Tarantino's Movie Picks on Netflix

No. It doesn't exist, but it's certainly something I'd like to see.  Not just Tarantino, of course, but other directors, critics. del Toro, Ebert, the Cohens, The Good Doctor Kermode etc.

This idea starts, with my wife.  On a spare evening with nothing on TV, not even a Come Dine With Me. we turned to Netflix.  We don't watch that many films together, having quite different taste, which, sadly, are pretty much gender stereotypical.

I was agonising over which film to watch in much the same way as I used as a customer to in a video rental shop.  Scanning all the titles on all the files. Picking some boxes, comparing, returning some, picking others. For ages. It was pretty annoying for my wife, who eventually said, "Oh, just pick one, if it's rubbish, we'll just watch something else". So we watched Bottle Shock. It was both a perfectly acceptable film, and one that I wouldn't have picked from a shelf.

The same thing happened last weekend. We watched Salmon Fishing in the Yemen on the basis that "It's got Euan McGregor in it. Again, it was perfectly acceptable entertainment for a lazy Sunday evening and there was no pressure to invest much time in it if it didn't look watchable.

If I'm not choosing a movie like a customer, maybe this new just play it and see method is more like choosing a movie like a video store clerk. Probably the most famous example is Tarantino, so it seems like a few recommendations from him would be pretty cool.