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Mark Kermode (/ ˈ k ɜːr ˌ m oʊ d /, KUR-moh-d; [4] né Fairey; [5] born 2 July 1963) [6] [7] is an English film critic, musician, 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 ...
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Kermode and Mayo's Film Review was a radio programme with Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live on Friday afternoons. The show was self-described as the BBC's "flagship film programme" and featured film reviews from Kermode, interviews with actors and other guests, and listeners' emails.
The Film Review (formerly Film 24) is a ten-minute film-related programme that was usually shown on BBC News each Friday evening at 5:45 pm. It reviewed three new films each week and was repeated several times during weekends. Jane Hill served as the main host, having taken over the position when Gavin Esler left as a BBC News channel presenter.
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[5] In The Observer, a newspaper Kermode also writes for, Euan Ferguson wrote in his review that, "I try to make it a rule never to be too nice to colleagues, let alone quote two in one piece, but I have to say Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema was an endlessly refreshing delight. [...] This was a splendid hour, could have run for three: you not ...
Mark Kermode, reviewing for The Guardian, gave the film five stars calling it "a richly authentic portrait of Cornwall" and saying Woodvine's performance was "quietly mesmerising". [12] Adam Scovell, writing for BBC Culture , said that the film was "a perfect, anti-romantic expression of Cornish eeriness".