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In June, the On Set Cinema series brought a screening of Empire Records to the real life building that served as its filming location in Wilmington, North Carolina. We took this opportunity to examine the makings of this 90s era cult classic.
We wheel the HistoryCast 5000 machine back out to analyze a classic masterpiece of cinema for historical accuracy. Lawrence of Arabia is widely loved by critics, but how true is it to history? We make a quantifiable determination in this episod
In 1976 a team of specialists finished a two year project to build a giant bus. Then they stayed up all night writing the script for a movie based around it. Read More ...
In our latest installment of Script Bandits, we turn to Russia at the turn of the twentieth century to get some real life inspiration for a good old fashioned naval comedy. Read More ...
To select the subject of this Very Local History show, we threw a dart at a map and it landed in the mystical city of Charleville in Queensland, Australia.The life of eccentric meteorologist Clement Lindley Wragge leads him around the world.
The film career of David Lynch had an unlikely savior after the poorly received 1984 adaptation of Dune. Dino De Laurentiis gave Lynch license to make a personal film with unheard of final cut rights: Blue Velvet.In this episode we return to
In this mega-episode we take Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK and run it through our HistoryCast 5000 machine for an in-depth analysis of its historical accuracy. We chose this film based on its notorious reputation for historical inaccuracy. Will
In our first installment of Script Bandits we examine the life of a female sword fighter turned opera singer who lived in France during the 1600s. She became famous, wooed men and women alike, and was briefly sentenced to death for infiltrating
The movie Weekend at Bernie's kicks off with two lowly employees discovering an accounting irregularity which they unknowingly bring to the perpetrator. After he is killed by the mob they keep up the ruse he is still alive to protect themselves
In this Very Local History episode we tackle the concept of "urban renewal," using Wilmington, North Carolina as a case study.In the 1970's the Downtown Area Revitalization Effort was formed to spearhead the transformation of the languishing
We’ve launched the HistoryCast 5000, a reoccurring segment in which Sean and Allen examine the historical accuracy of movies and other media. To break in the machine, we have selected a movie widely considered to be one of the most Read More ..
Last year the Midmost Coast podcast took a look at the pilot episode of Dawson's Creek, a teen drama produced out of our home base in Wilmington, North Carolina. Its impact to the area's television and film production community was significant,
Just upstream from the mouth of the Cape Fear River is a restricted military base, occupying thousands of acres of sprawling and undeveloped wetlands. Within it runs miles and miles of railway that leads to nowhere.The base is Sunny Point, al
Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman are executive producers on the new film Infinity Baby, in which Offerman's character is head of a company struggling to deal with hundreds of immortal three month old babies.This film was screened at the 23rd
We published this show late Thursday night after the first full day of films at the 2017 Cucalorus Film Festival, in its 23rd year out of Wilmington, North Carolina.The episode covers two blocks of short films, including interviews with Straw
This month we watch and talk about the film that built the movie industry in Wilmington, North Carolina. Firestarter starred a young Drew Barrymore, and was based on a novel by Stephen King. It was produced by Dino De Laurentiis who went on to
With Texas reeling from hurricane Harvey and hurricane Irma on track to be one of the most powerful storms ever on record, we spend this episode rhapsodizing about hurricane prep in coastal North Carolina. Towards the end we talk a little bit o
Shipwrecks. Rocket engines. U-boats. Atom bombs. Regular bombs. There's a lot of stuff in the water off the Carolina Coast and beyond, and we talk about them in this episode. Read More ...
In 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger came to the fair city of Wilmington, North Carolina to film an old fashioned rampage film called Raw Deal. Mostly mad cap and light-hearted, this film features some of the best and worst tropes of an 80's action fi
You might think Greenfield Lake is filled with water, but it is in fact filled with history. And that green stuff on top? Extra history. In this episode we fill out the backstory of Wilmington's once and future playground. Read More ...
We take a break form being serious with a holiday bonus episode. Our home base of Wilmington has hosted not one but two teen television dramas.Watching these shows is co-host Sean Gallagher's worst nightmare. Read More ...
The Fort Fisher Hermit was born in the 1890s, lived through the Great Depression, was committed to a mental institution by his in-laws, and ultimately became a local celebrity and tourist attraction on Pleasure Island. Read More ...
With a new King Kong movie in theaters, we look back at the 1986 film "King Kong Lives," filmed largely in Wilmington, NC, out of Dino De Laurentiis' freshly minted film studio. This movie didn't kill at the box office, but it did kill some car
In this bonus episode we talk with filmmaker Evan Kidd about his film Son of Clowns, its appearance at the Cucalorus Film Festival, and the future of filmmaking in North Carolina. Links Son of Clowns was featured in numerous film Read More ...
The port city of Wilmington, North Carolina once had an evil twin across the river. In the colonial days of America, Wilmington came out the victor in a struggle to the death.This is a gross dramatization of the story of Brunswick Town, the l
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