FEMME FATALE ★★½
(Comcast Movie Collections: Action) Beautiful women in sunglasses, gratuitous ripoffs of movie history, insanely farfetched plots — it’s good to have Brian De Palma back in the saddle. Rebecca Romijn-Stamos plays a soulless, double-crossing bad girl who takes part in a heist, impersonates a young widow, marries a D.C. bigwig, and finds time to lead Antonio Banderas around by the nose. Ridiculous in the extreme, it’s still great trash
moviemaking. (R; runs through 2022)
MEGAMIND ★★★
(MAX on Comcast) How do you make a big entertainment about dissatisfaction? Hire Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, and Brad Pitt to do the voices, then ask them to enjoy themselves. The comical evil-genius title character (Ferrell) gets bored after vanquishing his flamboyantly noble archenemy (Pitt). The bliss of ‘‘Megamind’’ is the way it pursues a solution for the tired problems of both superheroes and movies about them. (PG; runs through June 30)
DAZED AND CONFUSED ★★★½
(Comcast Movie Collections: School’s Out) Richard Linklater’s endearing look at a bunch of Texas high schoolers on the last night of school in 1976 is sweet, sad, and spacy as they cruise around toking and joking as if waiting for somebody to show up with cue cards telling them what to do next. Jason London’s star jock and Wiley Wiggins’s entering freshman head a cast of kids who get to you as they try to figure out how to be cool while surrounded by a nothingness that includes their own view of their future. Solving the narrative problem by using an elliptical, semi-documentary style, juggling and cross-cutting characters Altman-style, Linklater has come up with a honey of a high school movie, up there with “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “American Graffiti,” and “Pump Up the Volume.” (R; runs through July 9)