You Gotta Know to Understand
It started with grunge and ended with the Spice Girls; Lady Di died, Clinton didn't inhale and the All Blacks were poisoned. On screen, Ice TV and Havoc were for the kids, and a grown-up Kiwi cinema delivered a powerful triple punch. David Tua's linguistic jab proved just as memorable, Tem got a geography lesson, and Thingee's eye popped and reverberated around our living rooms. In the backgrounders, Jason Gunn and Paul Casserly look back on their favourite moments from a “big, bold” and “misunderstood” decade.



















