City of Cultural Murder

The Mortal Instruments - City of Bones is good for a laugh, and ranks somewhere between the cringe-worthy Twilight series and the downright horrific Percy Jackson series. It is quite entertaining, with the term mundane quite clearly applicable to the movie as a whole rather than merely humans. There is also the ubiquitous love triangle that makes all such movies so alluring. Stupid stuff

10/20

Freeze this

Let me tell you about a movie, newly released, called Frozen, wherein three young adults get stuck in a ski lift in the bitter cold. A series of improbable circumstances mean that their predicament is not known, and they are likely to be frozen stiff over the next week or so. After much conjecture the truth hits them that they are not about to be rescued. Braving the height (of the ski lift from the ground) and looking for rescue, the most intrepid of the trio jumps – and breaks both his legs. He meets a gruesome fate (thanks to the natural predators that abound ski slopes), and is not the only one to end thus. In the end, the only survivor is rescued, and will possibly never end up on a ski slope again. Nor me, with this movie. And yes, I do get the message about being duty-bound to be scared of ski lifts and black swan events on my next ski trip

9/20