There are numerous, many fantastic movies to get enthusiastic about seeing subsequent 12 months, however tucked in secure alongside the large price range occasion movies and off-kilter superhero choices, there’s one bonkers indie gem to get actually hyped for.
It’s Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol’s “Nirvanna the Band the Present the Film,” the following step of their two-decade-long odyssey/multimedia mission/very foolish enterprise, a movie so nuts that, when it premiered at SXSW earlier this 12 months, we puzzled how on this planet anybody would even be capable of launch it. Our personal Christian Zilko known as it “an excellent copyright nightmare” in his overview, which is about as excessive of reward as we get round these elements.
Enter Neon, who picked up the movie in March, after which (very properly) took it to the 2025 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, the place it performed to a very happy hometown crowd. For a movie that hinges on landmarks just like the CN Tower and the SkyDome, it’s no shock the native Canadians flipped for it, however we’re betting Johnson and McCarrol will earn a complete raft of newly minted followers when the movie arrives in theaters subsequent February.
So, what’s it about? Laborious to say with out spoiling a few of its finest twists and turns, although we advise eager viewers to make notice of the flip-flopping emblem on the finish of the movie’s first teaser, which fairly clearly (and colorfully!) pays homage to a beloved traditional movie. What have they acquired in frequent? You’ll simply have to attend and see.
Earlier this 12 months, McCarrol and Johnson mirrored on the wild path their mission has taken over time with IndieWire. “I believe one of many entire causes that it’s endured is satirically as a result of we have been simply making it for ourselves. And that forbid us to suppose that anyone else would ever respect it the identical means that we did. So there was no delusions in any way,” Johnson stated. “I bear in mind the stupidest we acquired was when VICE picked it up and we have been going to lastly make it as an actual TV present. I might say that was essentially the most hopeful we have been, that individuals could be like, ‘Wow, persons are actually lastly going to see this present. And so they’re actually going to love it!’ And VICE was out of enterprise in a 12 months and a half.”
Neon will launch “Nirvanna the Band the Present the Film” in theaters on February 13, 2026. Take a look at the movie’s first teaser beneath.
