THE KING’S SPEECH **½ (Comcast Movies: All Movies) Colin Firth as King George VI, afflicted with a nasty stammer until a man-of-the-people speech therapist (Geoffrey Rush) cures him in time for WWII. This art-house crowd pleaser won four Oscars (deservedly so in Firth’s case), but it’s complacent tosh that lacks the bite of “The Queen.’’ With Helena Bonham Carter. (R; runs through Nov. 25) TY BURR
PRELUDE TO A KISS **½ (Encore on Comcast) Heartfelt one-of-a-kind contemporary fairytale, with sympathetic performances by Alec Baldwin and Meg Ryan as a couple crazy in love, derailed when the bride finds herself on the short end of a body switch with an old man who kisses her at her wedding. But it lacks the magic of the stage original, which achieved degrees of otherworldliness and incandescence this benevolent but prosaic film doesn’t. (PG-13; runs through Sept. 29)
