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Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen are one of the film industry's most prominent directing duos. Behind them stands everything from their strong, Cannes winning debut Fargo to the Oscar winning No Country For Old Men. But perhaps the biggest favorite among fans are the less gruesome The Big Lebowski, which we have chosen as the classic of the week.

Jeff Bridges does his most iconic performance as Jeffrey Lebowski, or The Dude as his friends call him. When he is mistaken for a millionaire with the same name he gets pulled in to a world of gangsters, kidnappings and cut off toes - something pretty far from his usual days of white russians and bowling.

With a strong cast (featuring John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi and Philip Seymour Hoffman), a wicked sense of humor and a couple of unforgettable scenes, this Coen brothers film becomes a spectacular experience. A cult classic of the highest range.

We're back with Classic of the week – our new segment where we dig out a film from our archive. Last week it was the science fiction epic Blade Runner and now we have dug out the unforgettable One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Here, Jack Nicholson does one of his greatest performances as Randle P. McMurphy – a convict institutionalized at a mental hospital. There he turns the institution upside down when he doesn’t get along with the strict system supervised by nurse Ratched.

This was the international breakout film of Milos Forman, who later did movies as Hair, Amadeus and Man on the Moon. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest became a huge success and an instant classic. And one of only three films to receive ”the Big Five” at the Oscars; Best film, director, screenplay, male lead and female lead.

So return the cuckoo's nest today and watch this unforgettable American classic today!

”Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.” This is the text of the real ad that the new movie Safety Not Guaranteed is based in. Here we get to follow a newspaper journalist and two interns who seeks out to find the man who wrote the ad and hopefully get a good story out of it. But their journey develops into something that none of them expected.

The film is directed by Colin Trevorrow, who here makes his debut. But he has already climbed up in the Hollywood ladder. He's now attached to direct the new Jurassic Park movie – which is quite a big step for an independent filmmaker. But it's easy to see why he has become so successful. With Safety Not Guaranteed he mixes both drama and comedy in an excellent way and shows a big heart for his characters.

And even though this isn't your traditional sci-fi-film, the time travel element is constantly there – and in honor of that we have collected some of our favorites in the time travel genre. From classics as Back to the Future to modern hits such as Looper. Check out all of our selected time travel films here, and be sure to check out Safety Not Guaranteed.

Today we're introducing a thing we have chosen to call ”Classic of the week” in which we simply dig out one of our many fine titles from the archives to see the light of day. Cause it's easy to get lost in all of the new releases and missing out on all the magical movies that fills our assortment. There's a constant flow of old classics in the system and it would be a shame not to shed some light on them. One of the older titles that has rolled in the last couple of weeks is Ridley Scotts masterful science fiction classic Blade Runner, which is this weeks ”Classic of the week”.

Here Harrison Ford plays a specialized detective in a dystopian future hunting replicants, a sort of cyborgs, that have escaped from their colony. With amazing set pieces and wonderful music, Ridley Scott created a film that many to this day sees as one of the best of the genre. So experience the classical sci-fi-noir again, or check it out for the first time, and keep an eye out for future classics in this segment.