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On Demand picks

January 27, 2011

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THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND (Comcast Movies: All Movies) This fictionalized account of a young Scottish medic (James McAvoy) and his early 1970s stint as Idi Amin’s personal physician turns a gruesome chapter in recent African history into a trashy potboiler. For a cautionary tale, the movie, like the doctor, is a little too enamored with its dictator. And Forest Whitaker’s charismatic work as Amin has everything but a psychology. (R; runs through March 7) WESLEY MORRIS

MARCH OF THE PENGUINS (Comcast Movies: All Movies) This touching and sensitively made family documentary presents the unique breeding cycle of Antarctic emperor penguins, majestic little creatures with long white torsos, talon-like beaks, and an enduring need to reproduce. Every spring, they waddle and slide on their bellies for miles to a wide-open space where hundreds of other penguins have gathered to look for a mate in the coldest place on earth. Narrated by Morgan Freeman. (G; runs through March 7) WESLEY MORRIS

TALK RADIO (Comcast Movies: Free Movies) Hard-hitting film version of Eric Bogosian’s monologue-turned-play about the media addiction of a corrosive, self-loathing talk radio host. Like the play, the film has a few structural problems, but Bogosian’s performance is a scathing and often brilliant tour de force. (R; runs through April 1)

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