Kicking the Seat Ian Simmons

Gather 'round for the fight of the century as Earth's Mightiest Critics take on Godzilla Minus One--and each other!Takashi Yamazaki's critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning international sensation is Finally on Netflix, and you won't want to miss this charged-up, nuclear-powered debate.How does Minus One stack up to other Godzilla films--specifically Ishiro Honda's 1954 Gojira? Does heroism matter in action movies? And how many non-Godzilla tangents can we possibly get drawn into, thanks to our overly enthusiastic chat?Find out now and see our responses to your questions, comments, and SuperChats!Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week!Show LinksWatch the Godzilla Minus One trailer.Catch up with our recent look at the 1954 Gojira, and its "Americanized" 1956 remake!Get cookin' with our returning special guest, the "Resin Chef" himself, monster-model-maker Bill Gudmundson!Support all of Earth's Mightiest Critics at their various outlets:Check out Mark "The Movie Man" Krawczyk's The Spoiler Room Podcast.Keep up with Jeff York's criticism and caricatures at The Establishing Shot.Get seated with The Blonde in Front!Follow David Fowlie's film criticism at Keeping It Reel.Get educated with Don Shanahan at Every Movie Has a Lesson…...And Film Obsessive...and the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.Keep up with Annie Banks at The Mary Sue....and We Got This Covered.Make Nice with Mike Crowley of You'll Probably Agree.And stir things up with Will Johnson of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.

With nothing new of note in theaters this week, and a cacophony of doomsayers predicting the death of cinema (again), it's time for Earth's Mightiest Critics to assess the landscape and offer some hope--tentative as it may be--for our beloved art form.Join us for a round table discussion about the current state of blockbusters, indies, movie theaters, and streaming services--and our best guesses for the future.We also take your questions, comments, and SuperChats!Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week!Show LinksAs a launching point, we look at Matt Zoller Seitz's recent piece for rogerebert.com, in which he proposes ways to get people back to the movies.And catch up with some of our earlier takes on this subject:Looking at 2020's blockbuster slate and their streaming prospects.And the quaint little time capsule that was "Inbreak", where the panel talked about their favorite movies to watch during a pandemic (which, at the time, was limited to "2 weeks to slow the spread")!Support all of Earth's Mightiest Critics at their various outlets:Check out Mark "The Movie Man" Krawczyk's The Spoiler Room Podcast.Keep up with Jeff York's criticism and caricatures at The Establishing Shot.Get seated with The Blonde in Front!Follow David Fowlie's film criticism at Keeping It Reel.Get educated with Don Shanahan at Every Movie Has a Lesson…...And Film Obsessive...and the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.Make Nice with Mike Crowley of You'll Probably Agree.Keep up with Annie Banks at Chuck Load of Comics....and MoviewebAnd stir things up with Will Johnson of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.

Ian, Jeff, and Cati take a leisurely stroll through the mayhem and carnage of In a Violent Nature!In this spoilerific (and highly contentious) review we analyze the good, the bad, the meandering, and the gross of writer/director Chris Nash's arthouse take on the teens-in-the-woods slasher. When a gaggle of drunk Canadian college kids swipes a locket from the burned-out remains of a wooded mining camp, they unleash a vengeful spirit who stalks and eviscerates them during one night of pure hell.(But enough about the pacing!)If you're thinking, "I've seen that movie a hundred times before!"--we assure you, Nash's take is quite different. The question is, will this grisly, pseudo-POV horror film will test your patience or breathe new life into a zombified genre?Watch our inquisitive and cutting commentary, and find out!Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week! http://www.kickseat.com/Show LinksWatch the In a Violent Nature trailer.Support our gregarious guest critics at their various outlets:Get seated with The Blonde in FrontKeep up with Jeff York's criticism and caricatures at The Establishing Shot.…And Pipeline Artists!

So much for summer movie saviors! Warner Bros' Furiosa stalled at the box office opening weekend, making it the weakest Memorial Day Weekend offering in four decades. But does the film deserve to be ignored--or are audiences missing out?Earth's Mightiest Critics scour 2024's wreckage-strewn blockbuster wasteland in search of answers, starting with a round table review of this prequel to 2015's Fury Road.Join us for our fuel-injected findings on Furiosa; our thoughts on a summer blockbuster season that's barely rolled up to the starting line, and your questions, comments, and SuperChats!Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week!Show LinksWatch the Furiosa trailer.Support all of Earth's Mightiest Critics at their various outlets:Check out Mark "The Movie Man" Krawczyk's The Spoiler Room Podcast.Keep up with Jeff York's criticism and caricatures at The Establishing Shot.Get seated with The Blonde in Front!Follow David Fowlie's film criticism at Keeping It Reel.Get educated with Don Shanahan at Every Movie Has a Lesson…...And Film Obsessive...and the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.Make Nice with Mike Crowley of You'll Probably Agree.Keep up with Annie Banks at Chuck Load of Comics....and MoviewebAnd stir things up with Will Johnson of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.

Bring plenty of cash, 'cause "Accademia Giallo" is going Dutch with our live round table review of Amsterdamned!In Dick Maas' 1988 thriller, a hard-boiled police detective sets out to capture a gruesome serial killer terrorizing the canals of Amsterdam.Join us as we clog the channel with various skewed angles --and take your questions, comments, and Super Chats!Show LinksWatch the Amsterdamned trailer.In honor of Peter Cushing's birthday, check out Horror 101 w/ Dr. AC's recent round table retrospective of the Hammer Frankenstein films (featuring Ian)!And be sure to pick up your copy of Blake's Scored to Death album (available on CD or the sweet mystery-color vinyl that Ian showed off during the show)!Support all of our terrifying teachers' axe-tracurricular activities!Stay studious with Aaron Christensen at Horror101 with Dr. AC!If you dare, venture down into Kitley's Krypt with Jon Kitley! And listen to Jon's scary-good podcast, Discover the Horror!Get devious with Bryan Martinez's Film Deviant podcast!And check out his YouTube show, The Giallo Room!Buy J. Blake Fichera's "Scored to Death" Volume I and II on Amazon (mentioned in the show).And catch up with classic episodes of his Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers podcast!Continue your education with our "Accademia Giallo" Playlist!

It's hard to believe Pulp Fiction turns 30 this year. It's even harder to believe that there are now one thousand episodes of the Kicking the Seat Podcast!Earth's Mightiest Critics give "The Royale Treatment" to Quentin Tarantino's decade-defining crime/comedy masterpiece. Sure, it's the movie Ian has seen the most times in a theater, but does it hold up three decades on? And what can we learn from this blood-soaked, star-studded indie, when comparing it to modern-day films?Join us for a look back on 3 decades of dancing, adrenaline, and dynamic dialogue--and your questions, comments, and SuperChats!Subscribe, like, and comment to the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel, and check out kickseat.com for multiple movie podcasts each week!Show LinksWatch the Pulp Fiction trailer.Support all of Earth's Mightiest Critics at their various outlets:Check out Mark "The Movie Man" Krawczyk's The Spoiler Room Podcast.Keep up with Jeff York's criticism and caricatures at The Establishing Shot.Get seated with The Blonde in Front!Follow David Fowlie's film criticism at Keeping It Reel.Get educated with Don Shanahan at Every Movie Has a Lesson…...And Film Obsessive...and the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.Make Nice with Mike Crowley of You'll Probably Agree.Keep up with Annie Banks at Chuck Load of Comics....and MoviewebAnd stir things up with Will Johnson of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast.Die-hard KtS fans will know that Pulp Fiction has already made an appearance on the show. You can check out Ian's "Late Screening" review with Cole Rush, from the occasion of the movie's 25th anniversary.And listen to our only other "Royale Treatment" episode to date: a review of Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood!