MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat Roundtable for "The Super Mario Bros. Movie"

The roundtables on Ian Simmons of the Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel are the place to be. For the runaway hit, The Super Mario Bros. movie any and all of “Earth’s Mightiest Critics” (and their children) could be occupy one or more sections of audience demographics for the video game-inspired flick. As it turns out, we all fell in different places. Enjoy Ian, myself, Mike Crowley of You’ll Probably Agree, Mark Krawczyk of Special Mark Productions, and Jeff York of The Establishing Shot talking out our mixed feelings.

MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat's "What If He Doesn't Survive?" The Mandalorian S3E7

This marks a triumphant return to Star Wars content coverage for Ian Simmons of the Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel. The Book of Boba Fett didn’t go over so well. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Andor have come and gone. Season 3 of The Mandalorian bring back Ian and “Earth’s Mightiest Critics” to the exploits of our favorite babysitting gunslinger. Enjoy The roundtables on Ian Simmons of the Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel are the place to be. For the runaway hit, The Super Mario Bros. movie any and all of “Earth’s Mightiest Critics” (and their children) could be occupy one or more sections of audience demographics for the video game-inspired flick. As it turns out, we all fell in different places. Enjoy Ian, myself, Mike Crowley of You’ll Probably Agree, Mark Krawczyk of Special Mark Productions, and Jeff York of The Establishing Shot talking all things The Mandalorian.

MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat's "What If He Doesn't Survive?" The Mandalorian S3E3

This marks a triumphant return to Star Wars content coverage for Ian Simmons of the Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel. The Book of Boba Fett didn’t go over so well. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Andor have come and gone. Season 3 of The Mandalorian bring back Ian and “Earth’s Mightiest Critics” to the exploits of our favorite babysitting gunslinger. Enjoy Ian, myself, Mark Krawczyk of Special Mark Productions, David Fowlie of Keeping It Reel, and Jeff York of The Establishing Shot talking all things The Mandalorian.

MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat's "What If He Doesn't Survive?" The Mandalorian S3E2

This marks a triumphant return to Star Wars content coverage for Ian Simmons of the Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel. The Book of Boba Fett didn’t go over so well. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Andor have come and gone. Season 3 of The Mandalorian bring back Ian and “Earth’s Mightiest Critics” to the exploits of our favorite babysitting gunslinger. Enjoy Ian, myself, Mike Crowley of You’ll Probably Agree, David Fowlie of Keeping It Reel, and Jeff York of The Establishing Shot talking all things The Mandalorian.

MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat YouTube roundtable talking "Cocaine Bear"

Let the record show that Ian Simmons of the Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel is not a cocaine user… at least that we know of! However, we’ve got a hot new movie where a black bear in Georgia can’t get enough of the great Nose Candy. History had that bear ingest 75 pounds of coke. Audiences get to ingest far more pounds of Ian and “Earth’s Mightiest Critics” to talk about Cocaine Bear. Enjoy Ian, myself, Mark Krawczyk of Special Mark Productions, David Fowlie of Keeping It Reel, and Jeff York of The Establishing Shot snorting and chortling hard for Cocaine Bear.

MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat's "What If He Doesn't Survive?" The Mandalorian S3E1

This marks a triumphant return to Star Wars content coverage for Ian Simmons of the Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel. The Book of Boba Fett didn’t go over so well. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Andor have come and gone. Season 3 of The Mandalorian bring back Ian and “Earth’s Mightiest Critics” to the exploits of our favorite babysitting gunslinger. Enjoy Ian, myself, Annie Banks of Chuck Load of Comics, David Fowlie of Keeping It Reel, and Jeff York of The Establishing Shot talking all things The Mandalorian.

MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat YouTube roundtable talking "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania"

MY 100TH GUEST APPEARANCE ON KICKING THE SEAT PROGRAMMING!

As many of you loyal followers may know, friend-of-the-page Ian Simmons of the Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel has been on a year-long moratorium from comic book movies and shows. It has spanned since last May with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. At many times since then, I can’t blame him and envy him. His one caveat was watching things his son wanted to watch. That’s what brings him to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Oh, the woes of being a good parent and a cool dad!

MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on "Manly Movies" Podcast talking the manliest movies of 2022

J.B. Huffman is a voracious movie fan who has a temperament for examining and celebrating all forms of masculinity. As a fellow father, those stories and archetypes grab him the most to the point where he decided to make a podcast series dedicated to the movies that hit us dads. Welcome to Manly Movies! Like all good men, he doesn’t do anything half-ass. I was honored to participate as J.B.’s guest to share our Top 10 lists of the manliest movies of 2022.

Media Appearance, Podcast, Social Media, SPECIAL, 2020Don ShanahanFebruary 15, 2023AMC River East 21Podcast, Manly Movies, J.B. Huffman, Best of 2022Comment

MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat YouTube roundtable talking "Avatar: The Way of Water"

While not all of us on the dais look like Gloria Stuart who said, “It’s been 84 years…” in James Cameron’s Titanic, it has been a long 13 years since the 3D watershed of Avatar. Ian Simmons of the Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel gathered myself, David Fowlie of Keeping It Reel, Mark Krawczyk of Special Mark Productions, and Jeff York of The Establishing Shot to discuss the hotly anticipated sequel and holiday hitter Avatar: The Way of Water. We sure talked until a few of us were blue in the face (and tardy from technical difficulties as I was).

MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on "Cinema Royale" Podcast talking "Babylon"

This week, I was honored to be invited as a guest on the Cinema Royale podcast presented by Punch Drunk Critics hosted by Travis Hopson. The Washington, D.C.-based film critic and site founder is a fellow member of the Critics Choice Association. I had the distinct pleasure to talk to Travis (on the road, so to speak, at my school library during a break period) about Damien Chazelle’s Babylon. Even in a quick conversation, we found the movie to be a bottomless pit of style and talking points.

MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on "Manly Movies" Podcast talking "Casablanca"

Surfing among the fans and fellow creators of the Feelin’ Film podcast Facebook group, I’ve come to break internet bread with a gentleman by the name of J.B. Huffman. He’s a voracious movie fan who has a temperament for examining and celebrating all forms of masculinity. As a fellow father, those stories and archetypes grab him the most to the point where he decided to make a podcast series dedicated to the movies that hit us dads. Welcome to Manly Movies! Like all good men, he doesn’t do anything half-ass. I was honored to participate as J.B.’s guest to talk about Casablanca.

Media Appearance, Podcast, Social Media, SPECIAL, 2020Don ShanahanDecember 14, 2022AMC River East 21Podcast, Manly Movies, Casablanca, J.B. HuffmanComment

MEDIA APPEARANCE: Guest on the Kicking the Seat YouTube channel talking "Casablanca"

Both Ian Simmons of the Kicking the Seat podcast and YouTube channel and I have been lucky enough to be enjoying the fruits of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. The two of us are on the press list to receive advance copies of the studio’s new disc releases. That physical media parade will include new films and classic titles arriving on 4K for the first time. Ian called me in to celebrate the latter for, as fate would have it, my all-time favorite movie: CASABLANCA! Arriving for the first time on 4K, it was easy to gush about a movie I adore that much!

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