Cinema Junkie
Satisfy your celluloid addiction and mainline film 24/7 with Cinema Junkie’s Beth Accomando. So if you need a film fix, want to hear what filmmakers have to say about their work, feel like taking a deep dive into a genre, or just want to know what's worth seeing this weekend, then you've come to the right place. You can also find Beth's coverage of other arts and culture events here.
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'Park Opera' redefines opera in Balboa Park
Unpacking the virtues of Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners'
La Jolla Playhouse serves up audacious theatre to WOW you
Cinema Junkie recommends 'Sinners' and 'Gazer'
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The seventh annual Horrible Imaginings Film Festival wrapped this past Sunday. Here are interviews with filmmakers from around the globe who came. -
Something wicked this way comes! It is time for the seventh annual Horrible Imaginings Film Festival, which runs Sept. 7 through 11 at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. -
The comic-turned-playwright's latest work, "Meteor Shower," has its world premiere at the Old Globe. -
"Hell or High Water" is a throwback to 1970s indie films. Director David Mackenzie and actor Gil Birmingham talk about making a contemporary Western that delivers social commentary. -
There are less than three months until Halloween. Spirit stores are already posting signs looking for employees and I am still trying to track down tentacles for my Lovecraft haunt this year. So basically it’s panic mode. Fortunately, I spent this past weekend at ScareLA where my sense of panic was understood by fellow Halloween enthusiasts. -
Mike Birbiglia's new film "Don't Think Twice" looks to an improv group experiencing some growing pains. -
If Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland were geeks, they would be putting on a "Hobbits" version of "Les Mis" or a "Star Wars" take on "The Phantom of the Opera." That's what Turning Tydes is doing at Comic-Con. -
Olivia de Havilland, the loveliest of all Maid Marians, turns 100 years old this month and that's reason enough to screen "The Adventures of Robin Hood" and celebrate this 1938 Technicolor classic.
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New film shows how the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program changed the lives of incarcerated men. -
San Diego Central Library is launching The Swiftie Book Club. -
Renée Westbrook's award-winning one-woman show will be performed in Los Angeles on Friday. -
Black cultural center in Balboa Park looks to unite through music, art and culture. -
This weekend enjoy art, dance, cocktails and live music at Tiki Oasis. -
San Diego comics creators discuss their love for the medium and their upcoming San Diego Comic-Con panels. -
The final day of San Diego Comic-Con still has lots of options, especially for families. -
Before Hollywood discovered Comic-Con, the one studio you could always count on finding at the pop culture convention was the iconoclastic Troma.
Beth Accomando is taking a short break from film reviews and arts coverage to create a six-part video podcast called Stripper Energy. Check it out!