Martha Marcy May Marlene - 2011 **

I had been wanting to watch this movie for ages. I love things about cults added to which it had been nominated for various awards. What could possibly go wrong? Well, pretty much the whole movie that's what. Elizabeth Olsen isn't a good actress, (following in suit with her two sisters I assume) and so having to focus on her for the entire movie as she painstakingly dragged herself through each scene was rather like watching paint dry. I suppose she did portray a post-cult member rather well, doing inappropriate things like swimming naked, wetting herself after having nightmares and walking into her sister's room in the middle of the night when her sister is having sex with her husband.
Not a brilliant movie, with a totally ambiguous ending which ruined it even more.

(HORROR) Rosewood Lane - 2011 **

This was a dreadful horror film. Having just recently seen 'Sinister' at the cinema I had come to terms with the fact that I could still be scared by a movie and so was expecting something along those lines with this. But it was dire, and Rose McGowan's lips looked as though they were going to overpower her whole head. Her acting was awful (not a patch on 'Planet Terror') but not as bad as the actor playing the paperboy who seemed to have graduated from the school of wooden and monotonous performing. He also has these very weird black eyes with no iris in the centre which seem to creep out the rest of the characters no end which is rather amusing.
Waste of time. 2 thumbs down, way way down.