Netflix recently announced the prizewinners in its million-dollar contest to find a better movie recommendation app for its site. The criterion for the prize was very specific: winners had to demonstrate they could be at least 10% more accurate than the current system. Depending upon your view of geeks’ choices in movies, this is either genius or a joke. Ten per cent of what? If I choose a Greek film from Netflix, it shows me every other Greek film. It has no idea that I may have chosen the film because I may be interested in ancient Greek ships.

At Movie With Me we use another method: curiosity. We let our interests roam over over lists of movies and settle on what we like for a whim, a mood, a snippet of plot or an odd title. We almost never go for stars or popularity. I don’t think the audience does either. Who is the biggest star in America today? Anna Faris. Who is she? The voice of Sam in “Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.” Before that she was in “Scary Movie” but no one remembers.

We go for themes known only to our own minds: they can lead us anywhere and everywhere. If we restricted our curiosity to patterns that could be predicted by ten percent chances of a match, we’d never discover, we’d never adventure, and we’d never fall in love.

So we hope you enjoy films on Netflix (and Amazon) but we urge you to follow your own curiosity down the labyrinth of your own making and see any movie that moves you, for reasons you never need to explain. We’re in the seat right behind you.