Kicking the Seat

Joe Swanberg's new dramedy, The Sun Never Sets , was the closing night event of 2026's Chicago Critics Film Festival. Following the May premiere, Ian and David sat down for a spoilerific look at one of the year's best...

Why do June and July get all the fun movie mash-ups? Nothing says "August" like a new Jason Staham movie and an early-Awards Season contender from A24. So, what do you get when you cross Mutiny with Tony ? Mutony , of...

Summer's almost over...let's go camping! This week, Ian and Jeff look at the indie-horror meta sensation, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma ! Writer director Jane Schoenbrun follows up 2024's I Saw the TV Glow with a...

Is Eli Roth's Ice Cream Man a scream--or a yawn? This week, Ian and Jeff scrape the bottom of the pint to find out if the creator of Thanksgiving , Hostel , and Cabin Fever can still get audiences' blood pumping. When a...

It's a Brand New Day for Spider-Man -- and Kicking the Seat! In a world where everyone has forgotten that Peter Parker is Spider-Man (and in which Peter Parker doesn't technically exist), the wall-crawling web-slinger...

There's a reason 1972 is considered giallo's golden year: When a movie called Death Walks at Midnight has a synopsis like this... "During a drug-fuelled photoshoot, a model witnesses a brutal murder in the apartment...

Kicking the Seat navigates the choppy waters of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey ! The writer/director's latest destroyed box office records on its opening weekend, and is selling out round-the-clock 70MM IMAX screenings...

Ian and Jeff take to the streets in search of cinematic justice! Their first target: Uwe Boll's controversial, anti-immigration polemic, Citizen Vigilante ! Armie Hammer stars as Sanders, a former American soldier...

The lesson of Disclosure Day is that the truth is out there...and no one cares! Steven Spielberg's return to sci-fi with a movie that's less close encounter than close call. Josh O'Connor and Emily Blunt star as two...

<p >The lesson of Disclosure Day is that the truth is out there...and no one cares!</p><p >Steven Spielberg's return to sci-fi with a movie that's less close encounter than close call. Josh O'Connor and Emily Blunt star...

<p >We. Have. THE POWERRRRRR!!!!</p><p >Or do we?</p><p >Many of Earth's Mightiest Critics really enjoyed Travis Knight's Masters of the Universe--then again, we were the select few who actually bothered to watch this...

<p >This week, Earth's Mightiest Critics take on the film that killed Star Wars! Okay, technically, Obsession did that a few days ago, but we're talking about the number one film at the box office: Backrooms!</p><p...

<p >Star Wars is back! Kinda...</p><p >This week, Earth's Mightiest Critics resurrect their Mandalorian review series, "What if He Doesn't Survive?", for a live roundtable review of Season 4. Officially, this is a...

<p >Everybody's talking about Obsession, but the conversation doesn't truly begin until Earth's Mightiest Critics chime in!</p><p >This week, the gang looks at Curry Barker's bold new horror film, which some are already...

<p >Why not round out the school year with a relaxing trip to Venice? Well, none of us can afford that, so we'll just talk about Who Saw Her Die? instead!</p><p >Aldo Lado's 1972 thriller stars George Lazenby and Anita...