Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Kermode has struck again – he’s torn a film to shreds so much that people are now considering seeing it. Flatley writes, ...

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 ...

While somewhat forgotten today, one massive glam band from the 1970s starred in an unlikely silver screen feature Mark ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark Kermode's attitude towards movies is often autobiographical. He admits to being a "sucker for any film involving Richard Nixon" because, in childhood, his dad pointed to the television set on ...