TT street racing, despite its continuing controversies, is embedded into the sporting culture of my home country, Northern Ireland. Every year avid bike fans will come from all over the world to spectate, participate and experience the legendary North West 200. Yet shamefully it’s not something I’ve personally ever been a huge fan of, mainly because I’ve never taken the time to really get to know the ins and outs of the sport. So, asking me to watch a documentary about the première event of the calendar year, the Isle of Man TT could potentially be asking for trouble. Boy was I wrong…
BY ANDREW MOORE
I wonder how this film might have been envisioned if the Twilight phenomenon hadn’t swept into the hearts of millions of adolescent females across the world. Nevertheless, regardless of how anyone really feels about the story of Edward Cullen and his charmless lover, Bella Swan, it’s happened, it was bloody successful and unfortunately now’s the time for the loosely inspired spin-offs.
“Behind every great man stands a great woman,” goes the saying. Certainly in Evita’s case this is false, simply because Eva Perón is shown to be greater than her husband, Juan. Queen’s Music Society Theatre Group’s production of the musical is one that rises far above their amateur status. 
Source Code is the new film from Duncan Jones, who made his excellent debut two years ago with the powerful Moon. What Duncan Jones managed to do so well with his debut was to make a science fiction film that went back to the roots of the genre, delivering a film in which the futuristic setting is only another means of developing the film’s one character. In this way, the film recalls Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterful Solaris, rather than the dull explosions-in-space and battling-robots films into which the genre descended. With Source Code, Jones continues to bring back the adult sci-fi film, recalling here Terry Gilliam’s bleak masterpiece Twelve Monkeys.
Cave of Forgotten Dreams is the new documentary from Werner Herzog, following closely on from his powerful Grizzly Man and his beautiful Encounters at the End of the World. This time, Herzog has been granted exclusive access to film the recently uncovered cave paintings in the Chauvet cave, which have been estimated to be over 32,000 years old. With a crew of only four people including Herzog himself, the film was shot in 3-D.