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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WorldBeat Cultural Center celebrates Threads of Freedom
Escape to Arcade Monsters
From the World of John Wick: You want action? Yeah.
SD Fringe top pick: 'Smile'
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Film Struck is showcasing eight classics of Blaxploitation Cinema so it's time to revisit the Cinema Junkie Podcast featuring David Walker, writer of the "Shaft" comic books. Walker loves the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s and says we're due for Blaxploitation 2.0. -
With "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" reanimating on screens this weekend, the time seems ripe to speak with Doctor of the Dead Arnold T. Blumberg about a recent strain of the undead — the self-aware zombie. -
On the heels of Oscar snubbing black actors and filmmakers again, and on the eve of Black History Month, Cinema Junkie sits down with a pair of black San Diego independent filmmakers to talk about some under-appreciated African-American directors whose works are worth seeking out. -
The San Diego Black Film Festival reveals the diversity of contemporary black filmmaking. -
The screening of a documentary about the Black Panthers at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival this weekend seems oddly appropriate on the heels of the very white Academy Award nominations. Would the Black Panthers be boycotting the Oscars? -
Cinema Junkie Podcast is back from a holiday break with a three-part show all about the Oscars. -
Awards season is in full swing so it must be time to make a Ten Best List and hand out some awards. -
For some, "Star Wars" is a way of life and the arrival of a new movie set in a galaxy far, far away is cause for both great excitement and great concern. A group of "Star Wars" fans rent a van and drive up to Los Angeles for the opening night of "Episode VII: The Force Awakens."
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San Diego Legendary Lion Dance Association will be celebrating Lunar New Year all month with lion dances. -
On the menu: a slow food film about the joys of cooking opens this weekend at Digital Gym Cinema plus some other cinematic treats. -
Director Matthew Vaughn explains the inspiration behind "Argylle." -
The new production of "Don Giovanni" gives a modern spin to Mozart's bad boy. -
SDIJFF offers 12 days of in person films at the Garfield Theatre in La Jolla and then goes online. -
Kick off Black History Month by celebrating Black creators. -
The Stay Strange Short Film Festival and 'Lumpia with a Vengeance' release parties taking place on Saturday will satisfy diverse tastes. -
The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Performing Arts Center will be new home for Cygnet Theatre
Stripper Energy just received an Emmy for Journalistic Enterprise, you can watch the six-part video podcast now.