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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.

They Say Nothing Stays the Same

This film is shot by Christopher Doyle, the cinematographer most famous for working with Wong Kar-wai and Edward Yang, and it looks incredible.

By |November 12th, 2021|Japanese|0 Comments

The Beta Test

A hotshot Hollywood insider gets in over his head with anonymous sex and logarithms.

By |November 4th, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

Benedict Cumberbatch stars in this dark, strange, and bizarre bio of a cat lover and his wild oscillations of fortune.

By |October 22nd, 2021|Biopic|0 Comments

Lamb

It is through the quiet, accumulation of unsettling details and development of mood that Lamb derives its power.

By |October 14th, 2021|Horror|0 Comments

Freeland

Change has fascinating implications in this stark, moving study of character and a vanishing way of life.

By |October 14th, 2021|Drama|0 Comments

Mass

A fraught meeting between two couples is a belated attempt to make some sense of a school shooting.

By |October 7th, 2021|Drama|0 Comments

The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

This new work from Bill Morrison would not have existed had an Icelandic fishing boat not discovered four reels of 35mm film underwater.

By |September 22nd, 2021|Film History|0 Comments

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

During the pandemic lockdown, filmmakers from all over the world contributed to this anthology. Some of the results are heartening and surprising.

By |September 2nd, 2021|Family drama|0 Comments

The Green Knight

David Lowery's new film takes one of the coziest possible narratives (the quest) and turns it into something strange and disorienting,

By |August 23rd, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments