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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.

The Good Boss

A fine and engaging dark comedy of the lying and hypocrisy of the business world.

By |September 1st, 2022|Comedy, Top Picks|0 Comments

Inu-oh

This animated film transports viewers to a time when music was of paramount importance to storytelling.

By |August 11th, 2022|Animated, Musical|0 Comments

Resurrection

A horror film that fully embraces its fairy-tale roots (stories of a boogeyman who devours children) and goes to some wild and grotesque extremes.

By |July 29th, 2022|Horror, Top Picks|0 Comments

The Deer King

A grand sweeping epic fantasy with beautiful animation and many moving parts and levels of intrigue.

By |July 19th, 2022|Animated|0 Comments

A Matter of Trust, Two Sisters and a Husband, We Might as Well Be Dead | Tribeca Festival 2022

Three international selections to keep an eye on.

By |June 30th, 2022|Festivals|0 Comments

Attention Distributors: January; Pink Moon | Tribeca Festival 2022

Two European prize winners from the recent festival.

By |June 29th, 2022|Festivals|0 Comments

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Though supposedly the characters are messy and flawed, the film’s second half feels like a disguised PSA for behaving nice and having functional conversations.

By |June 24th, 2022|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Romantic Comedy|0 Comments

The Innocents

Childhood is a time when boundaries are set and tested. As such, the line between kindness and cruelty can be especially hazy. René Clément’s Forbidden Games (1952) dramatizes two children’s fascination with death, which leads them to kill an animal; Richard Hughes’s brilliant novel A High Wind in Jamaica (1929) views a group of children […]

By |May 12th, 2022|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Horror|0 Comments

Firebird

A gay love story set on an air force base in 1970s Estonia.

By |April 28th, 2022|GLBT|0 Comments