Beth Accomando

BETH ACCOMANDO is the arts and culture reporter at KPBS and host of the Cinema Junkie podcast. She also created the Emmy-winning video podcast Stripper Energy: Fighting Back from the Fringes for KPBS. She compiles eccentric ten best lists for Showbiz Junkies, and freelances for NPR and PRI. She has taken home a Comic-Con International Inkpot Award and a Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award as well as 12 Southwestern Area Emmys. She was an editor on all the sequels to The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes movies, and still has a couple of the lethal vegetables, umm fruits, in her home. She is one of the Film Geeks at the Digital Gym Cinema, volunteering her time programming indie, foreign and late night genre films, and then baking themed desserts for the screenings. Beth has a passion for Shakespeare, Hong Kong cinema, Japanese monster movies, horror, film noir, and Comic-Con. Plus she loves putting on a haunted house every year to make kids drop their candy bags and run screaming from her home. You can find her on Facebook, and as Cinebeth on Instagram, X, and Bluesky.

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