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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.

Ep995: THE FALL GUY (2024) - LIVE Round Table Review

Ep995: THE FALL GUY (2024) - LIVE Round Table Review

Get banged-up and bruised with Earth's Mightiest Critics as we take on The Fall Guy!

David Leitch's latest outing is a love letter to the profession that gave him a career: professional stuntwork. Ryan Gosling plays Colt Seavers, the years-long stunt double for the world's biggest (and most egotistical) action star, Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). When Tom goes missing, Colt is enlisted by a high-powered producer (Hannah Waddington) to get him back to set and save the production for director Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt)--who also happens to be Colt's crush!

That's the movie sold in the trailers, anyway.

The actual Fall Guy is something very different. Join us as we smash, crash, and through the latest big-screen adaptation of a long-lost TV show--and take your questions, comments, and SuperChats! Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week! http://www.kickseat.com/

Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week!

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Ep996: DANDELION (2024) - Movie Review + Red Carpet Interview w/ KIKI LAYNE!

Ep996: DANDELION (2024) - Movie Review + Red Carpet Interview w/ KIKI LAYNE!

Ep994: Ford in Focus: THE FUGITIVE (1993) - Movie Review

Ep994: Ford in Focus: THE FUGITIVE (1993) - Movie Review