{"id":18616,"date":"2026-05-20T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18616"},"modified":"2026-05-17T08:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:11:33","slug":"nirvanna-the-band-the-show-the-movie-2025-matt-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18616","title":{"rendered":"Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025, Matt Johnson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is going to be a copyright nightmare.  If you&#8217;re watching this in theaters, thank your lucky stars.&#8221;  Annoying handicam fake-doc transforms into a very good <em>Back to the Future<\/em> ripoff.  Narratively goes through great lengths only to loop around itself and accomplish nothing.  I laughed for five straight minutes during the CN Tower lightning rod sequence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/nirvanna2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/calum_marsh\/film\/nirvanna-the-band-the-show-the-movie\/\">Calum Marsh<\/a>:<br \/>\nIt didn\u2019t surprise me to realize that this movie was largely built around unused webseries footage, because they have so much footage and in fact entire scenes and episodes of content that wound up on the cutting room floor. It\u2019s such an incredible, inefficient method of working but it\u2019s the only way to get stuff this good, and it\u2019s a veritable goldmine when combined with their team\u2019s compositing and VFX work, which is peerless at this budget.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/nirvanna1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>The Chronology of Water<\/em> (2025, Kristen Stewart)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new feature of this blog: bonus sub-post about the 130-minute movie I watched for 15 minutes before getting annoyed or exhausted and putting on a genre film of decent length.  Seems very well put together, a fragmented narrative with striking images and upsetting music loops, also seems like a trauma\/abuse story that I don&#8217;t wanna endure for another 115 minutes, hence <em>Nirvanna<\/em>.  <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/josephinegloria\/\">Josefina<\/a> called it &#8220;a better Lynne Ramsay movie than the one Ramsay <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18184\">released<\/a> that same year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is going to be a copyright nightmare. If you&#8217;re watching this in theaters, thank your lucky stars.&#8221; Annoying handicam fake-doc transforms into a very good Back to the Future ripoff. Narratively goes through great lengths only to loop around itself and accomplish nothing. I laughed for five straight minutes during the CN Tower lightning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,391,1864,111],"class_list":["post-18616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-canada","tag-matt-johnson","tag-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18627,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18616\/revisions\/18627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}