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.
Let's face it: The KtS Podcast will likely never do a proper summer wrap-up. The fates conspire against us at every turn, and now we're jumping headlong into fall. So it goes.
This week, Ian, Matt, Graham, and Denitsa talk a little bit of everything--Soderbergh's new re-scored, black-and-white cut of Raiders of the Lost Ark; the Rapture; Arrow, Gotham (sorta); Godzilla; the Chicago Blackhawks; and God knows what else. Strap in for the terrifically tangent-tinged Episode 73!
