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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anyone with even a passing interest in the film critic would know that William Friedkin’s 1972 horror film The Exorcist is his all ...

Mark Kermode has carved a reputation as a well-known critic. So it will come as a surprise to fans of his lofty movie takedowns he has thrown his backing behind an increasingly controversial subject ...

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 ...

"Everybody needs a friend like that," Knightley said of Cumberbatch Don’t mess with Smaug/Sherlock/Khan’s buddies. Speaking to ELLE, Keira Knightley mentioned that Benedict Cumberbatch once defended ...

In the September installment of our audio IRL, contributing writer Christine Fisher praises "one of New York's last (only?) great punk bands," and contributing writer Kris Holt tells us why a BBC film ...

A monthly column for the Observer by critic and broadcaster Mark Kermode In the first of a new monthly Observer column on his favourite film-makers, Mark Kermode salutes the elliptical vision of the ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Have you seen we’re on a bus now?” says Simon Mayo to co-presenter Mark Kermode in the opening episode of Kermode and ...

“Straight out of central casting”: When Chris Kermode was hired to lead the ATP Tour in 2014, that’s the phrase that came to mind. English, well-dressed, with a full head of gray hair and a blend of ...