In the last decade I noticed a shift in culture of watching movies. It was probably fueled by advances in internet bandwidth and video streaming, or maybe a change of our lifestyles in general or maybe even something about business side of making video content. Regardless of the reason, I’ve noticed that my habits of watching video shifted from a mindful selection of content toward a mediocre stream of whatever the algorithm suggests.

Trying to be mindful of my time and hygiene of my mind, I want to start a movie of the week:

  • a weekly1 movie recommendation,
  • posted onto this website,
  • having a stamp of approval by me (and my wife).

I want the list to include different genres, old and new, short and long. Anything that I found insightful or appreciated its filming technique.

I’ll be re-watching each of the recommendations myself and I want to ask you, dear reader, to send me your recommendations to be included in the list.

This list tries to avoid films that are wildly regarded as of high quality, since you can find those at IMDb top movies list.

2024-11-10: Mare of Easttown

Again, a series, but a good one. Feels like reading a detective novel.

Middle-aged woman with a detective badge.

2024-11-10: The Mule

An american grampa, smuggling drugs.

An american truck driving trough a dry landscape.

2024-11-03: Scavengers Reign

A few surviors, stranded on a foreign planet with a strange ecology.

Series.

A person sitting and reading a book surrounded by strange wildlife.

2024-10-06: Sound of Freedom

Freedom is not an abundent resource in many parts of the world.

A profile of a man, overlayed with a silhouette of a girl at a window.

2024-08-18: Scent of a Woman

Blind arsehole takes a trip to New York with a new young guide.

Two men in suits, the old one with a cane and the young one guiding him.

2024-08-11: The Grand Budapest Hotel

Misterious tale of how this grand hotel got into the hands of this victorian noble man.

Pink victorian-looking hotel in alpine landscape

2024-08-04: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

A new twist to spiderman series presented as a comic book in motion.

Black spiderman in shorts and untied sneakers ascending down into a sea of skyscrapers.

2024-07-28: Poor Things

Surreal medical experiment pushes a young women onto a long journey to discover herself.

A pale woman with long black hair, with a marble river flowing out of her heart.

2024-07-07: Emily the Criminal

When career of an artist does not pan out, she finds other ways to make money.

A woman in her 20s, in a tank top with a purse

2024-06-25: Office space

An office job that feels like hell and an idea of how to make it better.

A man covered with yellow paper notes

2024-06-16: 12 Angry Men

After a trial is concluded, 12 men of the jury have to decide if a kid is guilty of murdering his father.

A knife, 11 jurors shouting and one juror opposing, firmly

2024-06-09: 1917

A close look into the trenches of World War 1 on the western front. Note that there is no camera cuts in the film.

Two WW1 soldiers running toward sunset overlayed with a black cover that has 1917 cut out

2024-06-02: A Man Called Ove

An old swedish grumpy man has had a rough life and has trouble finding a reason to keep living.

Grumpy man with bouquet of flowers, photos. There is a cat and a length of rope at his foot and a Saab car in background.

2024-05-26: The Big Lebowski

A story about a dude from Los Angeles, about his bowling and his beverages and the agression that he has to stand down.

Bowling ball, bowling pins, the dude, this two friends and a few others arranged like this is a tense action movie

2024-05-19: Starship Troopers

Looks like the old Star Wars, starts like a high school drama and shows what space fascism would look like.

Soldiers in space armor in action, with explosions in the background

2024-05-12: Dallas Buyers Club

Cowboy AIDS on steroids

Cowboy looking dude in front of an american car with a city in the distance

  1. Even though the name of this list implies a weekly cadence, I don’t want to commit to a strict schedule. The plan is to post on Sundays, but that more of a wish than a promise. ↩︎