Bill Murray is at the top of his Oscar bait game in Theodore Melfi’s sweet, but sometimes sickeningly so, debut, “St. Vincent.”

At the heart, it’s about blood. With Cronenberg, it’s always about blood. No other director of his stature has built a career out of such a fascination with blood, and the other assorted slick bodily fluids that course through Cronenberg’s filmography. What makes him unique, and apart from the average gorehound, is his coldly clinical presentation of the warm organic matters that make up life, and the deeper truths he uses them, slyly, as an…

(By DCist contributor Hemal Jhaveri) You loved him in Rushmore and now you can ask him whatever obscure little question you want. Of course, there’s no guarantee he’ll answer. Actor Jason Schwartzman, and director David O. Russell (Three Kings) will be online today at 12 noon for a chat on Washingtonpost.com. Schwartzman and Russell are out promoting their new movie, the existential comedy I (Heart) Huckabees, which also stars Jude Law, Dustin Hoffman, Lily Tomlin,…

Don’t know what to do this weekend? DCist has some suggestions! Check it out: FRIDAY: Seen the re-release of Donnie Darko but still not filled your cult classic quota? Fear not, Landmark’s Bethesda Row Cinema is hosting midnight screenings of such cultural signposts as The Breakfast Club (this week) and Office Space (Labor Day weekend). A quick five minute walk from the Bethesda Metro, all showings are at midnight on Friday and Saturday nights, and…