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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.

Agnes

A convent becomes the site of a reported demonic possession.

By |December 9th, 2021|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Horror|0 Comments
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Indian Sweets and Spices

This is not the sort of film in which you forget that you are watching actors.

By |November 19th, 2021|Family drama|0 Comments
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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