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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.

Marvel Cinematic Universe REVIEWS...Ranked

Marvel Cinematic Universe REVIEWS...Ranked

Every once in awhile, a listicle emerges that is so pointless and self-serving as to render an entire genre of Internet content unnecessary. I humbly submit this piece as a contender.

The following is not my ranking of MCU films, but rather my commentary about them. Some are podcast episodes; some are exhausting exhaustive reviews; others are fake transcripts of real meetings.* In assembling this list, I realized that I've neither written about nor formally discussed the movie that started it all, 2008's Iron Man.

I'll have to right that wrong someday. For now, please enjoy Kicking the Seat's road to Endgame.

1. Doctor Strange

2. Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2

3. Iron Man 2

4. Captain America: Civil War

5. Captain Marvel

6. Black Panther (and the conclusion of that discussion)

7. Avengers Endgame

8. Avengers: Infinity War 

9. Ant-Man and the Wasp

10. Spider-Man: Homecoming

11. Avengers: Age of Ultron

12. Captain America: The Winter Soldier

13. Captain America: The First Avenger

14. The Avengers

15. Guardians of the Galaxy

16. Iron Man 3

17. Ant-Man

18. Thor: The Dark World

19. Thor: Ragnarok

20. Thor

21. The Incredible Hulk

*I assume.

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Kicking the Seat's Top 18 Films of 2018

Kicking the Seat's Top 18 Films of 2018