2005 December HDnet / HDnet Movies Highlights

[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Smallville
Recruit
In an effort to recruit Clark for the university's football team, Metropolis University sends its star player, Geoff Johns, to show Clark the advantages of attending Met U.

9:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Summerland
Yummy Mummy
Without her partner Susannah, Ava has a hard time finding the self-assurance to run a successful fashion business and likewise, finds it difficult to muster the confidence to take her relationship with Simon to the next level.

10:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Higher Definition
Noah Baumbach, Katrina Holden Bronson
Pop-culture critic Robert Wilonsky talks with Noah Baumbach, director of the new film The Squid and the Whale with Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels and director Katrina Holden Bronson stops by to discuss her new film, Daltry Calhoun, starring Johnny Knoxville.

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[Sean Mota]

Moscow Boys Choir(R) - Christmas Around the World I watched it today and it was delightful to see this. It takes a lot of effort and coordination to make a group of people like this singing. Not a whole lot of instruments but the voices made up for it. No female singers which is rare these days.

 

[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
HDNet World Report
Working Within the Law
World Report cameras are along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where efforts are being made to tweak local laws to help protect the gambling industry from another blow from Mother Nature. And, in New Mexico, and various other states, prisons are becoming a source of unexpected employment for various industries, including telemarketing and other telephone services.

9:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Debate
Evolution vs. Intelligent Design
Proponents of intelligent design are promoting a change in school curriculums around the country to require teachers to tell students that there are flaws in the theory of evolution, and that intelligent design is another way to explain the formation of the universe. What is the concept of intelligent design, and does it have any scientific merit? Guests include: Mathew Staver â?" President of Liberty Counsel vs. Reverend Barry Lyn â?" executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State

9:30 PM ET / 6:30 PM PT * Premiere *
Deadline!
This week's unique news and events like you have never seen them before.

10:00 PM ET / 7:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Face 2 Face with Roy Firestone
Ed Reed
As one of the most formidable defensive backs in the NFL, Ed Reed was named the 2004 Defensive Player of the Year. Firestone had a chance to catch up with the Baltimore Raven and discuss the current 2005 season, playing along side Ray Lewis, and his life outside the game.

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Art House Cinema *
Winged Migration
2003 - G
A documentary shot over the course of three years, using revolutionary filming techniques, to show the migratory patterns of birds spanning oceans and entire continents.

9:30 PM ET / 6:30 PM PT * Art House Cinema/Digital Original *
Russian Ark
2002 - NR
In a high definition movie filmed in one continuous shot, a French aristocrat takes a journey through the Hermitage exploring Russian history.

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[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Blind Justice
Under the Gun
While out to dinner with Christie, Dunbar's off-duty gun is stolen in a fight. A young prep school kid is murdered while working as a drug informant.

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[Sean Mota]

Glory 4.0 stars out 5. Great Epic! Very emotional battle and the faces of those who knew what was waiting. The 54 did show courage and enthusiasm to the last minute. I felt that the 54 only wanted to fight because everyone else thought that they could not.

 

[Sean Mota]

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9:00 PM ET / 6:00 PM PT * LIVE! *
NHL on HDNet
Minnesota Wild @ Colorado Avalanche

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[Sean Mota]

Heartbreak Ridge 1 star out of 5. What an awful movie? This movie falls into the category of movies that should have never been made. Who was the smart one who let this awful story to be put in the big screen.

 

[Sean Mota]

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8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT * Premiere *
Greg the Bunny
The Singing Mailman
Dottie gets blackmailed into hiring an untalented aspiring actor for a mailman role on "Sweetknuckle Junction."

8:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM PT * Premiere *
Get Out!
Dunk Island, Australia
Come along with the Get Out! girls as they discover Dunk Island and its beautiful beaches, have some fun in the sun on a cruising catamaran and get wild on wakeboards.

9:30 PM ET / 6:30 PM PT * Premiere *
HDNet Boxing
>From the Manhattan Center
Featured fighters include undefeated Curtis "Showtime" Stevens, Emmanuel Clottey, Gary "The Kid" Stark Jr. and NY State Cruiserweight Champ "Punchin" Pat Nwamu.​

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7:15 PM ET / 4:15 PM PT
A Soldier's Story
1984 - PG
An unpopular sargeant is murdered at a military base in the South. A black army attorney is sent to investigate, finding racism in and outside the corps.

11:00 PM ET / 8:00 PM PT * Premiere/Chiller Theater *
The Silence Of The Lambs
1991 - R
With a serial killer on the loose, FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to collect a psychological profile from another serial killer--Dr. Hannibal Lecter. His clues lead her in pursuit of the killer and force her to face her traumatic childhood.

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[dfergie]

Watching the Russians are coming... saw it years ago... forgot all the Character Actors that were in it... and one of my Favorites Jonathan Winters