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 Noé, Rachel Brosnahan, Amy 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.
The marketing geniuses at Lionsgate have been upping the ante in preparation for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part One's November 21st release. Kicking off with a series of eerie Panem propaganda posters, and now with an address by President Snow (Donald Sutherland) to his starving subjugates, this artsy approach to promoting the franchise is, frankly, refreshing.
Check out the PSA below, and visit the Hunger Games YouTube channel for more updates!
