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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.

Ep16: 2008 Summer Blockbuster Retrospective

It's April, Everyone! Prepare to be showered by new episodes of the KtS Podcast!

That's right, I said "epsiodes". Today kicks off a multi-part retrospective of 2008's big summer movies by me, Matt, and Graham. Thrill to our slobbering adoration of Iron Man, our shrugging respect for Wall-E, and our amnesiac struggles to remember much of anything about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!

If that's not enough, stay tuned for our ultra-geeky dissection of that year's biggest movie, The Dark Knight!

And be sure to join us next week, when we'll dive into the mega-flops of the 2008 popcorn season. It should be quite The Happening!

Row, Row, Row Your Boat Gently Through the Basement

Ep15: Oddly Great and Powerful with Matt and Graham!