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 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.

Kaam Purush -2023- Season 2 Primeshots Original -

Overview Kaam Purush Season 2 (PrimeShots Original, 2023) is a morally complex, character-driven series that interrogates desire, power, and consequence in contemporary urban India. Building on the first season’s psychological intensity, Season 2 shifts registers—deepening moral ambiguity, widening social stakes, and complicating the protagonist’s interior life. The show uses genre-blurring (psychological thriller + social drama) to explore how longing shapes identity and how transactional relationships mutate into systems of control.