Best In Show (Amazon Prime, 12) Verdict: Barking parody Rating: A Mighty Wind (Amazon Prime, 12) Verdict: A hurricane of silliness Rating: Waiting For Guffman (Amazon Prime, 12) Verdict: Small-town spoof Rating: Over in that parallel universe without Covid-19, the 73rd Cannes Film Festival would be drawing to a close this weekend and I would … Read more
The 2020 Eurovision champion is… ABBA! Waterloo crowned the greatest ever song as TV viewers vote during ‘Come Together’ lockdown special ABBA’s breakthrough hit Waterloo voted as the greatest ever Eurovision song Viewers chose it over 18 other entries featured in Eurovision: Come Together There were four UK entries on the shortlist including Bucks Fizz’s Making … Read more
House Of Glass Hadley Freeman Fourth Estate £16.99 Rating: The dedication at the front of this remarkable book is short and sweet. ‘For my father, Ron Freeman,’ it reads, ‘and my Grandma Sala.’ But like so much else in House Of Glass, those simple words contain a universe. Twelve years after her grandmother’s death in … Read more
MEMOIR WE SWIM TO THE SHARK by Georgie Codd (Fleet £14.99, 336pp) I happen to be married to an ichthyophobe, so I’m familiar with the condition. Unable to bear even the sight of a goldfish, my husband avoids looking into ponds. His summer-lunch nemesis would be a whole garnished poached salmon with its head still … Read more
Height club: Incredible pictures show the mighty Mount Thor, which features the world’s greatest vertical drop – of 4,100ft (that’s three Empire State Buildings end to end) Mount Thor stands like a colossus in the snowy wilderness of the Auyuittuq National Park in Canada Its west face has a 4,101ft sheer drop, with an overhanging … Read more
German historian Volker Ullrich, gives a new account of Hitler’s life in a gripping sequel to his mammoth biography of the Fuhrer.