“Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie” is the only movie playing SXSW 2025 that requires 17 years of context to fully appreciate. But man, it’s worth it.
For the uninitiated, Nirvanna the Band couldn’t have less to do with Kurt Cobain. Launched as a webseries in 2008, the ongoing comedy project stars Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol as fictional versions of themselves who are dying to break into the Toronto music scene. Specifically, they’re dying to play a show at a legendary…