Movie Rating 7.5 out of 10 Family Rating. Has some mild swearing and tense scenes but certainly suitable for a PG 13 rating. I have some big movie release reviews to share with you this week in BlacKkKlansman and The Meg but tonight I watched a hidden gem on Netflix called "I Kill Giants". I knew nothing about it but there was a buzz going around this movie and as I had a quiet night I took the time to watch it. Firstly, without giving too much away, there are Giants in the movie but it is not a story of the Buffy genre with lots of gore and body parts rolling around. It is, however, a wonderful movie that I encourage all mums with young/teenage daughters to sit down and watch together. It centres on a nerdy loner teenage girl named Barbara who is struggling with tragedy in her life. She attributes this to Giants who are out to destroy her life and she spends most of her time preparing to fight them off. Along the way a new English girl arrives, Sophia, and an awkward friendship arises that has to develop around Barbara's mission to protect her local town from the Giant. When the school psychologist, Mrs Molle, becomes involved and seeks to understand Barbara, then her life starts to unravel as she questions her worthiness and ability to 'kill the Giant'. As the atmosphere builds you are faced with the question as to whether the Giant exists or not and regardless, how will Barbara meet her current challenges. Madison Wolfe plays Barbara and does an excellent job for such a young actress. Imogen Poots plays her sister Karen and Sydney Wade puts in a good performance as her new friend Sophia. Zoe Saldana plays the caring Mrs Molle, in the first non-science fiction role that I have seen her in. For you older folk the movie is co-produced by Chris Columbus whose movies has the theme of children proving themselves such as The Goonies, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone and Home Alone. If I was to give you a sense of how the movie 'feels' without giving away any spoilers it has the emotion of a 'Big Hero 6' and I loved the ending. Anyway, that is how I felt but I would love to hear your opinion once you have watched it. Take the time one wet weekend, when the rain returns, to sit down and enjoy this movie.

Movie Rating 8 out of 10 Family Rating: Lots of excitement, a couple of swear words, fight scenes Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to leave all logic at the door and enjoy the thrills and spills you have come to expect from an MI movie. Tom Cruise is back in his role as Ethan Hunt and takes up where he left off at the end of the last Mission Impossible episode. Cruise must have sold his soul to the devil because he doesn't look much older than he did in Risky Business, is as fit as a bull and apparently does a lot of his own stunts. Being four months older than this 'Peter Pan' I can tell you he is not the standard for us baby boomers. Supporting Tom in this follow up to MI Rogue Nation are his old friends, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames and Rebecca Ferguson and his arch enemy Sean Harris as Solomon Lane. Still trying to save the world from anarchists, Hunt is set the task of recovering the three plutonium cores that he lost in the last film. At the same time, he has to kidnap Lane from police control to use as bargaining power. There is also the usual infighting between IMF and the CIA about who is in charge and who can be trusted. As is expected there was plenty of action with amazing car and bike chases through the streets of Paris, running over the rooftops of London and a helicopter duel in the river valleys of India. There are twists and turns and you never know until the end who are the goodies and who are the baddies and I am not giving away any spoilers. Henry Cavill plays a CIA agent forced upon the IMF team, and I believe that if he had the courage to drop the Superman role that he could become a decent actor. The other notable newcomer is Vanessa Kirby who plays the White Widow and adds the 'Bond Girl' glamour. If you enjoy going to the movies to be entertained and you can accept that people can come off motorbikes at breakneck speeds and get up without a scratch or a bruise, that you can run and jump from building to building without sweating and then survive a helicopter crash with very little damage then you will really enjoy this show. At well over two hours long make sure you have plenty of snacks and make sure you visit the toilet before the entertainment starts as there are not many slow spots during the movie.