An oddly soap opera-esque take on Hitchcock's life that's far too reverential of its subject. It feels like a school report, albeit a "well made" one. With every scene and "addition of a fact" from the reality it is based on, it feels like the screenwriter and director were thinking, "Gosh, how should we add that this happened? OH COOL, WE'LL REFERENCE IT IN DIALOGUE." Nothing felt smooth or fluid. At times, though, it was vapidly entertaining, particularly Mirren's performance.…

The line between mourning and a manifesting sorrow by having those fears is blurred in Alex Withrow's debut "Earrings", a debut short that displays the exuberance for the medium like Bergman and the attention to detail like McQueen. Withrow's short manages t capture the quiet desperation of character studies like von Trier's Melancholia and McQueen's Shame, with the mise-en-scene reminiscent of, again, Bergman. But don't let this lead you to think that his inspirations take over his film completely. On…