Movies Now kicks off Planet Action festival

MUMBAI: English movie channel Movies Now has kicked off the Planet Action festival from 14 November.

Action movies will air Monday - Thursday at 11pm.

Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell are trying to bust the drug baron Jack Palance‘s operations in ‘Tango and Cash‘. In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, a small group of adventurous American soldiers (George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube) set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who desperately need their help in the intriguing blend of action, drama and comedy -Three Kings.

Clive Owen stars in an action thriller ‘Shoot ‘Em Up‘ as Mr. Smith, a gun-toting fearless man with a hair trigger and an unknown past. In Passenger 57, John Cutter (played by Wesley Snipes) is grieving over the death of his wife at the hands of an armed robber and blaming himself for her death. The flight he is on is hijacked by a bunch of kidnappers. Snipes puts his special training and martial arts skills to good use to combat the kidnappers.

Meanwhile, Jet Li plays an ex-officer from Hong Kong, who finds himself torn between his love and his desire for justice against the men who killed his brother in ‘Romeo Must Die‘. ‘Fair Game‘ stars Naomi Watts as a CIA agent whose cover was blown.