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 Noé, Rachel Brosnahan, Amy 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.
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Cormac McCarthy’s Der Passagier (The Passenger) is a complex, philosophical novel that departs from the visceral violence of his earlier works like Blood Meridian while maintaining his trademark sparse, punctuation-free style. Cormac McCarthy Der Passagier rar
Bobby investigates a sunken jet where nine bodies are still buckled in, but the pilot's bag, the black box, and a tenth passenger are missing. Set in 1980, the narrative follows , a
Following this discovery, Bobby is shadowed by mysterious federal agents, leading him to flee across the American South and eventually to an abandoned oil rig. Following this discovery, Bobby is shadowed by mysterious
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