Frank Kermode taught me how to read Shakespeare, so when I heard the sad news that he had died, I Frank Kermode taught me how to read Shakespeare, so when I heard the sad news that he had died, I went ...

Sir Frank Kermode, until this week, was numbered among the most influential of them. His death, at the age of 90, deprives us of a critic who was himself a pleasure to read, despite calling one of his ...

Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode‘s Radio 5 Live show has officially come to an end. After 21 years, Kermode and Mayo have aired the final run of their beloved film review show in its current form. All is ...

When Skye Kermode plays the crystal sound bowls at the old Angel’s Grotto in Smith’s, two green turtles often pop their heads ...

Within minutes of their final show on BBC Five Live, Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode have announced a new movie review show called Kermode & Mayo's Take. The broadcasting duo ended their popular film ...

Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode‘s Radio 5 Live is coming to an end today (1 April). After 21 years, the duo will air the final run of Kermode and Mayo’s beloved film review show in its current form. All ...

Roll up, roll up – it’s here: not a new Exorcist film, but Mark Kermode’s takedown of a new Exorcist movie. Anyone with even a passing interest in the film critic would know that William Friedkin’s ...

Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode's final programme together on 5 Live will air on Friday 1 April Film critic Mark Kermode and radio presenter Simon Mayo are to leave their long-running Friday film review ...

“Forrest Gump on a tractor.” With those words, writes British film Mark Kermode in an article in The Observer, a colleague poisoned any chance he might have had of enjoying David Lynch’s The Straight ...

Mark Kermode's latest book Hatchet Job: Love Movies, Hate Critics brilliantly puts the shifting sands of contemporary film criticism under the microscope. In an age when emerging digital platforms ...