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Portsmouth Music Hall has cornered the New Hampshire Seacoast market when it comes to showing independent, off-beat and second run movies. As the summer film series winds down, movie buffs might want to shift their indie-film seeking gaze south to Newburyport, where such flicks can be seen all year long.

This weekend, the Screening Room will be showing the cult classic TV show prequel “Strangers With Candy.” Terri Blank fans can enjoy her snarly smile:

Friday, Aug. 25 at 6:45 and 8:45 p.m.
Saturday, Aug. 26 at 4:45; 6:45 and 8:45 p.m.
Sunday, Aug. 27 at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. and Monday through Thursday, Aug. 28-31 at 7:30 p.m.

For those of you unaware of Comedy Central’s series that comes off like a perverse afterschool special, then perhaps you should wait until next month, when from Sept. 30 through Oct. 12, you can see “the most buzzed about movie at Sundance this year,” “Little Miss Sunshine.” If you are anything like me, who hasn’t been to see a movie in the theater since the Star Wars Episode III, I think these two films are strong enough to get us out of the bar for one night.