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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.

Ep391: The Indispensables

Today, the Kicking the Seat Podcast and Keeping it Reel's David Fowlie head deep into the jungle to take on J.C. Chandor's Triple Frontier! The recently released Netflix heist flick starring Ben Affleck and Oscar Isaac isn't at all what the guys expected. In this spoiler-free discussion they get into the ways Chandor and Oscar-nominated writer Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty) differentiate their film from countless others they'd assumed it would mimic.

Also, Ian and David talk about the future of feature-film streaming, and how they decide whether or not they'll leave the house to see a movie.

Episode 391 is the safe!

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Ep392: Continental Divide

Ep390: Late Screening: Green Vegetables