Biographical drama based on the book Seven Deadly Sins about the rise and fall of Lance Armstrong through his use of performance enhancing drugs and the crusade of journalist David Walsh to bring the cover up to light.

Kudos to Ben Foster who actually took performance enhancing drugs while filming the movie to fully get into character and he does look uncannily like Armstrong but the film seems to skim along through the story rather than really go into any depth over how and why most of the events took place. He meets his wife and gets married in a thirty second segment and she’s never seen again so it’s only really Armstrong and Floyd Landis who are given any real character development. Even Chris O’Dowd as David Walsh feels like a secondary character rather than one of the central pivots of the whole tale being told. This leads to the movie making it look like Armstrong turns up, gets beaten, takes drugs and effortlessly wins when in fact there were a number of years between his arrival in Europe and his Tour wins and while he did win seven Tours it was still a three week slog each time.

If you are interested in cycling and can remember the events depicted in the movie then this film will be of interest to you but if you’re not a fan of cycling if may fall short.

DJ Speaks Rating: 5 out of 10

Jesse Eisenberg stars as a convenience store worker in a tiny West Virginia town who spends his days stoned and trying his best to do right by his girlfriend while creating ideas for a graphic novel all through which, in generally, he fails miserably. What he doesn’t know is that he is a man with a past and when his ex-boss, who finds out that he has been marked for termination, unknowingly pays him a visit and unlocks repressed memories via a secret codeword it all kicks off in spectacular style.

Part Jason Bourne, part Cheech & Chong, American Ultra motors along with an ever increasing body count totalled up using a variety of unusual everyday items but it all still feels predictable and there’s nothing new here that will stay with you after the end credits roll.

Both Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart do okay with their roles but, when it comes, the secondary twist is so left of center that it doesn’t really make any sense and given that the whole film is told in a flashback means that any suspense or intrigue as to what the outcome of our protagonist will be is put to bed in the opening minute.

DJ Speaks Rating: 5 out of 10

With the plethora of super hero movies coming this year I thought I’d do a bit of catching up with this decent reboot of the Spiderman story. It felt more akin to the comic books than the original trilogy and for me Andrew Garfield was a better Spiderman than Toby Maguire. Peters development felt more realistic in terms of how he learns to deal with his new found power, although both the relationship with Gwen Stacey and the use of Lizard were under used and almost felt like they were tagged on. Better then the original but overshadowed by the Avenger series of movies. Plus did anyone else notice that the movie was directed by Marc Webb…..very apt name!

DJ speaks rating: 5 out of 10