Suddenly, it all fits.
Katie McDermott, who works for Showcase Cinemas' PR team, has taken great pleasure in giving me tickets to films which she knows will make me squirm.
Firstly, there was the Wiggles Greatest Hits and now there is Catwalk, a movie about fashion - a subject which could not be further from my comfort zone.
But now I know why Katie is tormenting me - out of incredible coincidence I have discovered she used to be captain of my old school.
She was there more than 20 years after me but she clearly has the same sadistic side as those school captains of the 1970s.
My pay off line was going to be that watching Catwalk 3D was like suffering one of the various corporal punishments in those days but the truth is that it wasn't.
It was just like sitting in the best seat cinema has to offer (there is nowhere more luxurious than the director's lounge at Derby Cinema De Luxe) watching pretty girls for just over an hour.
In fact, this was little more than an episode of Fashion TV.
We were treated to several catwalk runs from the Paris Fashion Show where Haute Couture was the in thing.
My initial interest was peaked by an introduction which suggested we would go behind the scenes and learn more about how a collection was put together.
Having enjoyed the September Collection in which the Vogue editor Anna Wintour seemed to end careers with a glare I would have been keen to see the fashion industry from another angle.
But we heard very little from the designers and instead just saw a parade of sullen, skinny (but very attractive) lasses walk purposefully along runways.
Some were dressed very elegantly, others, to coin a Russell Harty phrase, looked to my uneducated eye like they were trussed up "like a chip shop.''
But this ''movie'' was little more than a homage to the likes of Jean Paul Gautier and the house of Valentino.
Fashionistas may have enjoyed it (but there were very few at our showing) but it certainly did not open the door to those of us who wanted to learn more.
Also, the 3D was utterly pointless (how often do I say that!).
Thus, as a film it just didn't work and can only received 4/10.
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