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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Bringing 'The Heart' to life

'Batman Azteca' wows Comic-Con

Comic-Con Panel Highlight: Graphic India

Little Fish students get work reviewed at Comic-Con
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"Bone Tomahawk" gets a one-time screening in San Diego on Feb. 21 at the Digital Gym Cinema. Writer-director S. Craig Zahler talks about ramping up his slow-burn horror western.
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Film Struck is showcasing eight classics of Blaxploitation Cinema so it's time to revisit the Cinema Junkie Podcast featuring David Walker, writer of the "Shaft" comic books. Walker loves the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s and says we're due for Blaxploitation 2.0.
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With "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" reanimating on screens this weekend, the time seems ripe to speak with Doctor of the Dead Arnold T. Blumberg about a recent strain of the undead — the self-aware zombie.
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On the heels of Oscar snubbing black actors and filmmakers again, and on the eve of Black History Month, Cinema Junkie sits down with a pair of black San Diego independent filmmakers to talk about some under-appreciated African-American directors whose works are worth seeking out.
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The San Diego Black Film Festival reveals the diversity of contemporary black filmmaking.
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The screening of a documentary about the Black Panthers at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival this weekend seems oddly appropriate on the heels of the very white Academy Award nominations. Would the Black Panthers be boycotting the Oscars?
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Cinema Junkie Podcast is back from a holiday break with a three-part show all about the Oscars.
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Awards season is in full swing so it must be time to make a Ten Best List and hand out some awards.
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A dozen select shorts to screen this Friday
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Canadian film celebrates 1980s action films
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San Diego Star Wars Society gathers for release of new 'Force Awakens' toys
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Arts complex wants to be Balboa Park of North County
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KPBS Midday EditionCheck out my two-part Cinema Junkie podcast interview
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Jukebox musical takes the stage at Carlsbad's New Village Arts Theatre
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Guest blogger says it has moments of brilliance
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The biggest tiki weekender 'in the solar system' launches Thursday night
Stripper Energy just received an Emmy for Journalistic Enterprise, you can watch the six-part video podcast now.