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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Cinema Junkie is technically on holiday break but here's something old and something new to start the year: an archive of my Reel Science episode plus my picks for the best films of 2018.
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Holy archives! Cinema Junkie is on holiday break but enjoy this popular episode dedicated to the 1960s Batman TV show and movie, which are the subject of The Hollywood Museum's exhibit that runs through the end of the year.
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Cinema Junkie is taking a holiday break and will be re-posting popular podcasts in the interim. This week I pull up an archive show appropriate for the Christmas season but with some perverse holiday cheer and that means revisiting "Christmas Smackdown" with Mark Nutter and Cynthia Carle. Proceed with caution.
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Stunt driver Steve Lepper picks his favorite car movies as well as the best car chases ever put on film.
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Legendary Hong Kong producer Raymond Chow died earlier this month. This podcast pays tribute to his legacy with San Diego Asian Film Festival artistic director Brian Hu. Plus we get a preview of the 19th annual festival.
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A discussion of witches through history and on film from ancient Rome to "Rosemary's Baby" and Monty Python.
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Cinema Junkie asks people about the first film they remember scaring them. Listen to memories from horror fans and some famous horror celebrities.
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The Doctor of the Dead, Arnold T. Blumberg, uses zombies to teach media literacy and critical thinking. He has also just written a geeky, well-researched history of the zombie, "Journey of the Living Dead."
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KPBS Midday EditionNew play mixes Molière, Shakespeare, and a narco telenovela
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KPBS Midday EditionOld Globe MFA graduate Heather Raffo has west coast premiere of her play
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More than two dozen shorts, features, documentaries screen at Museum of Photographic Arts
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Interstellar film is beautiful to look at but hollow at its core
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KPBS Midday EditionThe University of San Diego’s Hoehn Family Galleries opened an exhibit called "Christ: Life, Death, and Resurrection." It draws upon the works of the Italian Renaissance from The British Museum and includes a drawing from Michelangelo.
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Icarus Interstellar hosts conference to awaken the interstellar space exploration industry
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KPBS Midday EditionArtistic director Matt Morrow says the theme is 'we are'
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KPBS Midday EditionCritics look to 'It Chapter 2' and 'Brittany Runs a Marathon'
Stripper Energy just received an Emmy for Journalistic Enterprise, you can watch the six-part video podcast now.