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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.

Ep368: Miles Ahead

Today, the Kicking the Seat Podcast and Keeping it Reel's David Fowlie get caught up in one of the year's very best films, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse! The guys dig into what makes this alternate-universe take on the web-slinging comics hero different from previous big-screen incarnations, and definitive in its understanding of the character's uniqueness.

They also unleash some opinions on Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs and combat noise pollution!

Episode 368 is a bona fide turtle-slapper!

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Ep369: High Tide

Ep367: Page2Screen: The Edge of the Desert