These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include The Fifties at Warners playing at The Brattle, Tom Hanks in Kendall and sci-fi “Divinity” in Somerville, as well as new works “Priscilla” by Sofia Coppola and “The Loch Ness Horror” by, well, it doesn’t matter.

These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include an anniversary run for “Farewell My Concubine,” works from the Revolutions per Minute and Boston Jewish Film festivals, extreme sports in Somerville and new works such as “When Evil Lurks,” “Rustin” and “The Persian Version.”

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s an Illuminated Block Party, “Rocky Horror,” a Poetry Brothel and lots of other Halloween fun, Roxane Gay and Dallas Goldtooth, the Thrill Kill Kult and the exhibit “Day One DNA: 50 Years in Hiphop Culture.”

These looks at what’s on screen in the coming week include the annual GlobeDocs Film Festival, including “Sorry/Not Sorry” about scandal around the comedian Louis C.K. and “The Pigeon Tunnel” by Errol Morris, as well as big-screen scares – many curated by local gore film fanatic Julia Marchese in her Halloween Hullabaloo 3.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, plant a Miyawaki Forest in Somerville, take in a “Dark Exhalation” of sci-fi opera or Sleeping Weazel’s Experimental Cabaret, celebrate Yuck Fest, eat a foraged banquet, hear the “Confessions of a Candy Snatcher” and gasp at Cirque of the Dead.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the Honk! festival of activist street bands and Oktoberfest in Harvard Square, Devendra Banhart and Eugene Mirman, Kristen Emack talking about her “Cousins” photos and the arrival of “Sweeney Todd” in a new theater.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s laughs at a “Best of the Boston Comedy Festival” showcase, action at a Smash the Patriarchy! Abortion Fundraiser and plenty of music, drama, art, literature and science in between.

The second-oldest house in Cambridge has at least three ghost stories associated with it: the widow in the sheet; the weeping girl; and the five Hessian soldiers.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Halloween stays strong well into November with a screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a Hawkins Halloween party, singing and music – but there’s also a Cat Film Festival, writing on a Ransomware Hunting Team and Shakespeare comedy and tragedy.

These looks at what’s on screens in the coming week include more Independent Film Festival Boston selections at The Brattle; “Inland Empire” at the Harvard Film Archive and more area scares to wrap up October; the Jeff Bridges film “The Last Picture Show” in Kendall; and the bonkers streaming film, “Arranged Marriage.”