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Filmage offers an entertaining history lesson about how the alt-rock geeks did not quite inherit the earth.
Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter
Overview
Long before Green Day and Blink 182 inflicted punk-rock's puncture wound on the map of mainstream music, the Descendents were at home concocting the perfect mix of pop, angst, love, and coffee. FILMAGE: The Story of DESCENDENTS/ALL follows drummer/square-peg Bill Stevenson and his 'caffeinated retardedness' as he pushes his rotating door of bandmates to 'achieve ALL,' his philosophy of going for greatness at all costs. Stevenson is a force to be reckoned with--not even grapefruit-sized brain tumors can keep him down.
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Top critics, in their words
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Drummer and songwriter Bill Stevenson ... [is] as energetic and emotional in the interview segments as he is in archival performance footage.
Chris Packham, L.A. Weekly
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Behind every pop-punk success story is a debt to the original L.A. bands chronicled in this ingratiating docu.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
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Exhilarating and curiously moving ...
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
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