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Broadcasting from the campus of Gulf Coast State College in Panama City, we are the Emerald Coast’s local public radio station. Our mixed format lineup of shows provides listeners with national, local, and student-produced cultural programming, news, and a variety of music to enrich your day. Our on-air personalities engage listeners by igniting curiosity, enriching minds, and cultivating relationships within the Emerald Coast Community through our high-quality, thought-provoking content. 90.7 WKGC Public Media--education, entertainment, and everything in between.

  1. APR 6

    ReelTalk 04/06/2026 THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD 75th Anniversary with Sean Boelman

    Seventy-five years ago, audiences walked into movie theaters expecting a monster movie—What they got instead was something far more unsettling. In 1951, The Thing from Another World arrived at a moment when the world itself felt uncertain. The Second World War had ended, the Cold War was beginning, and humanity was staring into the unknown—into the atomic age, into the skies above, and into the possibility that science might carry us farther than we were prepared to go. This was not the Gothic horror of castles and graveyards. This was modern horror. Scientific horror. Ideological horror. The monster in this film did not rise from superstition; it came from beyond our atmosphere. And that distinction mattered. Because for the first time, the threat on screen reflected a new kind of fear: not fear of the past, but fear of the future. As explored in Monsters, Madness, and Mayhem, this film sits at the crossroads of fascination and anxiety—where scientific progress collides with the primal instinct to survive. It’s a story driven not by revenge or malice, but by survival, by preservation, and by the consequences of failing to recognize danger when it stands right in front of us. And perhaps that is why the film still resonates seventy-five years later. Because beneath the Arctic ice, beneath the flying saucer, beneath the pulsing science fiction spectacle, lies a very human question: What happens when curiosity outruns caution? Today on ReelTalk, we’re celebrating the 75th anniversary of a film that helped define the modern science fiction horror movie—a film that transformed the monster from myth into metaphor, and helped usher in an era where the greatest fears were no longer supernatural…but ideological. Joining me once again is returning guest and friend of the show, film critic Sean Boelman—editor and contributor at FandomWire, member of the Critics Choice Association, and the Critics Association of Central Florida.

    58 min

  2. APR 2

    SOUND SESSIONS 03/31/2026 presenting the St. Patrick's Day episode

    After technical difficulties on the 17th of March prevented the Sound Sessions St. Patrick's Day episode from broadcasting, host Tom Hoots got the entire crew back together this week to bring to you what you should have heard on the 17th.

    1 hr

  3. MAR 30

    ReelTalk 03/30/2026 reviewing PROJECT HAIL MARY with Gino Sassani

    It isn’t often anymore that we experience a movie that reminds us why we fell in love with the movies in the first place. Not because it reinvents the wheel… but because it understands how the wheel works. Project Hail Mary is that kind of film. It’s big, bold science fiction—filled with cosmic stakes and dazzling visuals—but at its core, it’s built on something far simpler and far more enduring: character, friendship, and sacrifice. It’s a story about an ordinary man placed in extraordinary circumstances, forced to confront not only the fate of his world, but the measure of his own courage. And in many ways, it feels like a throwback. Not nostalgic, exactly—but classical. A film that trusts storytelling fundamentals: clear stakes, emotional investment, and a hero who doesn’t begin as heroic at all. He begins as frightened. Reluctant. Human. That’s not to say the movie is perfect. The translation from page to screen brings with it some uneven pacing, and a few plot mechanics that feel compressed or occasionally clunky. You can sense the weight of Andy Weir’s dense scientific storytelling pressing against the boundaries of cinematic time. But when the film works—and it works often—it works because it remembers something essential. Spectacle may draw us in…but emotion is what keeps us there. In this episode, we’re talking about a movie that embraces old-fashioned Hollywood storytelling in the best possible sense—a film that reminds us that sincerity is not weakness, that optimism is not naïve, and that sometimes the most powerful stories are the ones that bring people together rather than push them apart. Joining me once again is returning guest and friend of the show, film critic Gino Sassani.

    55 min

  4. MAR 16

    Sound Sessions 03/10/2026 featuring Steve Monce

    On this episode of Sound Sessions, host Tom Hoots features singer/songwriter Steve Monce.

    58 min

  5. MAR 10

    ReelTalk 03/09/2026 reviewing THE BRIDE! with Brad of The Cinema Speak Podcast

    There’s a good movie somewhere inside The Bride!—perhaps several. The irony is that Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ambitious reimagining of the Frankenstein mythos feels almost as stitched together as the monster at its center. The film clearly springs from a place of imagination and artistic ambition, drawing inspiration from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and James Whale’s immortal Bride of Frankenstein from 1935. But ambition alone doesn’t always produce cohesion. Gyllenhaal’s picture is an unusual mix of gothic romance, crime drama, musical spectacle, and monster movie. And that mixture is both the film’s greatest strength and its biggest challenge. There are moments of genuine cinematic electricity here—particularly in the performances, the cinematography, and the surprising nods to classic Warner Bros. song-and-dance spectacles. But the screenplay struggles to unify its many influences. What we get is a film assembled from fascinating narrative parts that never quite fuse into a single organism. Still, there is much here worth discussing—from the performances of Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, to the film’s unusual tonal mixture of gothic romance, crime drama, and musical fantasy. Joining me today is returning guest and friend of the show Brad Biewer, host of the Cinema Speak podcast.

    59 min

  6. MAR 6

    Sound Sessions 03/03/2026 featuring Mitch Pierson and Alex Napier

    On this episode of Sound Sessions, host Tom Hoots invites Mitch Pierson and Alex Napier into Studio 314 to delight you with a tiny desk concert and talk about their careers in music.

    59 min

  7. MAR 2

    ReelTalk 03/02/2026 reviewing SCREAM 7 with Sean Boelman

    There is a difference between resurrecting a franchise and reviving its pulse. Scream 7 understands that distinction. This latest installment does not attempt to eclipse the peerless 1996 original, nor does it double down on the tonal divergence introduced in entries five and six. Instead, it recalibrates. It restores the whodunit spine. It re-centers Sidney Prescott, Gale Weathers, and a classically-derived Ghostface. It reasserts consequence in a franchise that had begun flirting with narrative immunity. In my review, I argue that Scream 7 aligns more closely with Scream 2–4 than with the reboot-era entries. If Scream 4 ushered the franchise into the digital age—interrogating celebrity culture, victimhood-as-currency, and the corrosive influence of social media—then Scream 7 feels like a cultural correction. It gestures back toward authenticity, toward analog suspense, toward a slasher that trusts structure over spectacle. And yet, the film’s release has not been judged solely on its craftsmanship. The production circumstances surrounding Melissa Barrera’s departure shaped both the creative reset and the critical climate. But separating controversy from craft is essential if we are to evaluate the film honestly. Joining me today is returning guest and friend of the show—FandomWire Editor, film critic Sean Boelman. Sean is also a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Critics Association of Central Florida, of which I too am a member.

    58 min

  8. FEB 27

    Sound Sessions 02/24/2026 featuring Haunted Like Human and Nora Bass

    On this episode of Sound Sessions, host Tom Hoots invited Haunted Like Human into Studio 314 to entertain you with a tiny desk concert and talk about what's going on in their music journeys.

    59 min
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Broadcasting from the campus of Gulf Coast State College in Panama City, we are the Emerald Coast’s local public radio station. Our mixed format lineup of shows provides listeners with national, local, and student-produced cultural programming, news, and a variety of music to enrich your day. Our on-air personalities engage listeners by igniting curiosity, enriching minds, and cultivating relationships within the Emerald Coast Community through our high-quality, thought-provoking content. 90.7 WKGC Public Media--education, entertainment, and everything in between.

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  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
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