On Demand picks

December 25, 2009

EASY VIRTUE

(Comcast Movies: All Movies) A 1925 Noel Coward play was retooled into a gorgeous-looking, dramatically arrhythmic class comedy about an American aviatrix (Jessica Biel, beautiful but miscast) shocking her stuffy British in-laws. Kristin Scott Thomas is the best thing here as the iron-willed matriarch. (PG-13; runs through Dec. 31) TY BURR

CHRISTINE

(Comcast Free Movies) Stephen King’s cherry-red 1958 Plymouth Fury, capable of smoothing out its own dents, runs amok. (R; runs through Dec. 31)

DARKMAN

(Comcast Free Movies) The Phantom of the Opera turned into the Phantom of the Laboratory as scientist Liam Neeson, mutilated by sadistic thugs, slips a cape-like coat and wide-brimmed slouch hat over his bandages and grandly revenges himself with demented flair in a series of entertainingly hyperkinetic comic-book lurches, propelled by director Sam Raimi’s motor-rhythm pop sensibility. (R; runs through Dec. 31)