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==Other writing== In February 2010, [[Random House]] released his [[autobiography]], ''It's Only a Movie'', which he describes as being "inspired by real events".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/76846-kermode-to-random-house.html |title=Kermode to Random House |last=Gallagher |first=Victoria |date=10 February 2009 |work=The Bookseller |access-date=11 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101026123331/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/76846-kermode-to-random-house.html |archive-date=26 October 2010}}</ref> Its publication was accompanied by a UK tour.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.onlyamovie.co.uk/ |title=It's Only a Movie |publisher=Random House |access-date=21 July 2010}}</ref> In September 2011, he released a follow-up book entitled ''The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex'', in which he expresses his opinions on the good and bad of modern films, and vehemently criticizes the modern [[Multiplex (movie theater)|multiplex]] experience and the [[3D film]] craze that had grown in the years immediately preceding the book's publication.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kermode |first=Mark |title=How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/aug/28/mark-kermode-multiplex-blockbuster |access-date=28 December 2011 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=28 August 2011 |location=London}}</ref> In 2013, [[Picador (imprint)|Picador]] published ''Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics'' in which he examines whether professional "traditional" film critics still have a role in a culture of ever increasing numbers of online bloggers and amateur critics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.picador.com/markkermode |title=Picador β Mark Kermode |publisher=Picador |access-date=16 June 2014}}</ref> In 2017, he collaborated with his idol [[William Friedkin]] on the feature documentary ''[[The Devil and Father Amorth]]'', as a writer. The film had its first showing at the [[Venice Film Festival]] on 31 August 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/williamfriedkin/status/890611025518534656 |title=William Friedkin on Twitter |website=[[Twitter]] |access-date=30 October 2019}}</ref>
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