Mark de Clive-Lowe witnessed D'Angelo play London's Brixton Academy on Wednesday 19 July 2000.

Matt Heath was in the first band on stage at the first ever Big Day Out in Auckland. The band was called Kid Eternity.

The screening of Sione's Wedding on telly the other night might have been part of the launchpad for this belated sequel to the 2005 local box office champ. But it was also a telling reminder.

One of the best documentaries in last year's film festival, Buck is about Buck Brannaman, who inspired the novel The Horse Whisperer and Robert Redford's film adaptation.

The film is far from hard to follow, but it punishes the least lapse in attention. It's an unlikely thriller: there's no car chase or fistfight and the few shots that are fired are widely spaced.

The roll-out of grunge-era reissues continues with Smashing Pumpkins' debut and their classic sophomore album the latest to resurface.

The newest instalment in the NT Live series, which delivers to the screen recordings of live performances from one of London's best theatres, is a play by John Hodge, who wrote Danny Boyle's early hit films including Trainspotting and Shallow Grave.

David Maclennan instigated a jam session with The Cure at a Wellington practice room on 3 August 1981.

An unashamedly old-fashioned romp through World War I on the back of a horse named Joey, Stephen Spielberg's interpretation of Michael Morpurgo's novel is part sentimental family film and part brutal and grisly war epic.

Martin Scorsese's first 3D film is a mesmerising, enchanting affair based on Brian Selznick's imaginative book The Invention of Hugo Cabret.

Director Gus Van Sant has hit the bullseye in the past with films about teen angst and worse - from Good Will Hunting to Elephant - but this one quite misses the target.

The title makes the heart sink. The American habit of adding "William Shakespeare's" to Romeo and Juliet or specifying "Berlin, Germany" so we won't think they're referring to any of the 21 small towns so named in the US is infuriatingly self-absorbed.