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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You must remember this … after 75 years, the film “Casablanca” still maintains an iconic place in pop culture. A new book explores the life, legend and afterlife of Hollywood’s most beloved film. -
Forty years ago, Stuart Gordon adapted Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “The Sirens of Titan” to the stage. Now, Sacred Fools Theater Company in Los Angeles is reviving that adaptation and finding it surprisingly topical. -
It is that time of year for classic film zealots to make the pilgrimage to the mecca known as the TCM Film Festival, running April 6 through 9 in Los Angeles. -
Cannibal films — in which people mindlessly slaughter and eat others or where carnage soaks the screen — are a dime a dozen. But films in which great care is taken with both the filmmaking and the preparation of human flesh for consumption are more rare. And that's what we are going to be talking about on this gourmet cannibal podcast. -
This week, the 24th annual San Diego Latino Film Festival kicks off, and that is a perfect excuse to look at Latin cinema — so good it’s scary. -
The wait is finally over. After 13 years "Samurai Jack" is back for his fifth and final season and I speak with Phil LaMarr, the voice actor who has brought Jack to life since his debut in 2001. -
February is Women in Horror Month and just before the month closes I want to pay tribute to some wickedly talented filmmakers, Jen and Sylvia Soska and their second feature, "American Mary." -
With "John Wick: Chapter 2," stuntman-turned-director Chad Stahelski proves that he knows what's best for American action films.
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Collectors Bram and Sandra Dijkstra saw value in "discarded art." -
KPBS Midday EditionBradley Voytek will be one of two neuroscientists presenting insights into the zombie brain at "The Secret Morgue 4: Zombie Autopsy Edition." -
This weekend choose between Cassandro the Exotico or Agatha Christie's famous detective at the cinemas. -
The free, family-friendly event celebrating Afrofuturistic art, film, writing and thinking takes place at Jackie Robinson YMCA in Mountain View. -
The four-day film festival kicks off Sept. 7 in Balboa Park and will celebrate and uplift the broad spectrum of the LGBTQ+ community through movies at a time of growing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation across the U.S. -
This weekend choose between zombie mayhem or a "final girl" taking on a creepy perpetrator. -
Can "The Untitled Unauthorized Hunster S. Thompson Musical" capture the fear and loathing of the pop culture icon? -
The latest entry in the DC universe offers a genuinely fun time. DC's "Blue Beetle" introduces audiences to Jaime Reyes and his origin story.
Stripper Energy just received an Emmy for Journalistic Enterprise, you can watch the six-part video podcast now.