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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Unpacking the virtues of Ryan Coogler's 'Sinners'
La Jolla Playhouse serves up audacious theatre to WOW you
Cinema Junkie recommends 'Sinners' and 'Gazer'
WorldBeat Center's Sound Healing Garden
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This week's horror-themed October Cinema Junkie podcast pays tribute to "Re-Animator The Musical." -
It's all about obedience and madness with reviews of "The Experimenter" and National Theatre Live's "Hamlet" with Benedict Cumberbatch. -
This week's horror-themed edition of the KPBS Cinema Junkie Podcast looks at "The Babadook" through the eyes of a psychoanalyst. -
Guillermo del Toro returns to the realm of ghosts for his gothic romance, "Crimson Peak." -
If you have ever had the secret desire to look through medical books with their explicit photos of disease, deformities and medical science, then I have the perfect thing for you. -
This week's Cinema Junkie podcast looks to the new horror film "Goodnight Mommy" that hails from Austria. -
All the hype this week is focused on "The Martian" (opening Oct. 2 throughout San Diego), but there are plenty of other film choices for this weekend. -
An archive interview with Clive Barker from 2005 launches a month of horror themed podcasts on Cinema Junkie.
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If you love movies you will have four San Diego film festivals to choose from in the coming weeks. -
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?
Beth Accomando is taking a short break from film reviews and arts coverage to create a six-part video podcast called Stripper Energy. Check it out!