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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.

Ep234: Wreck in Effects

Today, the Kicking the Seat Podcast and Keeping it Reel's David Fowlie transform into critics who care enough about The Last Knight to talk about it for forty-five minutes. If you want to spare yourself the time and expense of enduring Michael Bay's latest, utterly nonsensical two-and-a-half-hour "film", listen to this episode twice--then read David's zero-star review three times veeeery slowly. You'll thank us later.

Episode 234 needs a shower, a tow, and a lobotomy!

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Ep235: Revving Up BABY

Ep233: Amirpour de Force / Ana Lily Amirpour Pt. 2