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Welcome to Kicking the Seat!

Ian Simmons launched Kicking the Seat in 2009, one week after seeing Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia. His wife proposed blogging as a healthier outlet for his anger than red-faced, twenty-minute tirades (Ian is no longer allowed to drive home from the movies).

The Kicking the Seat Podcast followed three years later and, despite its “undiscovered gem” status, Ian thoroughly enjoys hosting film critic discussions, creating themed shows, and interviewing such luminaries as Gaspar NoéRachel BrosnahanAmy Seimetz, and Richard Dreyfuss.

Ian is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. He also has a family, a day job, and conflicted feelings about referring to himself in the third person.

Ep522: Insert Coffee Pun Here

Today, the Kicking the Seat Podcast and Don Shanahan of Every Movie Has a Lesson partner up for a look at Netflix's latest action/comedy, Coffee & Kareem! Ed Helms stars as a bumbling Detroit cop who teams with his would-be stepson to stop a gang of upstart drug dealers.

Is this the next Beverly Hills Cop or the next Cop Out? And how far can one film go in pushing a child actor into adult situations before someone alerts the authorities? Ian and Don tackle these questions and more in this arresting, spoilerific chat!

Also, Ian recommends two podcasts that he appeared on last week, 90 Under 90 (in which he discusses Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask), and the Movie Madness Podcast with Erik Childress (in which he shares nine of his top films from the last decade in Erik's "The Essentials" miniseries)!

Episode 522 is busting out of movie jail!

Show Guide:

Intro Music: 0:00 - 0:14

Intro: 0:14 - 3:24

Coffee & Kareem Trailer: 3:24 - 5:41

Coffee & Kareem Discussion: 5:41 - 43:16

Outro Music: 43:16 - 43:32

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