‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’ available on Comcast

(Comcast Movies and Events) In Bobcat Goldthwait’s black comedy, Robin Williams plays a failed writer who makes his son’s death look like a suicide. The death bestows popularity on both the boy and his father. As satire, the movie is half-hearted. It’s unsure how badly it wants to be in bad taste. But there is one wonderful sequence that’s like a very good music video and a handful of decent performances, notably from Daryl Sabara, who plays the son. (R; runs through Oct. 26) WESLEY MORRIS

(Encore on Comcast) Surprisingly witty and refreshing transfer of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew’’ to an American high school. It works because there’s no taming and no shrew. Julia Stiles’s Kate is a smart maverick with an icepick tongue. Heath Ledger’s cool loner Petruchio never tries to muscle her, but wins her with sensitivity and a Gene Kelly dance routine. (PG-13; runs through Dec. 3)