Sunday, December 25th 2011

6:00am
Movie: "Santa's Slay" (2005) (TV)
Bill Goldberg, Douglas Smith
Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an Angel, so he becomes the giver of toys and happiness. But when the bet is off, he returns to his evil ways.

7:20am
Movie: "Sherlock Holmes" (2009)
Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.

9:30am
Movie: "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (2000)
Jim Carey, Taylor Momsen
Big budget remake of the classic cartoon about a creature intent on stealing Christmas.

11:30am
Movie: "Doc Hollywood" (1991)
Michael J Fox, Julie Warner
A young doctor causes a traffic accident in a small town and is sentenced to work for some days at the town hospital.

1:30pm
Movie: "Medicine Man" (1992)
Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco
An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close to a cure for cancer. When the assistant turns out to be a "mere woman," he rejects her help. Meanwhile the bulldozers get closer to the area in which they are conducting research, and they eventually learn to work together, and begin falling in love.

3:30pm
Movie: "Fire Down Below" (1997)
Steven Seagal, Kris Kristofferson
Environmental protection agent Jack Taggart is fighting big business types led by Orin Hanner who are dumping toxic waste somewhere in the Kentucky hills region. They also killed his fellow agent and are killing the nature of the region.

5:30pm
Movie: "The Woman in Red" (1984)
Gene Wilder, Kelly LeBrock
On his way to work, Teddy spots Charlotte - an incredibly beautiful Woman in Red. He really wants to meet her - but what would his wife say?

7:00pm
Movie: "Night Shift" (1982)
Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton
A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour complains about the loss of her pimp. His partner, upon hearing the situation, suggests that they fill that opening themselves using the morgue at night as their brothel. Against his better judgement, he gets talked into the idea, only to find that it's more than his boss that has objections to this bit of entrepreneurship.

9:00pm
Movie: "Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot" (1992)
Sylvestor Stallone, Estelle Getty
A tough detective's mother comes to visit him and begins to meddle in his life and career.

10:30pm
Movie: "Running Scared" (1986)
Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal
Danny and Ray are two street wise cops in Chicago. When they are almost killed on a case, they are forced to take a vacation by their captain. Key West offers a substantial change over frozen Chicago. They decide to quit and open a bar in Key West. Upon returning, they find that Julio, the drug dealer who nearly killed them has made bail and is trying to complete a giant drug deal. They decide to complete their case against Julio before quitting, but then begin being careful. Their effectiveness drops as they find they can't operate the way they did before if they don't have the edge of a long time commitment.

12:30am
Movie: "Eight Men Out" (1988)
John Cusack, Clifton James
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.

2:30am
Movie: "On Deadly Ground" (1990)
Steven Seagal, Michael Caine
Mystical martial artist/environmental agent takes on a ruthless oil corporation.

4:30am
Movie: "The Glimmer Man" (1996)
Steven Seagal, Keenen Ivory Wayans
Two cops, played by Seagal and Wayans, are forced to work together to solve a chain of mysterious killings by a killer nicknamed "The Family Man"

6:00am