Also: My (other) Favorite Films of 2025. If the Oscars can wait, so can I.
The premise of Nirvanna the Band the Show, first seen on YouTube and later Vice, has always been beautifully stupid. Two musicians want to play a show at Toronto’s Rivoli. They never consider contacting the venue directly. Instead, they devise increasingly elaborate plans that they believe will somehow force the club to book them.
That’s the entire idea.
What unfolds from that idea, now somehow also a major motion picture, is one of the strangest and funniest long-running comedy projects of the twenty-first century.