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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.

Ep194: No Rest for the WICK

The Kicking the Seat Podcast returns with a vengeance! Ian and fellow cinema assassins David Fowlie of Keeping it Reel and Emmanuel Noisette of Eman's Movie Reviews pull a contract on John Wick: Chapter 2--but not everyone is keen on pulling the trigger!

Also, Ian implores listeners to sharpen their thumbs (?) for tomorrow's F This Movie! Fest 6! Join Patrick Bromley and a global community of movie lovers for the world's only all-Twitter film festival as we rip and revere 1987 classics like The Princess Bride, Predator, and Raising Arizona!

As if that's not enough, you'll get a tease of Monday's episode, wherein Ian talks with first-time-feature filmmaker Dinesh Das Sabu about his stirring, personal, and eye-opening documentary, Unbroken Glass--which begins a week-long limited engagement at the Gene Siskel Film Center on February 17th (with Dinesh and special guests in attendance)!

Is there anything else? Oh, yeah! The Kicking the Seat Podcast is in a movie! What's that all about? Listen and learn!

Don't take it personally, gang: Episode 194 just wants its car back!

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Ep195: Reflections in an UNBROKEN GLASS w/ Dinesh Das Sabu

Ep193: COMEDY is King