Beth Accomando

Beth Accomando is an American film and theatre critic for KPBS, who formerly worked as an arts reporter for NPR, XETV and The Star-News. She hosts the Cinema Junkie podcast and has curated several film events throughout San Diego County. Accomando edited the 1991 to 1992 sequels of the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes franchise and is part of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists and Critics' Choice Movie Awards. Her work has been distributed through several publications, including RogerEbert.com.

Early life Upon graduating from Bonita Vista High School in 1978, While in college, she was a special writer for The Star-News. Accomando graduated from University of California, San Diego, in 1982 with a degree in communications and visual arts.

Career Accomando is a theatre and film critic for KPBS who reviewed films such as Sucker Punch, The Brave One, and Knocked Up. She runs a podcast called Cinema Junkie She described just how much George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead influenced Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead.

In 1985, Accomando was one of 12 women featured in A San Diego Exhibition: Forty-two Emerging Artists at La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art. In the early 1990s, she was the film editor for Killer Tomatoes Strike Back and Killer Tomatoes Eat France. Accomando worked for XETV-TDT in 1992 and in 1998, introduced the film Rashomon at Landmark's Ken Cinema.

In 2000, Accomando curated an event in San Diego that held premieres for Butterfly and Sword, Eastern Condors, Holy Weapon, The Magic Crystal, Pedicab Driver and Shanghai Blues. She wrote for National Public Radio and helped put together an Asian festival at University of California, San Diego. In a 2007 interview, Lee Ann Kim described Accomando as the one "who really plugged me into international Asian film". Accomando has interviewed Chow Yun Fat, Jackie Chan, Stanley Tong and John Woo. She was a panelist at UCSD's Up & Coming Film Festival with Ham Tran in 2008, Ligiah Villalobos in 2009, and with Arthur Ollman in 2011. In 2016, Accomando judged a play called Killing Buddha at San Diego International Fringe Festival. She was part of a Storytelling in Film panel with Michael Lewis Foster, Neal Hallford and Jonathan Hammond at San Diego Comic Con in 2021. She hosted Flicks on the Bricks in 2018, 2022 and 2023 at Athenaeum Music & Arts Library.

In June 2025, Accomando won a Pacific Southwest regional Emmy Award for the video podcast Stripper Energy: Fighting Back From the Fringes. Inkpot Award 2022 Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award 2023 Emmy Award 2025 Selected works

Articles RogerEbert.com

Publications Alliance of Women Film Journalists