Airport VIP lounges are great.
Ok, I know I sound incredibly pompous but I have got to the age where I don't want to be trudging around trying to find a seat among crying kids.
Thus, Mrs W has come up trumps with membership of a scheme which means I can be guaranteed a comfy chair, near a plug socket and, thus, have the ability to take in a movie while we wait for our plane to be ready for departure.
Las Palmas airport was, therefore, the venue for the latest in my movies for the Japan Foundation's touring film programme.
This time it is the 2005 acclaimed comedy drama A Stranger Of Mine, which is being given another lease of life in the UK over the next month.
Coincidentally, at the same time as Miss W is studying the rashomon effect, here it is used by director and writer Kenji Uchida.
Essentially, it is a story of one evening in the life of a straight-laced businessman Takeshi Miyata (Yasuhi Nakamura) and four people who touch his life.
These include a young woman who is homeless after splitting up from her fiance, Miyata's former girlfriend, his best friend and the local Mafia leader.
All of their stories weave together, farcically, yet dangerously.
I don't know whether my mood was tainted because it was the end of our holiday but this wasn't a movie which really engaged me.
True enough, I chortled a couple of times at the ridiculousness of the situation but the characters are all a bit too pantomime for my taste.
The rashomon technique (playing the same scene over from different perspectives) does add a depth to the movie because it shows up what happens in the background of the original shot.
But while that might satisfy most film buffs, I need an exciting, funny or, at least enlightening plot to keep me happy and I just felt A Stranger Of Mine was a bit thin.
Laughs: a couple of giggles
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 5.5/10