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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.

Ep334: Late Screening: SAVING's Bond

Today, Cole Rush of ColeTries.com joins Ian for another installment of "Late Screening"--the monthly series in which the guys watch and discuss a film that Cole really should have seen by now. Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan came out almost exactly twenty years ago, and the story of American soldiers venturing into Nazi-occupied France on an unconventional rescue mission still towers above most war movies.

Ian and Cole set aside the silliness (mostly) for an earnest look at what makes Saving Private Ryan special; what it says about the generations that followed the Greatest one; and how cast-recognition affected their experience of watching the movie.

Also, the guys tease the next installment of their "Page 2 Screen" series, which will be here faster than you can say, "Expecto Patronum"!

Episode 334 would've chosen anyone but Upham!

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Ep335: Great CMXpectations

Ep333: Wakandaboutism