‘Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie’ Is Meta All the Way Down
Matt Johnson’s goofy Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie is so laden with tricks, gags, and irony that it somehow registers as sincere.
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The Best Films of 2023
Our best films of 2023 include A-listers exploring new ground or new wrinkles in the familiar, lesser-knowns of singularly surprising work, and gut-punch comedies.
Over the Moon with Operation Avalanche’s Filmmakers
Matt Johnson and Matt Miller talk about the long hours and dodged bullets behind the making of Operation Avalanche, a film that’s “like The Dirties on acid.”
This Is the Day: The The – ‘Soul Mining: 30th Anniversary Edition’
Thirty years later, Soul Mining remains The The's most vital work.
Matt & Kim: 7.April.2010 – University of Delaware
Matt & Kim's unconditional enthusiasm and energy left a searing impression on the young audience packed into the Trabant Center.
The High and Low of Black Literature
Opinion is divided about the merits of urban fiction, the pop entertainment for readers more comfortable with the easygoing concoctions of Terry McMillan than with the knottier works of Alice Walker or Ishmael Reed.