Mark Kermode Research

Mark Kermode is an English film critic, musician and a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
He contributes to Sight and Sound magazine, The Observer newspaper and BBC Radio 5 Live, where he presents Kermode and Mayo's Film Reviews with Simon Mayo on Friday afternoons. He also co-presents the BBC Two arts programme The Culture Show and discusses other branches of the arts for the BBC Two programme Newsnight Review. Kermode writes and presents a film-related video blog for the BBC.


Mark Kermode has a very liberttarian view when it comes down to filem censorship. The libertarian view is that people should be able to view whatever they like. Here is a quote from when Kermode was talking about the topic " We've allowed the censors to view us all as children and we've handed over the reigns of responsibility for our viewing habits because we are not willing to accept that responsibility ourselves".


Mark Kermode is continously in debate Aminatta Forna who is the complete opposite to Kermode and has a moralist view when it comes to censorship. The moralist view is that people shouldn't be able to view what ever they want because they believe that its wrong and some footage can have a bad effect on society e.g copycat theory.