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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, this time without the genius Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End), are nerds who, while traveling through the American areas known for alien-related events, actually meet an escaped alien and decide to help him return home.

"Paul" is both an homage and a parody of Spielberg's SF classics, done as a road trip comedy in the recognizable Pegg-Frost style, and they are additionally enhanced by Seth Rogen in the role of an alien. Even Spielberg himself supported the cause with a small cameo.

Nothing about this movie is spectacular or a masterpiece. Still, it's extremely charming, witty, funny, fast-paced, full of alien pop culture references, and keeps your attention and smile on your face from start to finish. All the actors nailed their roles, and as the icing on the cake, at the end, there's the appearance of... oh, I don't want to spoil the surprise, but it's an awesome detail.

If you liked anything by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg, if you're nostalgic about "E. T." or "Close Encounter of the Third Kind" or if you like road trip comedies in the style of "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" and "Dogma" by Kevin Smith, don't miss to watch "Paul".

8/10.

Lassie is a collie, the pet of a poor family, forced to sell her. But the dog persistently returns home, no matter how far the new owner took her.

Objectively and impartially, I think this movie deserves about seven. But! This is probably the most famous film about the relationship between a child and an animal, and it has stood the test of time for more than eighty years. This is the film debut of Elizabeth Taylor, who got the role quite by accident, and if it wasn't for this film, the question is whether her career would have been there. The dog played the role phenomenally and was paid twice as much as Taylor. Immediately after the film, the number of Collies in America increased fivefold, and the name Lassie became synonymous with the breed and is used as often as the real name. The film was so successful that it spawned six sequels. Unlike most movies about animals, they are not given human qualities here - Lassie is a dog and only a dog, which makes her love and loyalty even greater. And to top it all, although I resisted almost to the end, I couldn't hold back the tears, and I'm not a dog lover, not to use a harsher term. My wife, who is, cried over it from the beginning, and it held the attention of my three-year-old daughter, who usually gets tired after ten minutes of watching any movie, for more than an hour. Because of everything listed, and I could probably come up with a few more, I am rating it

10/10.

After a criminal desecrates an Indian burial ground, he unwittingly brings a vengeful tribe to a quiet Wild West town. Indians kidnap several townspeople, and the sheriff (Kurt Russell), his deputy (Richard Jenkins), a local gunslinger (Matthew Fox), and the husband (Patrick Wilson) of one of the kidnapped (Lily Simmons) embark on a rescue mission, unaware of what they will have to face.

For the most part, the film shies away from originality and has all the characteristics of classic Westerns. It has a long duration and a slow pace, and is more concerned with the characterization and the building of the atmosphere than with specific events. It is only near the end that a rather original implementation of slasher horror elements occurs, but despite the extreme brutality, the film remains faithful to the Western genre. Although low-budget, the film is visually very well done, and has a strong cast and good dialogues. It is not a masterpiece neither as Western nor as horror, but for fans of any of these genres, I sincerely recommend it. It's worth a look, if only as a curiosity.

7,5/10.