Sampling the sandwiches at Port Bean Cafe leaves these diners full of good food and good feelings.

“I don’t ever want to be like my parents,” a teenage Cindy (Michelle Williams) tells her aged grandmother in the new “Scenes from a Marriage” melodrama “Blue Valentine.” Did those parents ever love each other? Did they once, and just get it out of the way? “Blue Valentine” is about that ultimate question writer Tom […]

The Oscar nominations have been announced. And, as usual, the Academy blew it with safe, predictable and mostly just plain lame choices. Luckily, Indie Film Guy has a modest proposal. The Indie Oscars! Host: Patton Oswalt. There’s no bigger, funnier film geek on the planet. Watching the hobbit-y standup turn his nerdery on the movie […]

The English ensemble drama “Another Year” stars Jim Broadbent as a civil engineer who takes geological core samples of the world we stand upon and determines how much stress it can bear. In a way, that’s what Mike Leigh’s film does. Leigh digs deep into the lives of his characters and tests their resilience as […]

OPENING FRIDAY “SANCTUM” (1:49) (R) Stars Rhys Wakefield, Allison Cratchley and Christopher Baker. Directed by Alister Grierson. An underwater cave-diving team experiences a life-threatening crisis during an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world. Language, some violence and disturbing images. Opening at: Cinemagic Saco (IMAX) Fri-Wed 12:15, 3, 6:45, 9:20; […]

Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett are comedy magicians. They turn movie trash into comedy gold. Founders of the Found Footage Festival, a traveling exhibition of hard-to-believe VHS detritus culled from thrift shops and yard sales across America, Prueher and Pickett (comedy veterans with credits including “Late Night with David Letterman,” “The Colbert Report” and AVClub.com), […]