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About Andrew Plimpton

Andrew Plimpton is a writer based in Western Massachusetts. His fiction has appeared in Heavy Feather Review, The Dalhousie Review, The Write Launch, and other venues. His plays have been performed at The Tank in New York City, and he has written for Film-Forward since 2018.

Boorman and the Devil

David Kittredge’s documentary brings John Boorman and many of his surviving cast and crew back to revisit the making of a notorious flop.

By |August 25th, 2026|Documentary, Film History|0 Comments

Hanging by a Wire

Much of the footage is appropriately stunning—certainly the vistas fail to disappoint—and many of the near-death feats here are captured with impressive precision.

By |August 25th, 2026|Documentary|0 Comments

Drunken Noodles

The film’s chief strength is the way it captures ennui. Indeed, there are times this seems like a movie mostly preoccupied with waiting.

By |June 25th, 2026|GLBT|0 Comments

Rose of Nevada

Knowing or not knowing its supernatural twist should not ultimately affect the viewer’s enjoyment of this ghostly drama.

By |June 19th, 2026|Fantasy|0 Comments

Underland

One doesn’t need to go far underground before everything becomes strange.

By |June 5th, 2026|Documentary|0 Comments

Time and Water

The documentary is as much about Icelandic writer and poet Andri Snær Magnason’s reflections on his family as it is about Iceland’s environment.

By |May 28th, 2026|Documentary|0 Comments

The Python Hunt

The Python Challenge, a 10-day extravaganza, invites amateurs from all over the country to catch and kill as many Burmese pythons as they can.

By |May 7th, 2026|Documentary|0 Comments

Our Hero, Balthazar

What, in this age of isolation and the male loneliness epidemic, are all the sad young men up to?

By |April 3rd, 2026|Crime, Dark comedy|0 Comments

Yes

It is hard to make films about current events so soon after they have occurred.

By |March 27th, 2026|Israeli, Satire|0 Comments