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Nirvanna the Band The Show the Movie

Nirvanna the Band the Show The Movie is the feature-length spin-off of the abruptly cancelled, Vice-produced television series; which initially grew from the online brainchild of director Matt Johnson (The Dirties, Operation Avalanche, BlackBerry) and musician/composer Jay McCarrol (The Kid Detective). Just like their former antics on TV, Johnson and McCarrol take big swings with their movie: they’re attempting to project a niche property into the mainstream and hoping the general public will ride along, while also approaching the…

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The Kid Detective

The Kid Detective has done the best job, in recent memory, explaining why a mystery’s leading sleuth is such a sad sack.  The enigmatic and eccentric personality has become such a cliché in the genre, that the audience just expects and accepts the detective to be grizzled, or unhappy, or an unpredictable hot head.  In The Kid Detective, Abe Applebaum (Adam Brody) carries those traits, but writer/director Evan Morgan provides compelling motivation which fuels Brody’s top-form…