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
Bringing 'The Heart' to life
'Batman Azteca' wows Comic-Con
Comic-Con Panel Highlight: Graphic India
Little Fish students get work reviewed at Comic-Con
-
"Bone Tomahawk" gets a one-time screening in San Diego on Feb. 21 at the Digital Gym Cinema. Writer-director S. Craig Zahler talks about ramping up his slow-burn horror western. -
Film Struck is showcasing eight classics of Blaxploitation Cinema so it's time to revisit the Cinema Junkie Podcast featuring David Walker, writer of the "Shaft" comic books. Walker loves the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s and says we're due for Blaxploitation 2.0. -
With "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" reanimating on screens this weekend, the time seems ripe to speak with Doctor of the Dead Arnold T. Blumberg about a recent strain of the undead — the self-aware zombie. -
On the heels of Oscar snubbing black actors and filmmakers again, and on the eve of Black History Month, Cinema Junkie sits down with a pair of black San Diego independent filmmakers to talk about some under-appreciated African-American directors whose works are worth seeking out. -
The San Diego Black Film Festival reveals the diversity of contemporary black filmmaking. -
The screening of a documentary about the Black Panthers at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival this weekend seems oddly appropriate on the heels of the very white Academy Award nominations. Would the Black Panthers be boycotting the Oscars? -
Cinema Junkie Podcast is back from a holiday break with a three-part show all about the Oscars. -
Awards season is in full swing so it must be time to make a Ten Best List and hand out some awards.
-
Friday's event will feature art and live music in La Jolla. -
Movie choices offer unconventional biopic or effective horror. -
Shudder will stream the showcase of seven short films through July 19. -
'Mad God' and 'Neptune Frost' will be held over for second week at Digital Gym Cinema. -
Rep artistic director Sam Woodhouse admitted "errors" and offered a "sincere apology." -
The allegations come just days after the 46-year-old theater announced it would be suspending all productions and laying off its entire staff due to a financial crisis. -
Fringe ends with its traditional Secret Cabaret and "best of" the festival. -
Dinosaurs battle indie titles in cinemas.
Stripper Energy just received an Emmy for Journalistic Enterprise, you can watch the six-part video podcast now.