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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2025 Eisners: Highlights and backstage
Comic-Con Museum celebrates Mexico's lucha libre in new exhibit

Go behind the scenes of Primal Pro Wrestling School

Highlights from the Lucas Museum Panel
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Celebrate the allure of the American drive-in with this Cinema Junkie archive edition.
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It’s Thanksgiving and I have a special holiday episode all about the films people are thankful for. I speak to some famous people and some who are just diehard cinephiles.
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Cinema Junkie Podcast pays tribute to Jackie Chan by way of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a stuntman who grew up worshipping the Hong Kong Action star.
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The 17th annual San Diego Asian Film Festival runs through Nov. 12 at multiple venues with its home base at the UltraStar Mission Valley.
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Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz talks about films that highlights the best and worst in American politics.
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It's time for my annual check up with the Doctor of the Dead. Last year he diagnosed the self-aware zombie, this year he talks about Zombies for Humanity or zombies whose hearts have grown bigger than their brains.
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"Shin Godzilla" is the first Japanese film in 12 years to feature Toho's famous monster icon. On this podcast, I speak with professor Ramie Tateishi about the legacy of Big G and how this new film revisits the past and defines a potential new future.
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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.
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Mozart's 'Così Fan Tutte' welcomes audiences back to Civic Theatre after an almost two-year absence
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The festival will host 12 days of films online and in person from around the globe.
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The San Diego-based company is still working remotely and passing on in-person shows.
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The ACLU's Jeffrey Robinson says we are at a tipping point again.
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Preview weekend includes shorts, features, filmmakers and female metal band members from Lebanon.
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Late owner Robert Scott helped build a community that supported the comic book store through multiple hurdles, even a pandemic.
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Chicago Film Archives provides collection of shorts and features from 1960s.
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New entry in the horror franchise calls itself a 'requel'
Stripper Energy just received an Emmy for Journalistic Enterprise, you can watch the six-part video podcast now.