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AFI Fest 2019
- Event Reviews
- December 2, 2019
For the fifth straight year, Lily and Generoso assess a selection of new features from the eclectic program at AFI FEST, Los Angeles’ most prominent film festival.
AFI Fest 2017
- Event Reviews
- November 29, 2017
AFI Fest 2017 just wrapped up in Hollywood. Lily and Generoso Fierro review the 22 new feature films that they selected from this year’s eclectic festival program.
Brian Wilson: Songwriter 1962-1969
- Screen Reviews
- January 18, 2011
If you think Lawrence of Arabia has too much sand, then you might think this documentary has too much Brian Wilson. Rein in the impulse to fast forward and learn a bunch about the most cerebral Beach Boy.
Slayer: War At The Warfield, Still Reigning, and Live Intrusion
- Screen Reviews
- January 17, 2011
Somebody get Matthew Moyer a towel — he’s been standing in Slayer’s bloody rainstorm again, watching concert DVDs.
Suicidal Tendencies
- Music Reviews
- December 7, 2010
No Mercy Fool/The Suicidal Family (Suicidal). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Xasthur
- Music Reviews
- October 2, 2009
All Reflections Drained (Hydrahead). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Wavves
- Music Reviews
- May 22, 2009
Wavvves (Fat Possum). Review by Matthew Moyer.
The Broken West
- Music Reviews
- May 5, 2009
Now or Heaven (Merge). Review by Andrew Coulon.
Biirdie
- Music Reviews
- April 14, 2008
Catherine Avenue (Love Minus Zero Recordings). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Harlem of the West
- Print Reviews
- April 17, 2006
PBS contributors assemble eyewitness accounts and flash photography to give an overlooked West Coast jazz scene its day in the sun, and their Harlem of the West makes Matthew Moyer a happy kid indeed in the eye candy store.
Lisa Cerbone
- Music Reviews
- May 11, 2004
Ordinary Days (Little Scrubby). Review by Aaron Shaul.
The Fold Compilation
- Music Reviews
- April 15, 2004
Various Artists (Credit). Review by Aaron Shaul.

Smogtown
- Music Reviews
- November 7, 2003
Tales of Gross Pollution (Disaster). Review by James Greene, Jr..
The Drive
- Hollywood Monkey Bad
- December 10, 2002
The journey to japanned begins for Gregory Schaefer, in a U-Haul to L.A., chased by the devil, and in Japan, between showers at McDonald’s.
Don’t Be So Fucking Populated
- Bantam's Don't Be's
- June 27, 2002
Chuck Bantam has got a little piece of advice for old Mother Earth. Just a small, simple request.
The Aqua Velvets
- Music Reviews
- December 18, 2001
Radio Waves (Milan Entertainment). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
A FEEBLE ATTEMPT AT STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS
- Wednesday Again
- March 21, 2000
For a masochist like myself, living in such a sunny climate might be the end of me…..I would start preaching on street-corners, and recruiting young girls to become my henchmen, my right-hand….well, not men, I guess……right-hand girls, yeah, girls…..my right-hand girls in the most ingenious plans ever laid out!

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- Music Reviews
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- Screen Reviews
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- Music Reviews
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- Music Reviews
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- Music Reviews
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- Screen Reviews
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- Music Reviews
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