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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.

ETERNALS Round Table Review

ETERNALS Round Table Review

Earth's Mightiest Critics re-team to take on the Eternals!

Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao directs Marvel's millennia-spanning epic, in which ancient super-beings come together to stop other ancient super-beings from destroying reality...or something. Eternals has an ambitious scope, star power to spare, and more controversy surrounding it than any MCU film in recent memory.

Find out what the EMC has to say about all of it--including whether or not the film itself is worth all the chatter!

And stay til the end for details on our next weekly livestream series...coming soon!

Show Links

Ep723: There's No Stalgia Like Nostalgia: SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG

Ep723: There's No Stalgia Like Nostalgia: SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG

Ep722: My Kinda Fiction w/ ROY'S WORLD Director Rob Christopher

Ep722: My Kinda Fiction w/ ROY'S WORLD Director Rob Christopher