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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.

Amel Guellaty's "Where the Wind Comes From" (Tunisa/Qatar/France) is one of the films screening this weekend as part of the 15th Annual San Diego Arab Film Festival Playing
Cinema Junkie has weekend recommendations from around the globe
Arturo Ambriz and Roy Ambriz created the stop motion animated film "Soy Frankelda" that screens at the 33rd Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival. (2025) Playing
Immerse yourself in the San Diego Latino Film Festival
Jessie Buckley as The Bride in Warner Bros. Pictures' "The Bride" written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. (2026) Playing
Genre mash-ups: 'The Bride!' and 'Blood on the Moon'
After 37 years as the San Diego Natural History Museum's curator of birds and small mammals, Phil Unitt is retiring on Feb. 28. Undated photo. Playing
TheNAT's longtime curator Phil Unitt retires
  • Since she was 17 years old, Tymisha Harris has idolized legendary dancer, singer and activist Josephine Baker. Now she pays tribute to the first international black superstar in a one-woman show called "Josephine" at the San Diego International Fringe Festival.
  • June 22 is Bruce Campbell's birthday. That's cause for celebration and I am calling this podcast Hail to the King, Bruce Campbell in his honor.
  • With the first folio in San Diego this month, Cinema Junkie returns to the Bard for an episode all about "Macbeth."
  • When you think of Africa on film, what comes to mind? Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in "Out of Africa"? Leonardo DiCaprio in "Blood Diamond"? If so, then here's a fresh take on Africa from a first-time filmmaker from Kenya.
  • FilmOut, San Diego’ LGBT film festival, kicks off its 18th year Friday and will showcase some 40 films in three days. Cinema Junkie highlights one dark gem, “Downriver.”
  • The First Folio — the book that gave us Shakespeare — is touring the U.S. so what better time to talk about Shakespeare on film.
  • Cinema Junkie travels to Egypt by way of an actor described as the "Egyptian Brad Pitt." In other words, he’s a big star even though most Americans don’t know his name, Khaled El Nabawy.
  • Cinema Junkie serves up two archive interviews featuring Steve Martin and George Takai, both of whom have musicals currently on Broadway that premiered at the Old Globe Theatre.
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