Today, the everyfilm quest took Mrs W and I to Cineworld in Solihull.
This wasn't quite as smooth as it sounds because she was driving from Nottingham and I was coming from Coventry after watching my team put up a creditable display against Birmingham City (it was 1-1).
Anyway, she got lost and the car park next to the Touchwood shopping centre in Solihull was full.
It was 3.15pm by the time we found another and John Carter, our original movie of choice, was about to start.
However, I have long learned that everyfilm plans always need a back-up and so we plumped for John Cusack playing Edgar Allan Poe in The Raven instead.
Interestingly, after noting from my tweet that I was in their cinema, I have received a message from Cineworld_sol that James McTeigue's movie has not been very popular.
Shame, that because there are a heck of a lot of worse films around.
The movie surrounds the last days of Poe, the famous American poet who died in Baltimore on October 3, 1849 after being found wandering the streets in a state of delirium.
Doctors never did establish what killed him.
Thus, scriptwriters Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare (how apt) have created a fictionalised account of what led him there.
It surrounds a serial killer who kidnaps his girlfriend and then leaves murderous clues as to her whereabouts.
Cusack is a spirited combination of feckless yet deep thinking as the heavy-drinking poet who gives little respect to the establishment.
This is a bit of a problem because he is in love with the daughter (Alice Eve) of an important Baltimore businessman (Brendan Gleeson ).
He also has to rely on the help of a police inspector (Luke Evans) in his chase for his beloved.
The Raven is high on 19th century atmosphere and its quality cast adds verve to thoughtful writing.
But despite being an enjoyable romp it falls short of the thrills seen in The Woman In Black and is well short of the fun of Sherlock Holmes.
Nevertheless there are a fair few jumps and it is clever enough to keep the attention.
Gleeson rarely picks a bad movie (I've just about forgiven him for The Tiger's Tail) and Cusack has to be one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood. Their relationship crackles.
Jumps: five moderate ones.
Laughs: none
Vomit: one scene, but just out of shot.
Nudity: none, although Alice Eve's heaving cleavage seemed to defy gravity.
Overall rating: 7.5/10