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
Cinema Junkie recommends ABA doc, grindhouse gem and 3D animation
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Unearth a Geek Roundtable with fellow podcaster and Horrible Imaginings Film Festival director Miguel Rodriguez to discuss Universal monsters and the continuing film series The Universal Suspects at the Digital Gym Cinema. -
Oscar-winner George Chakiris talks about his career, Marilyn Monroe, and his dog Sammy. -
"Drown" premiered in San Diego earlier this year at FilmOut where it won six awards including Best Narrative Feature, Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Soundtrack and Outstanding Artistic Achievement. "Drown" is a difficult film to watch but for all the right reasons. -
Oscar-winner George Chakiris talks about his work on "West Side Story." -
In 1968, ABC News was trailing miserably in the ratings and to offset its inability to provide gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Republican and Democratic conventions it came up with the idea of offering a series of debates between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal. The new documentary, "Best of Enemies" focuses on these debates. -
Horror and science fiction frequently turn to bugs and the insect world to scare people and this podcast features theNAT's entomologist Dr. Michael Wall talking about the interplay of science and pop culture. -
Giant bugs attack humanity in the new sci-fi horror film, "Stung" and meet TheNAT's curator of entomology. -
ScareLA's Extreme Haunt Panel featuring McKamey Manor, Blackout, and Gates of Hell's Victim Experience. Each haunt brought along a "victim" to discuss the experience. Here's the audio from the panel.
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A cottage teetering on the edge of a roof, a 180-ton granite bear, and a 560-foot slithering snake are just some of the commissioned art on the UC San Diego campus that inspire discussions of what makes art. -
KPBS Midday EditionDostoevsky's epic novel about murder, morality and suffering is now a 90-minute comic romp at The Globe. -
VIZ Media brought the acclaimed artist to Comic-Con last week. -
Some attendees and vendors said the pop culture convention benefitted from the absence of studios and celebrities. -
Skip the crowds and check out the Eisner award-winning comics at one of San Diego's amazing shops. -
Legal Geeks make the law fun with two panels at Comic-Con this week. -
The Droid Building 101 panel at Comic-Con will provide all the basic information to start making an R2 unit. -
Tom Cruise dazzles with stunts in latest "Mission Impossible" outing but does it really need to be two parts?
Stripper Energy just received an Emmy for Journalistic Enterprise, you can watch the six-part video podcast now.