Mark Kermode

Mark is the UK's funniest, best loved and most trusted film critic. He is Co-host of the podcast Kermode & Mayo's Take, and host of BBC Radio 4's film

series Screenshot alongside Ellen E Jones.

Hailed by Stephen Fry as 'the finest film critic in Britain’, he is the author of several books about film, including Hatchet Job and It's Only A Movie, How Does It Feel?, The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex, and BFI Classics on The Exorcist, The Shawshank Redemption and Silent Running.

He has written and presented film and music shows on Channel 4, BBC 2 and BBC 4, and on BBC Radio stations 1, 2. 3, 4, 5Live and more.

He holds two Sony Awards for his radio programmes. His band The Dodge Brothers' album The Sun Set was voted Blues Album of the Year 2013.

His monthly stage show Mark Kermode Live in 3D at the BFI Southbank is in its ninth year and has consistently full houses.