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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.

Step into Black Benatar’s bold, immersive, and unapologetically queer, world where drag, magic, comedy, and spectacle collide in a late-night experience for adults at the La Jolla Playhouse's 2025 WOW Festival.\ Playing
La Jolla Playhouse serves up audacious theatre to WOW you
Michael B. Jordan as Smoke, one of the twin brothers facing vampires in 1932 Mississippi in Ryan Coogler's "Sinners." (2025) Playing
Cinema Junkie recommends 'Sinners' and 'Gazer'
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WorldBeat Center's Sound Healing Garden
Charles McGraw and Marie Windsor star in the classic film noir "Narrow Margin." (1952) Playing
Cinema Junkie presents Midday Movies and Dark City Dames to die for
  • Austin Dean Ashford won Best of Fringe in 2018 and returns to spread message of diversity and inclusivity.
  • Cinema Junkie takes a film noir road trip to Shanghai and the Old West by way of the Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival in Palm Springs. Can't make it? Then just use this as a roadmap for your own noir journey.
  • Host Maureen Cavanaugh has Cinema Junkie Beth Accomando and Moviewallas' Yazdi Pithavala pick their favorite movies about moms and the results might surprise you.
  • KPBS Arts reporter Beth Accomando invites Pac-Arts artistic director Brian Hu to examine Asian representation in Hollywood films through the years, and how recent independent films have played a role in changing how Asians are represented on screen.
  • Former TCM programmer Millie DeChirico talks about her new book, "TCM Underground: 50 Must-See Films from the World of Classic Cult and Late-Night Cinema."
  • In the final episode of Cinema Junkie's three-part series focused on Black Com!x Day's Get Shooked! New Masters of Horror panel, Kevin Grevioux talks about his latest projects, owning your own IPs, and monsters.
  • Cinema Junkie continues its three-part series talking with the Get Shooked panelists coming for Black Comix Day. In this episode, John Jennings talks about cosmic superheroes, a crowd-funded horror anthology, and getting hooked on comics.
  • Cinema Junkie speaks with three of the new masters of horror contributing stories to the new comics anthology "Shook." In Part One, Rodney Barnes talks about vampires, real world horror and juggling a career in TV, film and comics.