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.
Ways To Subscribe
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'
-
Directors talk about staging the Bard's romantic comedies and why they are still relevant. -
Ben Model has dedicated himself to creating music scores to bring silent films back to glorious life. He discusses the process to creating these scores and his passion to save these films and share them with new audiences. -
Here are some must-see LGBTQ+ films for Pride Month. -
Author and SDSU professor William Nericcio considers the art of Mexican cartoonist Jose Trinidad Camacho at Comic-Con Museum. -
Austin Dean Ashford won Best of Fringe in 2018 and returns to spread message of diversity and inclusivity. -
Cinema Junkie takes a film noir road trip to Shanghai and the Old West by way of the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs. Can't make it? Then just use this as a roadmap for your own noir journey. -
Host Maureen Cavanaugh has Cinema Junkie Beth Accomando and Moviewallas' Yazdi Pithavala pick their favorite movies about moms and the results might surprise you. -
KPBS Arts reporter Beth Accomando invites Pac-Arts artistic director Brian Hu to examine Asian representation in Hollywood films through the years, and how recent independent films have played a role in changing how Asians are represented on screen.
-
KPBS Midday EditionJonas Cuaron and Gael Garcia Bernal pair up for border thriller -
Women directors dominate in the closing days of the festival -
Godzilla returns to his birthplace to wreak havoc on Japan once again in a film from Toho Studios, where the monster was born in 1954. -
Nate Parker's film looks to 1831 slave rebellion -
KPBS Midday EditionDiversionary Theatre brings the Seattle show to San Diego -
The festival throws a 10th anniversary birthday bash with some intriguing new films. It runs through Oct. 16 with screenings at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park and La Paloma Theatre in Encinitas. -
A Hitchcock film every Thursday night in October -
In Jewish mythology a dybbuk is a dislocated soul of someone long dead that maliciously seeks a living person to possess. The Polish film "Demon" (opening Sept. 30 at Landmark's Ken Cinema) looks at the old folk tale in a new light.
Stripper Energy just received an Emmy for Journalistic Enterprise, you can watch the six-part video podcast now.