Cinema Junkie
Satisfy your celluloid addiction with the "Cinema Junkie" podcast, where you can mainline film 24/7. This film and entertainment series is run by KPBS Film Critic Beth Accomando. So if you need a film fix, want to hear what filmmakers have to say about their work, or just want to know what's worth seeing this weekend, then you've come to the right place.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 148 minutes
- Episodes
- 270
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Documentary 'Electric Boogaloo' Tells Wild Tale Of Cannon Films
If you grew up in the 1980s then you probably saw a Cannon Film like “Lifeforce,” “Missing in Action,” or “Death Wish 2.” The new documentary “Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Film…
00:09:27 |
Thu 17 Sep 2015
Horrible Imaginings Panel for 'Bluebeard'
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 Rodri…
00:33:58 |
Tue 15 Sep 2015
Talking Film Style With Directors From Horrible Imaginings Film Festival
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…
00:31:10 |
Mon 14 Sep 2015
Director Jason Eisener Talks 'Hobo With A Shotgun'
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.
00:27:35 |
Fri 11 Sep 2015
"The Room" Is Really So Bad It's Good
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 movi…
00:04:32 |
Thu 10 Sep 2015
Interview With Miguel Rodriguez of Horrible Imaginings Film Festival
Horrible Imaginings Film Festival director Miguel Rodriguez discusses his upcoming horror fest.
01:20:57 |
Fri 04 Sep 2015
Ken Screens John Carpenter's Cult Classic 'They Live'
Landmark’s Ken Cinema has found success with its classic film weeks and midnight movies. "They Live" pays tribute to the late Roddy Piper.
00:00:42 |
Thu 03 Sep 2015
The Retro Pastiche of ‘Turbo Kid’
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.
00:06:15 |
Thu 03 Sep 2015
Remembering Horror Master Wes Craven
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.
00:29:41 |
Mon 31 Aug 2015
Geek Roundtable Takes On Universal Monsters
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 …
00:35:22 |
Fri 28 Aug 2015
Interview With Oscar-winner George Chakiris, Part 2
Oscar-winner George Chakiris talks about his career, Marilyn Monroe, and his dog Sammy.
00:28:14 |
Fri 28 Aug 2015
Hot Guys And Homophobia Fuel ‘Drown’
"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 Achieve…
00:08:43 |
Thu 27 Aug 2015
Interview With Oscar-winner George Chakiris. Part 1
Oscar-winner George Chakiris talks about his work on "West Side Story."
00:25:01 |
Tue 25 Aug 2015
'Best Of Enemies' Looks To 1968 Buckley-Vidal Debates
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 offerin…
00:09:42 |
Thu 20 Aug 2015
Entomologist On Scary Bugs And Sci-Fi
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…
00:36:53 |
Fri 14 Aug 2015
Get 'Stung' By Giant Wasp Movie
Giant bugs attack humanity in the new sci-fi horror film, "Stung" and meet TheNAT's curator of entomology.
00:01:03 |
Thu 13 Aug 2015
San Diego's McKamey Manor Takes Haunting To Extremes
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.
00:55:11 |
Sun 09 Aug 2015
Jason Segel Talks About Playing Author David Foster Wallace In 'End Of The Tour'
David Foster Wallace won accolades for his 1,000-page tome “Infinite Jest” in 1996. Then he saddened fans by committing suicide just over a decade later. Actor Jason Segel talks about playing the lat…
00:15:21 |
Thu 06 Aug 2015
Film Review Of 'The End of the Tour'
"The End of the Tour" reviewed by Cinema Junkie Beth Accomando.
00:02:38 |
Thu 06 Aug 2015
Simon Pegg on 'Hot Fuzz'
With Simon Pegg returning in "Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation," I decided to reach into the archives for a 2007 interview with Pegg about "Hot Fuzz."
00:18:50 |
Fri 31 Jul 2015
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