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
In Bed With Twisted Twins Jen And Sylvia Soska
February is Women in Horror Month and just before the month closes I want to pay tribute to some wickedly talented filmmakers, Jen and Sylvia Soska and their second feature, "American Mary."
01:59:58 |
Tue 28 Feb 2017
Chad Stahelski And ‘John Wick 2’ Raise The Bar On American Action
With "John Wick: Chapter 2," stuntman-turned-director Chad Stahelski proves that he knows what's best for American action films.
01:30:00 |
Sat 11 Feb 2017
James Baldwin And ‘I Am Not Your Negro’
Cinema Junkie podcast celebrates Black History Month by speaking with filmmaker Raoul Peck about his Oscar-nominated documentary, "I Am Not Your Negro" (opening Feb. 10 at Landmark's Hillcrest Cinema…
00:46:30 |
Wed 08 Feb 2017
ACE Editors Discuss The Art Of Editing
Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker and Emmy-winning editor Janet Ashikaga received Career Achievement Honors at the American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Awards. They talk about …
01:01:36 |
Tue 31 Jan 2017
Paying Tribute To John Carpenter
John Carpenter celebrated his 69th birthday on Jan. 16 so it is the perfect time to pay tribute to the filmmaker and launch a film series dedicated to his work.
00:46:10 |
Fri 20 Jan 2017
Famous Film Firsts
Who was the first woman in the Directors Guild of America? What was the first X-rated film to win a Best Picture Oscar? What was the first film Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro worked on? Get the an…
02:12:43 |
Thu 12 Jan 2017
Real Scientists Talk About Reel Science
Cinema Junkie Podcast is back from holiday break with a show all about real scientists talking about reel science.
01:41:35 |
Sat 07 Jan 2017
Drunk Reindeer, Severed Heads And Christmas Smackdown
Cinema Junkie closes out 2016 with a tribute to the irreverent and hilarious musical revue "Christmas Smackdown." Warning: What follows pushes the boundaries of good taste to the breaking point ... a…
00:53:40 |
Thu 15 Dec 2016
New Documentary Looks At The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
"1948: Creation and Catastrophe" looks to the pivotal year that David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the state of Israel and how that impacted the Middle E…
01:26:20 |
Fri 09 Dec 2016
Remembering Drive-Ins
Celebrate the allure of the American drive-in with this Cinema Junkie archive edition.
00:27:00 |
Fri 02 Dec 2016
Films To Be Thankful For
It’s Thanksgiving and I have a special holiday episode all about the films people are thankful for. I speak to some famous people and some who are just diehard cinephiles.
01:12:14 |
Thu 24 Nov 2016
Stuntman Pays Tribute To His Idol Jackie Chan
Cinema Junkie Podcast pays tribute to Jackie Chan by way of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a stuntman who grew up worshipping the Hong Kong Action star.
00:41:59 |
Sat 19 Nov 2016
San Diego Asian Film Festival — Extreme And Overachieving
The 17th annual San Diego Asian Film Festival runs through Nov. 12 at multiple venues with its home base at the UltraStar Mission Valley.
01:03:37 |
Thu 03 Nov 2016
TCM Political Films With Ben Mankiewicz
Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz talks about films that highlights the best and worst in American politics.
00:29:00 |
Tue 01 Nov 2016
Zombies for Humanity
It's time for my annual check up with the Doctor of the Dead. Last year he diagnosed the self-aware zombie, this year he talks about Zombies for Humanity or zombies whose hearts have grown bigger tha…
01:47:21 |
Sun 30 Oct 2016
Godzilla 101 — The Monster Is The Message
"Shin Godzilla" is the first Japanese film in 12 years to feature Toho's famous monster icon. On this podcast, I speak with professor Ramie Tateishi about the legacy of Big G and how this new film re…
01:16:57 |
Mon 24 Oct 2016
Horrible Imaginings ‘Horror Lit’ Primer
Another podcast from Horrible Imaginings Film Festival, this time checking in with horror authors about how to translate books to film and on what the written word can do that movies can't.
01:49:00 |
Mon 17 Oct 2016
Celebrating Clive Barker’s ‘Nightbreed’
FilmOut screens Clive Barker's "Nightbreed" on Oct. 12 at Landmark's Hillcrest Cinemas. So for this podcast I spoke with Mark Alan Miller, who produced the Director's Cut and was key in locating foot…
01:02:29 |
Sat 08 Oct 2016
Frizzi, Fulci And The Fever Dream Of Italian Horror
I'm in the mood for Italian horror thanks to composer Fabio Frizzi coming to San Diego to perform scores from his films. So let's talk about Frizzi, Fulci and the fever dream of Italian horror.
01:15:30 |
Wed 05 Oct 2016
Spock, NASA, And A Real Documentary Versus A Fake One
Sometimes there’s just too much good stuff to cover so this week I am going to talk with a pair of filmmakers from wildly divergent films but what makes them fun to combine into one podcast is that o…
00:57:00 |
Tue 20 Sep 2016
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