Junkfood Cinema

Junkfood Cinema began as a weekly column by Brian Salisbury at Film School Rejects, the film site that had moved to Austin from Cleveland around 2008. By June 2010 the column was running regularly, describing itself as doing "its small part to battle piracy" by featuring films nobody would want to download. Salisbury was listed on FSR's masthead that year as a columnist. His own bio says he has written about film online since 2009, with bylines at Film School Rejects, Cinematical, Hollywood.com, Fandango, Movies.com, Spill.com and others.

In 2014 Salisbury turned the column into a podcast with C. Robert Cargill, the novelist and co-writer of Sinister, Doctor Strange and The Black Phone. The show bills itself as a celebration of movies listeners love regardless of box office or reputation. It has taken the format to live events: screenings and live episodes at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz (2019), South Lamar (2018) and Village (2017) in Austin, ArmadilloCon in Austin (2017), and events in Chattanooga, Minneapolis, Denver, Omaha and Middletown, New York. Salisbury, an Austin Film Critics Association member since 2011, was the group's president from 2016 to 2020. The podcast was still releasing episodes in October 2026.