Black Doves – Season 2, Episode 6: Peace Summit (2026) – Review

The final episode of Black Doves season two arrives with the force of a carefully laid trap finally snapping shut. Peace Summit gathers every loose

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Black Doves – Season 2, Episode 5: Murder Mix (2026) – Review

Murder Mix arrives as a high point in a season already packed with tension, dark humour and the sort of complicated loyalties that make this

Black Doves – Season 2, Episode 4: The Opportunity To Become Savage (2026) – Review

Black Doves has always thrived on its sharp blend of dark humour, brutal violence and the tangled personal lives of people who sell secrets for

Black Doves – Season 2, Episode 3: P Is For Poison (2026) – Review

Black Doves has always thrived on the tension between the ordinary and the lethal and P Is For Poison delivers the formula with even greater

Black Doves – Season 2, Episode 2: Put Your Head On My Shoulder (2026) – Review

Put Your Head On My Shoulder ranks as one of the best episodes of the series so far, raising the stakes and cranking up the

Black Doves – Season 2, Episode 1: Black Door (2026) – Review

Black Doves returns with confidence after nearly two years away. Season two’s opening episode wastes little time reestablishing the world of private intelligence, quiet betrayals

Black Doves – Season 1, Episode 6: In The Bleak Midwinter (2024) – Review

The final episode of Black Doves first season brings the series to a close with a mixture of high tension, hard choices and quiet emotional

Black Doves – Season 1, Episode 5: The Cost Of It All (2024) – Review

The Cost Of It All tightens every thread the series has been spinning and forces its characters into corners from which escape looks increasingly difficult,

Black Doves – Season 1, Episode 4: Go Bang Time (2024) – Review

Four episodes into Black Doves and Go Bang Time shifts the series into a higher gear while still finding room for quieter moments that reveal

Black Doves – Season 1, Episode 3: The Coming Night (2024) – Review

The Coming Night continues the series with a careful blend of present day intrigue and revealing flashbacks that illuminate the fractured histories of its central

Black Doves – Season 1, Episode 2: A Little Black Dove (2024) – Review

The second episode of Black Doves builds on the confidence displayed in the first. A Little Black Dove balances origin story with present day intrigue,

Black Doves – Season 1, Episode 1: To Love Then (2024) – Review

The opening episode of Black Doves wastes little time getting going with a blend of festive London glamour and sudden, brutal violence. To Love Then

Black Doves: Season 2 – Official Trailer

The trailer has been releaed for the second season of Black Doves. Back with a bang, darling. As spy Helen navigates life as the prime

Paddington In Peru (2024) – Review

Sequels can be tough, but while many rough and ready characters find that pulling off their first follow up isn’t as easy as it looked,

Paddington 2 (2017) – Review

I think everyone can agree that the first Paddington movie was not only a fitting retelling of Michael Bond’s beloved children’s character, but was a

Paddington (2014) – Review

Tweeness is an underrated virtue. OK, sure, when that hand is overplayed in any film, let alone a family film, it can be overwhelming and

Layer Cake (2004) – Review

Once upon a time, long before irreverent Neil Gaiman adaptations, psychotic twelve year-old vigilantes and groovy X-Men movies set in the swinging sixties, Matthew Vaughn

No Time To Die (2021) – Review

One of the many tropes that feels familiar from many a Bond film is the moment a villian settles back in a large armchair whilst

Spectre (2015) – Review

Over his fifty-odd year movie career, old Jimmy Bond has faced many threats, Goldfinger, Jaws, a Madonna cameo… But the biggest threat he had in

Skyfall (2012) – Review

As we came up to Daniel Craig’s third outing sipping vodka martinis, beding willing women and essentially writing off virtually every vehicle and building he