I'm not sure if he'll remember me now, but I knew Mark Kermode when I was at university in Southampton between 1993 and 1996 (initially through his wife Linda, who at that time was head of the English department). I made a documentary about film censorship and interviewed him and many other people. I wound up cutting him out of the final edit (he said a lot about The Exorcist, but that wasn't really the thrust of the documentary, and I had to keep the running time down to a certain length), so whenever I saw him out and about (normally at the lovely Harbour Lights cinema), he'd point to me and say (good-naturedly): "I can't believe you cut me out of your documentary!" It became a kind of running joke.

By the way, I'm also a big fan of his film criticism and his radio work with Simon Mayo (that Sex and the City 2 review is a masterpiece of a rant), though my all-time favourite film critic is still the late, great Barry Norman. :)