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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Interview with 'Sunshine' actress Maris Racal
San Diego Filipino Film Festival serves up packed weekend
I was a scare actor for a night at Haunted Trail
San Diego Italian Film Festival celebrates courage
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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. -
I'm in the mood for Italian horror thanks to composer Fabio Frizzi coming to San Diego to perform scores from his films. So let's talk about Frizzi, Fulci and the fever dream of Italian horror. -
Sometimes there’s just too much good stuff to cover so this week I am going to talk with a pair of filmmakers from wildly divergent films but what makes them fun to combine into one podcast is that one is a real documentary — "For the Love of Spock" — and one is a fake documentary — "Operation Avalanche." -
The seventh annual Horrible Imaginings Film Festival wrapped this past Sunday. Here are interviews with filmmakers from around the globe who came. -
Something wicked this way comes! It is time for the seventh annual Horrible Imaginings Film Festival, which runs Sept. 7 through 11 at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. -
The comic-turned-playwright's latest work, "Meteor Shower," has its world premiere at the Old Globe. -
"Hell or High Water" is a throwback to 1970s indie films. Director David Mackenzie and actor Gil Birmingham talk about making a contemporary Western that delivers social commentary.
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Actor Tom Steward turns his SD Fringe one-man show into a musical for Coronado Playhouse this weekend -
Taiwanese film inspired by video game deals with history and the period of White Terror -
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Japan's pop culture icon is increasing his footprint in the U.S. market for Christmas -
Attendees share their experiences at the scaled back pop culture convention. -
Looking beyond just the usual suspect of the femme fatale to explore the diversity of women in classic Hollywood film noir -
KPBS Midday EditionComic-Con Special Edition runs through Sunday at San Diego Convention Center -
KPBS Midday EditionAfter two virtual conventions Comic-Con is back at San Diego Convention Center with a scaled down in-person show.
Stripper Energy just received an Emmy for Journalistic Enterprise, you can watch the six-part video podcast now.