Jul 8, 2026 · 57 min · 11 segments
On the July 8, 2026 episode of /Film Weekly, /Film editor Ben Pearson talks about his favorite movie of the year, and then is joined by multiple people to talk about Rick and Morty, present an…
Dan HarmonGuest
Cooper TomlinsonGuestBrad OmanPanelist
Scott MarderGuestSpeaking of Neon, actually, I wanted to take a second to talk about my favorite movie of the year, which is "Nirvana: The Band, The Show, The Movie." And I know that Brad and I had a conversation about it earlier this year when the film came out, and we got into spoilers and featured an interview with Matt Johnson, the director.
But I just wanted to take this opportunity to, again, encourage people to seek this out.
I got, uh, the movie sent to me on Blu-ray, and I'm so happy to have this physical copy of this thing in my hands.
Last night, I dove into some of the bonus features and was pleasantly surprised to find that they're kind of just as shaggy as Matt Johnson and Jay McCarroll are themselves, or at least, uh, the version of them that appears in this particular iteration of this long story that they've been telling.
Um, a lot of these bonus features, there's like a couple animatics and, uh, they feature scenes that seem a little bit longer and slightly different than what's in the movie.
So I appreciated the insight into that particular corner of what their more initial plans were versus what they ended up actually being able to produce.
There's a deleted scene on here.
There's an alternate opening.
They actually have the first episode of "Nirvana: The Band: The Show" that you can watch.
And there's multiple commentaries.
I think my favorite bonus feature might be-- There's a, a featurette called "Figured It Out," and there's also one called "Home Movies." And it's just kind of almost randomly stitched together behind-the-scenes shots.
And a lot of behind-the-scenes material that you see in modern movie releases are super slick and feel like very produced featurettes where you've got talking heads and people are almost reading a teleprompter or something.
It feels very, very controlled.
And as you might expect for a movie that's, uh, kind of as beautifully chaotic as this one, that is not the vibe of the behind-the-scenes materials on this disc.
And those two featurettes that I mentioned, the "Home Movies" and "Figured It Out," I think are my favorite ones because they just give you a fly-on-the-wall perspective of what it was actually like to make this movie.
And I know we say this all the time, that it's a miracle that any movie gets made, and that really is true.
I think for people who are not invested in movies the way that we are at Slashfilm and that you all are as listeners of a movie podcast, it's so easy to take movies for granted.
And seeing real, legitimate behind-the-scenes featurettes that actually give you just a little glimpse of, a little sliver of a glimpse into the amount of work that it takes to actually conceive of and execute something that turns out to be really, really special is just, um, something that I try not to take for granted as a movie lover.
So, uh, anyway, long-winded way of me saying just check out "Nirvana: The Band: The Show, The Movie." I don't even wanna get into any sort of plot details in case somehow, miraculously, you've not been spoiled about this.
Just stumble across the movie and check it out.
Don't read the synopsis if you happen to click on it to rent it or something like that.
I just really think that anybody listening to this show is probably gonna have a lot of fun with the movie.
So the film is called "Nirvana: The Band: The Show, The Movie." And as we mentioned all those months ago, you don't have to know anything about these guys or the show that they were a part of or [chuckles] Nirvana the band.
It actually has nothing to do with the rock band Nirvana.
So, uh, just go in blind and thank us later.
Speaking of Neon, actually, I wanted to take a second to talk about my favorite movie of the year, which is "Nirvana: The Band, The Show, The Movie." And I know that Brad and I had a conversation about it earlier this year when the film came out, and we got into spoilers and featured an interview with Matt Johnson, the director.
But I just wanted to take this opportunity to, again, encourage people to seek this out.
I got, uh, the movie sent to me on Blu-ray, and I'm so happy to have this physical copy of this thing in my hands.
Last night, I dove into some of the bonus features and was pleasantly surprised to find that they're kind of just as shaggy as Matt Johnson and Jay McCarroll are themselves, or at least, uh, the version of them that appears in this particular iteration of this long story that they've been telling.
Um, a lot of these bonus features, there's like a couple animatics and, uh, they feature scenes that seem a little bit longer and slightly different than what's in the movie.
So I appreciated the insight into that particular corner of what their more initial plans were versus what they ended up actually being able to produce.
There's a deleted scene on here.
There's an alternate opening.
They actually have the first episode of "Nirvana: The Band: The Show" that you can watch.
And there's multiple commentaries.
I think my favorite bonus feature might be-- There's a, a featurette called "Figured It Out," and there's also one called "Home Movies." And it's just kind of almost randomly stitched together behind-the-scenes shots.
And a lot of behind-the-scenes material that you see in modern movie releases are super slick and feel like very produced featurettes where you've got talking heads and people are almost reading a teleprompter or something.
It feels very, very controlled.
And as you might expect for a movie that's, uh, kind of as beautifully chaotic as this one, that is not the vibe of the behind-the-scenes materials on this disc.
And those two featurettes that I mentioned, the "Home Movies" and "Figured It Out," I think are my favorite ones because they just give you a fly-on-the-wall perspective of what it was actually like to make this movie.
And I know we say this all the time, that it's a miracle that any movie gets made, and that really is true.
I think for people who are not invested in movies the way that we are at Slashfilm and that you all are as listeners of a movie podcast, it's so easy to take movies for granted.
And seeing real, legitimate behind-the-scenes featurettes that actually give you just a little glimpse of, a little sliver of a glimpse into the amount of work that it takes to actually conceive of and execute something that turns out to be really, really special is just, um, something that I try not to take for granted as a movie lover.
So, uh, anyway, long-winded way of me saying just check out "Nirvana: The Band: The Show, The Movie." I don't even wanna get into any sort of plot details in case somehow, miraculously, you've not been spoiled about this.
Just stumble across the movie and check it out.
Don't read the synopsis if you happen to click on it to rent it or something like that.
I just really think that anybody listening to this show is probably gonna have a lot of fun with the movie.
So the film is called "Nirvana: The Band: The Show, The Movie." And as we mentioned all those months ago, you don't have to know anything about these guys or the show that they were a part of or [chuckles] Nirvana the band.
It actually has nothing to do with the rock band Nirvana.
So, uh, just go in blind and thank us later.
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