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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.

Ep982: GOJIRA X GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS! - LIVE Round Table Review

Ep982: GOJIRA X GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS! - LIVE Round Table Review

Though there's a "new" dueling-giant-monsters movie now in theaters, Earth's Mightiest Critics are doing something a bit different this week: We're traveling back 70 years to the King of All Monster Movies: Godzilla!

But this show isn't just about Ishiro Honda's 1954 Japanese film, Gojira--it's also a compare-and-contrast discussion of the "Americanized" 1956 version, Godzilla: King of the Monsters!

Who will win? And what will be left of the panel when the dust clears?

Join us as we take on these twin titans of towering terror--and answer your questions, comments, and SuperChats!

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Ep983: HOUSE OF WAX (1953) and MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933) - LIVE Movie Reviews

Ep983: HOUSE OF WAX (1953) and MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933) - LIVE Movie Reviews

Ep981: There's No Stalgia Like Nostalgia: THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST and LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL

Ep981: There's No Stalgia Like Nostalgia: THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST and LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL