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From a screening of “Psycho” to “Mommie Dearest” to “Carrie,” the cinemas are spotlighting memorable matriarchs for Mother’s Day and throughout the month of May.

These are Total Film's picks for the best movies of 2021

"Inherent Vice" is a film about a stoner which itself seems stoned. This is just one small part of what makes it distinctive.  Adapted from Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel, the movie has been compared by many to the Coen brothers' "The Big Lebowski," a drug-fueled LA comedy with a similarly labyrinthian mystery (or "mystery") and some shared themes. But "Vice" is a richer, deeper, sweeter, equally funny movie. It owes a great deal to laid-back, character-and-atmosphere driven 1970s L.A. films such as "The Long Goodbye" and "Cisco Pike," but it never makes too big a deal of that lineage. As adapt...

Directed by James Vaughan. SYNOPSIS: Two twenty-somethings from middle class backgrounds stumble into adulthood, with little ambition despite a lack of roadblocks. There are few films with an opening quite so poignantly evocative as Mike Nichols’ 1967 masterpiece The Graduate, in which Dustin Hoffman makes his way through an airport, accompanied by the harmonious melody of The Sound of Silence, by Simon and Garfunkel. There are even fewer films that explore one of the central themes in The Graduate: the theme of Middle Class youth disenfranchisement. Just as Hoffman’s character Ben Brad...

Ron Howard's "Backdraft." Universal Ron Howard's excellent thriller stars Kurt Russell and William Baldwin as firefighter brothers who, despite not getting along, have to work together at the same Chicago firehouse as an arsonist causes chaos throughout the city. "Backdraft" (Available February 1) Ron Howard's excellent thriller stars Kurt Russell and William Baldwin as firefighter brothers who, despite not getting along, have to work together at the same Chicago firehouse as an arsonist causes chaos throughout the city. Advertisement Michael Keaton as Batman. Warner Bros./"Batman" Spend a ...