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In the midst of March Madness, Movies 101 traditionally entertains a different kind of brain fever: Oscar Mania!

On this week’s special edition of Movies 101, our favorite books-to-movies adaptations. And maybe one or two that rank at the other end of the spectrum.

Movies that transmit powerful emotions comes in many forms, but two main categories are those that trend toward the mysterious and those that dwell in the realm of the intensely realistic. This week Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss two films that portray emotional power in two different ways: Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of the 1946 noir novel “Nightmare Alley,” and writer-director Fran Kranz’s film “Mass,” which is a study of two couples forever connected because of a tragedy.

On this week’s show, Nathan Weinbender, Mary Pat Treuthart and Dan Webster will be discussing three of the five animated films nominated as Best Animated Feature Film of 2021. First up are two Disney offerings, “Encanto” and “Raya and the Last Dragon,” followed by the Sony Pictures film “The Mitchells vs. the Machines.”

We all fear something. Ghosts, serial killers, UFOs, enclosed spaces or – Hitchcock famously – birds. Fear makes for a great movie theme. This week, two films whose narratives depend on inherent human fears: The succinctly titled “X” followed by the Irish feature “You Are Not My Mother.”

On this week’s show, Nathan Weinbender, Mary Pat Treuthart and Dan Webster discuss writer-director Richard Linklater’s work, beginning with a review of his latest film, the animated memoir of 1969 Houston, Texas, titled “Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood.”

We’re still a couple of months from the official start of summer, but that doesn’t mean that summer-type movies aren’t already upon us. This week, the Michelle Yeoh vehicle “Everything Everywhere All at Once” followed by the Agatha Christie adaptation “Death on the Nile.”