Mother Of It All Movie Club: Oscars Edition with Garrett Bucks

Sarah is joined by Garrett Bucks, founder of The Barnraisers Project and author of the The White Pages and The Right Kind of White, to talk about the movies of 2024 and what they say about gender, parenting, sex, and more. Find out which of the 24 and 39 movies Garrett and Sarah watched (respectively) are their best and worst. Also — why Dune is a boymom movie, why Garrett had to fast-forward The Substance, and why Challengers is this year’s Mamma Mia.

Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly important

• Garrett’s Letterboxd

• Together (the Swedish one)

• Richard Brody’s review of The Brutalist

• Richard Brody’s review of Emilia Pérez

• Lindy West’s Shit Actually

• Babygirl director on Death, Sex, and Money

sarah’s car after watching a certain movie about a tortured male architect. now that’s what i call brutal!