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Ep1172: Scream 7 (2026) - Trailer Reaction

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2025/10/30

Believe it or not, Kicking the Seat has never done a trailer reaction video! That changes today, as Ian reviews the newly released Scream 7 preview!Original series writer Kevin Williamson steps into the director's chair for one last (?) showdown between Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and the latest incarnation of the Ghostface killer! Can Williamson reinvigorate a franchise that has more soft reboots than a computer made out of pillows? Or will this prove to be another in a long line of

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Ep1170: Scare-a-Thon 2025: Accademia Giallo: The...

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2025/10/26

How will the Accademia Giallo crew spend Spooky Season? By digging into The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, of course!(Or should we say, "of corpse"?)Emilio Miraglia's 1971 thriller stars Anthony Steffen as Lord Alan Cunningham, a rich, mentally unstable aristocrat obsessed with his beautiful, dead wife. After terrorizing exotic dancers and prostitutes, he settles down with Gladys (Marina Malfatti), whose wedded bliss is undone by apparitions and mysterious deaths around Alan's palatial estate

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Ep1169: Scare-a-Thon 20205: Dream Warriors Trilogy (A...

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2025/10/23

Bust out the coffee and No-Doz, and get ready to stay up late with Earth's Mightiest Critics!The entire Nightmare on Elm Street series recently made its 4K debut, and we're gearing up for a triple-feature roundtable review of the "Dream Warriors Trilogy". Parts 3, 4, and 5 of the fiendish Freddy franchise centers on the few remaining sleep-deprived Springwood teens whose nocturnal hours are haunted by an undead killer with a wit as sharp as his single metal glove.From the hospital to the high

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Ep1168: Scare-a-Thon 2025: Scary Movie (2020) and...

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2025/10/21

Scare-a-Thon is back...and sillier than ever!This very special Spooky Season episode was supposed to be a livestream, but a last-minute technical issue led to Ian and AC scuttling the show last minute. But you can't keep a great podcast down, and the guys are determined to look back at two films celebrating anniversaries this year: Keenean Ivory Wayans' 2000 blockbuster horror-movie satire, Scary Movie, and Monster A Go-Go from 1965, co-directed by Bill Rebane and Herschell Gordon Lewis!One film was

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Ep1167: Spooky Action Up Close: An Interview with...

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2025/10/21

You may know Crispin Hellion Glover as an eccentric character actor from classics films like Back to the Future, River’s Edge, and, of course, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter. But he's also a committed independent filmmaker.Earlier this month, he attended the press screening for his latest movie, No! You’re Wrong. Or: Spooky Action at a Distance at Chicago's Music Box Theatre--where he also performed a half-hour historical slideshow about the art and science of rat-catching for a handful of

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Ep1166: Featured Extras: F1: The Movie

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2025/10/19

Featured Extras returns with a look at Warner Bros' recently released 4K UHD of F1: THE MOVIE!Joseph Kosinski's blockbuster racing film was a much bigger hit overseas than domestically, but one of the year's best movies is now on home video--bringing with it a handful of fascinating special features.Ian has assembled a crack pit crew to talk about the various making-of segments, centering on the exciting practical-effects innovations that helped bring the film to life!Note: There was an issue with

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Ep1165: Tron: Ares (2025) - Live Roundtable Review

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2025/10/16

It may be "end of line" for Earth's Mightiest Critics as we sift through the corrupted-file wasteland of Tron: Ares!Jared Leto stars as the titular security program caught in the middle of a corporate struggle to bring digital avatars into the real world. Cue the light cycles, data discs, sky-beam portals, and a fistful of other jangling keys meant to distract from a story that literally sets the franchise back by more than a decade.The gang also looks at other franchises crushed under Disney’s IP

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Ep1164: A Little Prayer (2025) - Movie Review

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2025/10/13

Ian and David unlock a May 2025 time capsule with a review of Angus MacLachlan's small town drama, A Little Prayer!The film had its Midwest premiere at the Chicago Critics Film Festival in May, and recently became available On Demand. In this spoilerific discussion, the guys dig deep into this stunningly shot, beautifully acted story about an elderly father named Bill (David Strathairn) who discovers that his son, David (Will Pullen), is cheating on his wife, Tammy (Jane Levy). Complicating matters

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Ep1163: John Candy: I Like Me (2025) - Movie Review

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2025/10/11

Today, Earth's Mightiest Critics look back on the life of a comedy legend with an unconventional panel review of John Candy: I Like Me!Colin Hanks' presents a sprawling and thoroughly moving documentary about the star of SCTV, Uncle Buck, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, and dozens more comedy classics.Featuring interviews with co-stars, family, and friends, I Like Me paints a portrait of a man haunted by childhood tragedy who spent the rest of his life taking care of others (be it direct altruism

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Ep1162: The Smashing Machine (2025) - Live Roundtable...

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2025/10/09

Earth's Mightiest Critics tag team Dwayne Johnson's bid for Acting Oscar gold with a roundtable review of The Smashing Machine!Benny Safdie's biopic of UFC fighter Mark Kerr's rise and fall is definitely an A24 film: heavy on the drama, light on the sports movie cliches. Audiences, it seems, aren't too interested in "The Rock's" career outside the IP ring--but are they missing out?Join us for a spoilerific critics' cage-match! We also take your questions, comments, and SuperChats!Support Kicking the

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Ep1161: Are We Good? (2025) - Movie Review

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2025/10/07

It's "Podception Day" at Kicking the Seat, as two podcasters podcast about a podcasting pioneer!Steven Feinartz's documentary, Are We Good?, follows curmudgeonly comic Marc Maron through his early days on the standup scene, his battles with addiction, divorce, and losing the love of his life--all of which he has chronicled for nearly 16 years on his wildly influential show, "WTF with Marc Maron".The podcast is best known for getting high-profile guests (Barack Obama, Paul McCartney, Robin Williams)

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Ep1160: Good Boy (2025) - Movie Review

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2025/10/04

Today, Ian and Mark sniff out the good, the bad, and the ghastly with Ben Leonberg's Good Boy!The offbeat supernatural thriller centers on Indy, a loyal and lovable dog whose owner, Todd (Shane Jensen), has taken him along to a secluded family cabin. Over several days, Indy sees and hears (and dreams!) menacing, otherworldly things lurking in shadows and the overcast woods.Is something trying to possess his master? And what's with the other dog that keeps popping up, the creepy one with the red

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Ep1159: Hell of a Western: Interviews with Killing...

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2025/10/03

One of the year's best films opens in theaters this weekend, and today Ian sits down with Killing Faith star DeWanda Wise and writer/director Ned Crowley for a look at the making of this twisty, twisted, and powerful supernatural horror western!The film centers on Sarah (Wise), a freed slave living on the outskirts of a desert town in 1849. She is determined to get to her daughter to a faith healer (Bill Pullman) in a neighboring territory, in the hopes that he can exorcise whatever evil causes

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Ep1158: One Battle After Another (2025) - Live...

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2025/10/02

Critics are ecstatic over Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. On this week's livestream you'll hear the Mightiest of them discuss why it may be 2025's best film.You'll also get Ian's take.Join us for a spoilerific system smasher--along with your questions, comments, and SuperChats!Support Kicking the Seat on Patreon, subscribe to us on YouTube, and follow us at:XLetterboxdInstagramFacebookShow LinksWatch the One Battle After Another (2025) trailer.Support all of Earth's Mightiest

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Ep1157: Featured Extras: Superman (2025)

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2025/09/28

What's this? Ian had allegedly vowed not to talk about Superman 2025 after July's round table review; in fact, he'd announced a boycott of all DCU projects until writer/director/co-DCU head James Gunn stepped down.So what gives? Well, the movie recently landed on 4K and after another evaluation, Ian has decided that... It still doesn't work.But...There's a fascinating documentary in the supplementary materials called "Adventures in Making Superman" that is well worth the price of admission. This

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Ep1156: Say No More, Xenomorph: Alien Earth Ep 08 -...

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2025/09/26

Earth's Mightiest Critics have made their peace with Alien: Earth, and are prepared for an even-tempered, non-confrontational look at the Episode 8 Season Finale ("The Real Monsters").Oh, who're we kidding?We called it from Episode 1: This show is objectively awful, and we're here to break some coffins with the force of our righteous hammering!Watch the latest episode of Alien: Earth now on F/X/Hulu, then join us for a searing send-off--and an answer to The Big Question: "Will we bother coming back

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Ep1155: Him (2025) - Live Roundtable Review

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2025/09/25

Earth's Mightiest Critics suit up for a look at the latest Jordan Peele (produced) thriller, Him!It's "Any Given Sunday meets The Devil’s Advocate", starring Tyriq Withers as Cam Cade, a promising college football star who gets a chance to train with his pro-football hero, Isaiah White (Marlon Wayans). But during his grueling week at a state-of-the-art desert compound, Cam begins to suspect that fame and fortune might just come at a higher price than he'd...ahem...bargained for.There's no getting

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Ep1154: Doc and Cover: Spinal Tap 2 / Megadoc (2025)...

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2025/09/23

Ian and David crank things up to eleven with another---Nevermind. Not gonna finish that hackneyed joke.But it feeds right into today's double-feature review of Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues and Megadoc.What do a legacy sequel about a fake British rock band and a documentary about filming one of cinema's most notorious flops have to do with one another? More than you might expect, as we discover in this spoilerific deep dive.Spinal Tap 2 picks up with Nigel, David, and Derek reuniting for one last

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Ep1153: Say No More, Xenomorph: Alien Earth Ep 07 -...

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2025/09/19

Earth's Mightiest Critics are just about done with the Alien franchise--but Alien: Earth is not done with them!This week, we look at Episode 7, "Emergence", which finds many of the deep-space monsters breaking containment on Prodigy Island--leading to chest-bursting, jaw-ripping mayhem, and the World Record for "Most Ambushes in a 40-minute TV Show"!Join us as we hack our way through the rest of this nonsense jungle!We also take your questions, comments, and SuperChats!Support Kicking the Seat on

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Ep1151: Xanadu (1980) - Movie Review

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2025/09/17

Ian and Jeff strap on their skates and venture into the heady neon-glow of Xanadu!Robert Greenwald's 1980 musical fantasy stars Olivia Newton-John as Kira, a muse and daughter of Zeus, who seeks to inspire a struggling L.A. artist named Sonny Malone (Michael Beck). As romance blooms, Sonny meets a former magician-turned-construction-magnate named Danny McGuire (Gene Kelly), who dreams of opening up a nightclub--and who may have crossed paths with Kira during his days as an enlisted entertainer

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