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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SD Fringe top pick: 'Smile'
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Two young filmmakers, Erick Msumanje and Gigi Saul Guererro, with wildly different films and styles talk about their work and how they define horror at the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival that took place over the weekend.
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Yes! I just found out that "Hobo With a Shotgun" has been held over, and you will have at least one more shot at this grindhouse homage.
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You may think you’ve seen bad movies but you haven’t seen anything quite as bad as “The Room." Listen to my radio feature about how a film’s badness is turning it into a cult hit on the midnight movie circuit. This is like a car crash that you cannot avoid looking at.
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Horrible Imaginings Film Festival director Miguel Rodriguez discusses his upcoming horror fest.
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Landmark’s Ken Cinema has found success with its classic film weeks and midnight movies. "They Live" pays tribute to the late Roddy Piper.
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If you found "Turbo Kid" on a VHS tape in someone's garage you'd probably swear it was a movie from the 1980s and that's just part of its charm.
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Tribute to horror master Wes Craven, who died on Sunday. I pull an archive interview from 2006 when he discussed the state of horror and how he thinks audiences arrive at his movies already in fear.
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Unearth a Geek Roundtable with fellow podcaster and Horrible Imaginings Film Festival director Miguel Rodriguez to discuss Universal monsters and the continuing film series The Universal Suspects at the Digital Gym Cinema.
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The 'RuPaul Drag Race' winner talks about drag and the world premiere of 'Velour: A Drag Spectacular' at La Jolla Playhouse.
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Our top picks for film festivals in San Diego this season: Asian, Italian and LGBTQ+ film festival fill local cinemas.
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Our top picks for Halloween fun in San Diego this season: Lon Chaney, "Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors," and the return of 'Rocky Horror."
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Greg DeFatta has been been making people scream for 35 years, and he loves it.
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Our top picks for theater in San Diego this season: Agatha Christie, 'Midnight at the Never Get' and opera.
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Tim Burton and Michael Keaton return with their trickster ghost and a perfect reason to head to cinemas to escape the heat.
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The world premiere of Sasha Velour's show is selling out.
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Eisner award-winning letterer Stan Sakai talks about his art.
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