s L.A., a divorce specializing private detective gets his nose rearranged after sticking it into the connivings of a family-loving mogul and his mysterious daughter.

January 15 at 20h00: Chill Factor (1999) directed by Hugh Johnson and starring Cuba Gooding jnr and Skeet Ulrich. A terrorist group in the U.S. steals a chemical weapon and it's up to Tim, a fishing buddy of the guilt-stricken scientist who made the weapon, and Arlo, an ice cream truck driver who happened to be in the wrong truck at the wrong time, to steal the weapon and transport it safely to a military base in Montana.

This month focuses on the Star Trek series with a different production every Wednesday at 20h30.