Editing Mark Kermode (section)

==Personal life==
Kermode is married to [[Linda Ruth Williams]], a professor who lectures on film at the [[University of Exeter]]. From October to November 2004, they jointly curated a ''History of the Horror Film'' season and exhibition at the [[National Film Theatre]] in London.<ref name=Williams>{{cite web|url=http://www.southampton.ac.uk/film/profiles/williams.html|title=Professor Linda Ruth Williams|publisher=University of Southampton|access-date=8 March 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080403125551/http://www.southampton.ac.uk/film/profiles/williams.html|archive-date=3 April 2008}}</ref> Kermode and Williams have two children.<ref name=Lawson/>

Kermode has been described as "a [[feminist]], a [[pescatarianism|near vegetarian]] (he eats fish), a churchgoer and a straight-arrow spouse who just happens to enjoy seeing people's heads explode across a cinema screen".<ref name="Randall">{{Cite news|url=https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/books/interview-mark-kermode-film-critic-2461582|title=Interview: Mark Kermode, film critic|first= Lee| last= Randall| work=The Scotsman Magazine|date=7 February 2010|access-date=21 July 2010}}</ref>

In the mid-1980s, Kermode was an "affiliate" of the [[Revolutionary Communist Group (UK)|Revolutionary Communist Group]] (RCG) and was involved in the [[Viraj Mendis]] Defence Campaign, against the deportation of one of the group's members to [[Sri Lanka]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Kermode & Mayo|title=Mark Kermode – The Baader Meinhof Complex|website=[[YouTube]]|date=27 March 2011 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YzOQHG_1P4 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/8YzOQHG_1P4| archive-date=12 December 2021 |url-status=live|access-date=8 May 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> This developed into a high-profile national campaign involving people from left-wing groups such as the RCG, local residents of [[Manchester]] and extending to church leaders and Labour Party [[Members of Parliament]].<ref>{{cite AV media|last=Viraj Mendis Defence Campaign|title=Viraj Mendis Will Stay!|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mxTPnEdEsg |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/_mxTPnEdEsg| archive-date=12 December 2021 |url-status=live |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=17 April 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Kermode describes himself in this period as "a red-flag waving [[Bolshevik#Derogatory usage of .22Bolshevik.22|bolshie]] bore with a subscription to ''[[Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!|Fight Racism Fight Imperialism]]'' and no sense of humour."<ref name=Randall/>