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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It’s Thanksgiving and I have a special holiday episode all about the films people are thankful for. I speak to some famous people and some who are just diehard cinephiles. -
Cinema Junkie Podcast pays tribute to Jackie Chan by way of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a stuntman who grew up worshipping the Hong Kong Action star. -
The 17th annual San Diego Asian Film Festival runs through Nov. 12 at multiple venues with its home base at the UltraStar Mission Valley. -
Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz talks about films that highlights the best and worst in American politics. -
It's time for my annual check up with the Doctor of the Dead. Last year he diagnosed the self-aware zombie, this year he talks about Zombies for Humanity or zombies whose hearts have grown bigger than their brains. -
"Shin Godzilla" is the first Japanese film in 12 years to feature Toho's famous monster icon. On this podcast, I speak with professor Ramie Tateishi about the legacy of Big G and how this new film revisits the past and defines a potential new future. -
Another podcast from Horrible Imaginings Film Festival, this time checking in with horror authors about how to translate books to film and on what the written word can do that movies can't. -
FilmOut screens Clive Barker's "Nightbreed" on Oct. 12 at Landmark's Hillcrest Cinemas. So for this podcast I spoke with Mark Alan Miller, who produced the Director's Cut and was key in locating footage that had been thought lost.
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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.