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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.

Ep1017: If You Like LONGLEGS (2024), You'll Love MANHUNTER (1986)

Ep1017: If You Like LONGLEGS (2024), You'll Love MANHUNTER (1986)

According to the Internet, Oz Perkins' new film, Longlegs, is the bestest, most scariest horror film in, like, seven generations!

Earth's Mightiest Critics will be the judge of that!

Join us for a look at this 2024 serial killer movie set in the 1990s, and see how it stacks up to an actual 1980s serial killer movie, which boasts the big-screen debut of Hannibal Lecter (or, as it was spelled back then, “Lektor”)!

That's right, we're also talking Michael Mann's 1986 thriller, Manhunter!

Strap in for spoilers about stalkers in stockings--and the answers to your questions, comments, and SuperChats!

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Ep1018: There's No Stalgia Like Nostalgia: FEMALE TROUBLE (1974)

Ep1018: There's No Stalgia Like Nostalgia: FEMALE TROUBLE (1974)

Ep1016: SORRY/NOT SORRY (2024) - Movie Review

Ep1016: SORRY/NOT SORRY (2024) - Movie Review