Who are the Nuns?

“I’m not sure how I feel about this movie, but I really like the characters and the cinematography. Oh, and the script, the script is really good.” - Suzanne, while watching Brick.

Isn’t that what makes a good movie? Sure there’s more to it than that; good acting, lines we can quote, and maybe a lovable, minority sidekick who says vaguely racist comments, perpetuating the stereotypes we’ve grown to love.

Welcome to Nuns on a Bus. Who are we? What will you find here?

We think that every good endeavor needs a purpose here’s ours: we want to make sure that good movies don’t go unseen. we’ve stumbled across a lot of good movies years after they were released and thought, “How does this happen? How did we miss this movie.”

The answer is simple, no one told us about it. Advertising for a film is one of the most expensive portions of the entire process and as a result it is generally done selectively and briefly. A small film without a huge financial backing requires substantial word of mouth to make an impact. As a result they have a smaller audience. So here we are, the Nuns on a Bus, we will be your word of mouth. We’ll watch every film ever made and review all of them for you. Ok, that might be a bit of stretch, but we’ll watch the ones we can, new and old. We’ll point you to the ones we think you should see and away from the ones that might not be worth your time.

We’re making a lot of promises, so here’s a few more. We promise not to let our personal feelings about actors, directors and producers spoil our reviews. We won’t use phrases like, ‘Worst film, ever’ or ‘Can’t act to save his life.’ or even worse, ‘This is the greatest film of this decade.’ we’ll do our best to be objective when we can and when we can’t, we’ll leave our opinions out of the reviews and put it at the end for film commentary.

So who are we?

We’re film watchers. We want good stories and strong characters delivered by good actors. Everything else is just frosting. We’ve got a broad taste and we’re pretty open-minded. We don’t need happy endings or famous actors. To us films are a lot more about how you feel when you’re done than how much money they rake in.

That’s who we are. The Nuns, Karl and I, will be here, ever week or so letting you know what movies we’ve seen, which ones we loved and which we’ve hated.

I’ll keep my ear to the ground and hope to keep seeing you!

- Josh

“I gave you Jerr to see him eaten, not to see you fed.” - Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Brick