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'
-
Cinema Junkie travels to Egypt by way of an actor described as the "Egyptian Brad Pitt." In other words, he’s a big star even though most Americans don’t know his name, Khaled El Nabawy. -
Cinema Junkie serves up two archive interviews featuring Steve Martin and George Takai, both of whom have musicals currently on Broadway that premiered at the Old Globe Theatre. -
Cinema Junkie takes you on a pilgrimage to mecca, also known as the TCM Film Festival. -
Monsterpalooza, a convention celebrating the art of movie monsters, has grown so big that it has moved from the Burbank Marriott to the Pasadena Convention Center. Cinema Junkie checks in with some of the people at the convention. -
The 1922 murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor inspired playwright Joe DiPietro to write "Hollywood," which has its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse in May. Cinema Junkie gets an early behind the scenes look at the play in progress. -
Academy Award-winning film editor Alan Heim was at Groovy Like a Movie for a San Diego Filmmakers event on April 12. Cinema Junkie sits down with the veteran craftsman for a master class in how to cut a film. -
FilmOut San Diego is screening John Waters' 1977 film "Desperate Living" at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Museum of Photographic Arts. The perfect excuse to dust off a 1997 archive interview. -
Cinema Junkie speaks with a veteran filmmaker and a newcomer whose works were featured in this month's San Diego Latino Film Festival.
-
Micro cinema finds new home in East Village at UC San Diego's Park and Market building -
Latest Marvel entry disappoints even with Sam Raimi at the helm. -
Naval Station North Island, the headquarters for naval aviation, was part of the premiere for the movie. -
Hanna Bergholm's film premiered virtually at Sundance and now arrives in cinemas and starts streaming next month. -
San Diego Shakespeare Society and Write Out Loud present K-12 students performing the Bard for free on Saturday. -
PacArts hosts more than two dozen films ranging from animation to documentary, science fiction to lush melodrama. -
TCM host Alicia Malone and TCM programmer Scott McGee will be signing new books. -
'The friendly, intimate comic convention experience' has a new president and will have a belated 100th birthday celebration for Gene Roddenberry.
Stripper Energy just received an Emmy for Journalistic Enterprise, you can watch the six-part video podcast now.