{"id":235387,"date":"2026-01-15T23:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235387\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T23:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T23:03:09","slug":"nirvanna-the-band-the-tv-show-the-movie-trailer-speeds-to-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/235387\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirvanna The Band The TV Show The Movie trailer speeds to 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surviving the pivot from web series to streaming series to feature film, Nirvana The Band presses forward back to the future. The brainchild of BlackBerry star and director Matt Johnson and composer Jay McCarol, the legacy continuation mixes the group\u2019s modest ambitions with a ludicrous sci-fi plotting and anarchic man-on-the-street pranks. Using an RV that would make Doc Brown proud, the band travels to 2008 to make their rockstar dreams come true by playing the local performance space, The Rivoli. It\u2019s both a return to Canada\u2019s American Apparel-laden aughts and the cult comedy group that has improbably spanned several decades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/nirvanna-the-band-the-show-the-movie-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reviewing the movie at SXSW last year<\/a>, critic Katie Rife writes the movie has \u201cmultiple \u2018How did they do that?\u2019 moments\u201d through its Jackass-style, hidden-camera stunts as well as \u201csurprisingly melancholy theme[s] of aging and friendship, as the guys go back in time and interact with the 2008 versions of themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNirvanna The Band The Show The Movie is so affable, so good-natured, so modest\u2014just so gosh-darned charming\u2014that it\u2019s difficult not to crack at least a little bit of a smile while watching it,\u201d Rife concludes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nirvannathebandthe.show\/episodes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Check out the webseries on the Nirvanna website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u200c Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie opens in theaters on February 13.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surviving the pivot from web series to streaming series to feature film, Nirvana The Band presses forward back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-235387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}