DCist’s highly subjective and hardly comprehensive guide to the most interesting movies playing around town in the coming week. Repertory: Halloween Screams at the AFI Perhaps my favorite part of this time of year is the fact that on any given night, you can turn on the television, and somewhere on the dial you can find a movie about things that go bump in the night, creatures from the depths of Hell, or your garden…

Authors celebrate Thanksgiving, too, so the pickings are slim this week. As always, if you know of an event not picked for this column, leave some details in the comments. Enjoy the holiday! MONDAY Fritz Stern comes to Politics and Prose to talk about the Five Germanys I Have Known. The cute one, the quiet one, the weird one, the sexy one and the troublemaker. It’s like an N*SYNC with a history of genocide. 5015…

The weekly Ist wrap-up is written by Seattlest editor Dan Gonsiorowski. LAist tracks an award-winning TV writer who worked on Good Times to a homeless shelter and sees a Little Old Lady get a jaywalking ticket because she can’t get across fast enough (in the same post!). Poets invade Metro and an LAist contributor’s new book asks WWJB. Gothamist gets down with the immigration rally and their readers want to be heard. The anniversary of…

From DCist contributor Catherine Andrews: Hopelessly cynical hipster kids can get a dose of feel-good, irony-free music tonight with the Polyphonic Spree concert, going on at the 9:30 Club (815 V St. NW). Twenty-five bandmates, dressed in technicolor floor-length robes, indoctrinate audience members into their wonderful world of musical puppies and rainbows. The Texas-based group, building on the success of their first album, “The Beginning Stages of …”, has found some critical success with…