The production of “The Rocky Horror Show” that came to Harvard Square in 2019 is back beginning Oct. 16 and naturally ending with a show Oct. 31, the night of Halloween.

These reviews of what’s in theaters and streaming include doings at The Brattle Theatre (including the return of The DocYard film series) and Somerville Theatre, as well as reviews of new films “Malignant,” “Small Engine Repair” and a new take on the “Candyman” horror films.

The latest look at men at war with themselves and the rest of the world from Paul Schrader features Oscar Isaac as a poker player who learned his trade during a 10-year stretch in prison – and now finds the stakes of his freedom getting higher.

These reviews of what’s in theaters and streaming include Brattle Theatre fare such as the area premiere of Nigeria’s “Eyimofe”; seven Covid lockdown shorts grouped as “The Year of the Everlasting Storm”; Juliette Binoche in “Who You Think I Am”; a 9/11-themed “Worth”; and more.

Refreshingly playful and fluid action sequences, a relatable leading man and the best villain Marvel has produced makes the latest entry into the MCU one of its best in years.

These reviews of what’s in theaters and streaming include big-screen Brattle Theater rewinds to 2020 such as “Swallow” as well as a trip through “Tales of the Muppet Diaspora”; and new releases “Reminiscence” and “Kringle Time.”

After the Honk! festival of activist street bands went online-only during last year’s pandemic, this year’s celebration in October will look different yet again from what people have enjoyed since its launch in Somerville in 2006.

Stephen Daldry’s “Together” isn’t so much a story about pandemic life – the mundanity and built-up anxiety of the unknown – but about two people who have grown so hostile and distant in their relationship that the mere thought of enduring lockdown together seems near impossible.

After the all-virtual Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo demanded by 2020’s raging pandemic, the free event returns Saturday and Sunday in a new form defined by a more confusing Covid moment: as a Mini-MICE with room to breathe inside the open-air Starlight Square entertainment complex.

These reviews of what’s in theaters and streaming include documentaries such as “Time” and “Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power,” but also less impressive fare such as “Sweet Girl,” “Demonic,” “Confetti” and “Beckett.” But “The Night House” and star Rebecca Hall raise the horror bar.