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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Cygnet Theatre opens 'The Joan' at Arts District Liberty Station

Kurosawa classics restored and on big screen

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Apple TV+ recently launched Season 3 of "Slow Horses" starring Gary Oldman. It is also midway through its "Monarch Legacy of Monsters" show that expands Legendary’s Monsterverse.
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Cinema Junkie speaks with Fil-Am filmmaker H.P. Mendoza about human flight, ghosts on the set, and 'grief release.'
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Cinema Junkie wants to extend the spooky season to 365 days a year with some home haunting memories and scary movie recommendations.
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Cinema Junkie speaks with filmmaker Errol Morris about his new documentary "The Pigeon Tunnel," which explores the life and work of David Cornwell, better known by his pen name of John Le Carré.
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Moises Esparza looks back on ten years of programming for San Diego Latino Film Festival to curate a list of film recommendations.
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In the early Twentieth Century, Anna May Wong was deemed too Chinese to play white roles and too American to play Chinese roles but that did not stop her from becoming an international icon. Cinema Junkie speaks with Yunte Huang, author of a new biography on the Asian American Actress.
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Steve Chu juggles duties as a judge and a pop culture nerd.
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To celebrate Comic-Con, we are convening a Midday Movies edition to highlight a few of our favorite superhero movies.
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The San Diego International Fringe Festival returns to Balboa Park for 2023 — here's how to take it all in.
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This world premiere event invites visitors into what it calls “a realm of ringside thrills and backstage secrets.”
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Enjoy a quartet of films from classic golden age Hong Kong to new releases.
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Jose Trinidad Camacho gets binational exhibition with art from his four-decade career.
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Imagined cinematic futures will be used by guest speakers to discuss current issues about race, gender, healthcare and artificial intelligence.
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Spoiler-free review of Marvel's latest and final(?) "Guardians" film.
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Digital Gym Cinema has some film options if the lines for that new Marvel movie are too long. Documentaries on the human body and Little Richard are showing this weekend.
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Actress Rachel Weisz talks about giving David Cronenberg's film a gender flip and challenging the status quo.
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