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About Andrew Plimpton

Andrew Plimpton is a writer living in Western Massachusetts. His plays have been performed at The Tank in New York City; his fiction has appeared in Silo. He was a reader for The Paris Review from 2019 to 2021, and has written for Film Forward since 2018.

The Sparks Brothers

Edgar Wright's documentary inspires nothing so much as a burning desire to cancel all plans and just listen to the band Sparks.

By |June 17th, 2021|Music, Top Picks|0 Comments

Sublet

Eytan Fox’s new film brings us yet another cinematic odd couple, one comprising two contrasting personalities from two different cultures.

By |June 10th, 2021|GLBT|0 Comments

Super Frenchie

For fans of extreme sports, this portrait of skier and base jumper Matthias Giraud should be a fun ride.

By |June 3rd, 2021|Documentary, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

New Order

The dystopian film is best described as a parade of trauma and violence.

By |May 25th, 2021|Thriller|0 Comments

Sequin in a Blue Room

A teenager's life stops and starts relative to his sexual encounters in this intense film driven by the insatiability of his libido.

By |May 20th, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, GLBT|0 Comments

RK/RKAY

The interplay between reality and illusion, namely that of a filmmaker and his invented characters, is the theme of this laid-back comedy.

By |May 13th, 2021|Comedy, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Limbo

On a sparsely populated island off the northwest coast of Scotland, a group of refugees wait for approval of their asylum requests.

By |April 30th, 2021|U. K.|0 Comments

Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street

What this documentary does beautifully is remind us what makes Sesame Street unique.

By |April 23rd, 2021|Documentary|0 Comments

Gunda

The actions in this nontraditional documentary are outwardly simple: viewers observe animals on a farm and in nature living their lives.

By |April 15th, 2021|Documentary|0 Comments