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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.

Great Freedom

Watching the ways the prison-bound relationships vary in their complications, compromises, and resolutions is one of the more moving aspects of director Sebastian Meise’s film.

By |March 4th, 2022|GLBT, Top Picks|1 Comment

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

Welcome to Weimar–era Berlin, a world of economic instability, wild partying, cabaret performers, rampant sexuality, and where Nazis are beginning to march the streets.

By |March 3rd, 2022|Book adaptation, Germany|0 Comments

Servants

Enter an insular, foreboding world, set largely in a Czechoslovakian seminary in the early 1980s.

By |February 24th, 2022|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Thriller, Top Picks|0 Comments

Strawberry Mansion

A callback to the early to mid-2000s, when Wes Anderson’s popularity was in full swing and films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, and Garden State were the rage.

By |February 17th, 2022|Indie, Sci-fi|0 Comments

Catch the Fair One

A boxer searches for her younger sister, who may have been abducted by a sex-trafficking ring.

By |February 10th, 2022|Crime, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Belle

In its embrace of both fantasy and realism, this anime is very beautiful, with a story line that explicitly winks toward “Beauty and the Beast.”

By |January 13th, 2022|Animated, Sci-fi|0 Comments

The Novice

Both a cautionary tale and a commentary on the current mania for achievement.

By |January 4th, 2022|Drama, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

The Hand of God

Naples is as important to this semi-autobiographical film as its characters and events. It's where the sacred and the profane collide.

By |December 20th, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Top Picks|0 Comments

C’mon C’mon

Mike Mills’s big heart is his greatest strength, but also his greatest weakness, both of which are on display in his new film.

By |December 13th, 2021|Family drama|0 Comments