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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Queen's Men stage all-female 'Julius Caesar'
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
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Horrible Imaginings's lively panel for Edgar G. Ulmer's 'Bluebeard' (1944). On the panel are Ulmer's daughter Arianne Ulmer Cipes and his biographer Noah Isenberg. Panel was moderated by Miguel Rodriguez. -
Two young filmmakers, Erick Msumanje and Gigi Saul Guererro, with wildly different films and styles talk about their work and how they define horror at the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival that took place over the weekend. -
Yes! I just found out that "Hobo With a Shotgun" has been held over, and you will have at least one more shot at this grindhouse homage. -
You may think you’ve seen bad movies but you haven’t seen anything quite as bad as “The Room." Listen to my radio feature about how a film’s badness is turning it into a cult hit on the midnight movie circuit. This is like a car crash that you cannot avoid looking at. -
Horrible Imaginings Film Festival director Miguel Rodriguez discusses his upcoming horror fest. -
Landmark’s Ken Cinema has found success with its classic film weeks and midnight movies. "They Live" pays tribute to the late Roddy Piper. -
If you found "Turbo Kid" on a VHS tape in someone's garage you'd probably swear it was a movie from the 1980s and that's just part of its charm. -
Tribute to horror master Wes Craven, who died on Sunday. I pull an archive interview from 2006 when he discussed the state of horror and how he thinks audiences arrive at his movies already in fear.
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Jesse Kornbluth's play looks to the later life of artist Henri Matisse -
Guest blogger D.A. Kolodenko looks to the literary roots of film noir -
Agnes Varda's 'Faces Places' opens and 'Haunters: The Art of the Scare' hits Netflix -
Show highlights challenging and adventurous music you can 'feel' -
Aaron Sorkin makes feature film directing debut with biopic on Molly Bloom -
Art studio wants people to appreciate comic book culture year round -
KPBS Midday EditionKPBS Cinema Junkie Beth Accomando picks the best films of the year -
KPBS Midday EditionRebels, white trash, and first love at the movies
Stripper Energy just received an Emmy for Journalistic Enterprise, you can watch the six-part video podcast now.