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{{short description|English film critic (born 1963)}} {{Use British English|date=April 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Mark Kermode | image = Film Critic Mark Kermode.jpg | alt = | caption = Kermode at the 2018 [[BFI London Film Festival]] | birth_name = Mark Fairey | birth_place = London, England | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|7|2|df=y}} | education = St Mary's CoE Primary School, Finchley,<ref name="planetradio.co.uk">https://planetradio.co.uk/scala-radio/presenters/mark-kermode/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> [[Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School]] | alma_mater = [[University of Manchester]] | occupation = {{hlist|Film critic|presenter|writer|musician}} | employer = [[BBC]]<br />''[[The Observer]]'' | television = ''[[The Film Review]]''<br />''[[The Culture Show]]'' <br /> ''[[Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema]]''<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Four β Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bbn5pt}}</ref> | spouse = {{marriage|[[Linda Ruth Williams]]|1991}}<ref>{{cite web |title=26 years ago today, and still seems like yesterday. @lindaruth1 x |url=https://twitter.com/KermodeMovie/status/943777007430750208 |website=Twitter |access-date=21 December 2017}}</ref> | children = 2 | website = }} '''Mark Kermode''' ({{IPAc-en|Λ|k|ΙΛr|Λ|m|oΚ|d}}, {{respell|KUR|moh|d}};<ref>{{cite web |title=The Film Review |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/b01rk5j5 |work=[[BBC iPlayer]] |access-date=1 November 2020}}</ref> {{ne|'''Fairey'''}};<ref>{{cite news |last=Norman |first=Matthew |title=Matthew Norman's Media Diary |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/matthew-normans-media-diary-488016.html |url-status=live |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=24 January 2005 |access-date=31 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223195927/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/matthew-normans-media-diary-488016.html |archive-date=23 February 2009}}</ref> born 2 July 1963)<ref>{{cite news |title=Birthdays |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=2 July 2009 |page=35}}</ref><ref name="honum09">{{cite web |url=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=5314 |title=Film critic honoured by University of Manchester |publisher=[[University of Manchester]] |date=14 December 2009 |access-date=19 December 2009}}</ref> is an English [[film criticism|film critic]], [[musician]], [[Radio personality|radio presenter]], [[television presenter]], author and [[podcaster]]. He is the co-presenter (with Ellen E. Jones) of the [[BBC Radio 4]] programme ''Screenshot'', and co-presenter (alongside long-time collaborator [[Simon Mayo]]) of the film-review podcast ''Kermode & Mayo's Take''. Kermode is a regular contributor to ''[[The Observer]]'', for which he was chief film critic between September 2013 and September 2023.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/aug/19/mark-kermode-observer-chief-film-critic-vacates-seat-after-10-year-stint |title=Mark Kermode: Observer chief film critic leaves role after 10-year stint |newspaper=The Observer |date=19 August 2023 |last=Thorpe |first=Vanessa}}</ref> Kermode is the author of several books on film and music, including ''It's Only A Movie'', ''The Good The Bad and The Multiplex'', ''Hatchet Job'' and ''How Does It Feel?''. He is the co-author of ''Hollywood: Sixty Great Years'' (with Jack Lodge, John Russell Taylor, Adrian Turner, Douglas Jarvis and David Castell),<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781853750748/Hollywood-60-Great-Years-Lodge-1853750743/plp | title=Hollywood: 60 Great Years - Lodge, Jack; Taylor, John Russell; Turner, Adrian; Jarvis, Douglas; Castell, David; Kermode, Mark: 9781853750748 - AbeBooks }}</ref> ''The Movie Doctors'' (with Simon Mayo),<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-movie-doctors/simon-mayo/mark-kermode/9781782116646 | title=The Movie Doctors by Simon Mayo, Mark Kermode | Waterstones }}</ref> and ''Mark Kermode's Surround Sound'' (with Jenny Nelson).<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uLwjEQAAQBAJ | title=Mark Kermode's Surround Sound: The Stories of Movie Music | isbn=978-1-4472-3057-1 | last1=Kermode | first1=Mark | publisher=Pan Macmillan }}</ref> He has also written three volumes for the BFI's Modern Classics series β on ''[[The Exorcist]]'', ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' and ''[[Silent Running]]''. Since the late 1980s he has contributed to the BFI's film magazine ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' and its predecessor ''[[The Monthly Film Bulletin]]'', and since January 2016 he has presented a monthly live show, ''MK3D'', at the [[British Film Institute]] (BFI), [[South Bank]]. It is the BFI's longest-running live show.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=markkermodelivein3djan2022&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id= |title=Buy cinema tickets for Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI}}</ref> Kermode previously co-presented the [[BBC Radio 5 Live]] show ''[[Kermode and Mayo's Film Review]]'', and previously co-presented the [[BBC Two]] arts programme ''[[The Culture Show]]''. Between 2018 and 2021, he co-wrote and presented three seasons of the [[BBC Four]] film documentary series ''[[Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema]]'', and between 2019 and 2024 he presented a weekly film music show on [[Scala Radio]]. He is a member of the [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] and a founding member of the [[skiffle]] band [[the Dodge Brothers]], for which he plays [[double bass]]. Since 2008, the Dodge Brothers (with [[Neil Brand]]) have provided live accompaniment for [[silent film]]s such as ''[[Beggars of Life]]'', ''[[Hell's Hinges]]'', ''[[White Oak (film)|White Oak]]'' and ''[[The Ghost That Never Returns]]''.
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